To view and configure products that were selected during environment creation, use vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager.

Procedure

  • ♦ Under the Product Details, select products for a new installation.
    Product Function
    vRealize Automation
    1. To monitor health of vRealize Automation, select the Monitor with vRealize Operations Manager check box.
    2. To manage the workload using load balancer and reclaim unused resources from the resource pool, select the Workload Placement and Reclamation check box.
      Note: This is only available for a new installation where in vRealize Operations Manager monitors health of vRealize Automation. Inter-product configuration is not supported for an existing environment.

      If vRealize Operations Manager is not present, then you can integrate the products outside of vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager.

      Cross-product integration for vRealize Automation with vRealize Operations Manager is not applicable for an import of vRealize Automation. This option is only applicable if there is a new installation of vRealize Automation.

      You can also perform cross-product configuration when vRealize Automation is the only product and vRealize Operations Manager is a part of an environment or when vRealize Automation is deployed with import or a new install of vRealize Operations Manager.

      Note: For a newly installed vRealize Automation, select the Configure internal pods and service subsets checkbox, and then enter a K8 Cluster IP Range and K8 Service IP Range.
    3. Select the product certificate from the drop-down menu.
    4. (Optional) Select ON or OFF to enable or deactivate the FIPS compliance mode.
    5. Select the Applicable Time Sync mode.
    6. Select the Time Server (NTP). For more information, see Configure NTP servers.
    7. If you want to configure cluster virtual IPs, then select the Yes or No options.
    8. (Optional) Click Anti-Affinity / Affinity Rule check box to create host rules in the vCenter for each deployed VM.
    Note: For more information on database creation, see Create a new private cloud environment by using the installation wizard.
    SaltStack Config
    1. For SaltStack Config, select the Tenant ID from the drop-down menu under Product Properties.
    2. For vSaltStack Config, enter the VM name, FQDN and Virtual IP Address under Components.
    Note:
    • For SaltStack Config, you can only perform a single node SaltStack Config installation at a time. For vRealize Automation deployment along with SaltStack Config, the tenant ID is selected by default. Any additional SaltStack Config deployment can be performed based on the tenant as organic growth.
    • Federal Information Processing Standard 140-2 Support (FIPS) is supported for SaltStack Config.
    vRealize Business for Cloud
    1. Under Product Properties section, enter the VM Name, Hostname, and IP Address.
    vRealize Log Insight
    Note: Federal Information Processing Standard 140-2 Support (FIPS) is supported for vRealize Log Insight.
    1. Select the node size from the drop-down menu.
    2. (Optional) Select ON or OFF to enable or deactivate the FIPS compliance mode.
    3. Under Integrated Load Balance Configuration, if you select the Configure Cluster Virtual IPs, enter the FQDN and Virtual IP Address.
    4. To add more node, click ADD NODE.
    5. Select the Applicable Time Sync Mode.
    6. Under components, enter the vRLI primary node details.
    7. (Optional) Click Anti-Affinity / Affinity Rule check box to create host rules in the vCenter for each deployed VM.
    8. (Optional) Click Add Components to configure additional settings.
    9. Enter the required fields.
    vRealize Operations Manager
    Note: Federal Information Processing Standard 140-2 Support (FIPS) is supported for vRealize Log Insight.
    1. Under Product Properties, select the Disable TLS version from the drop-down menu.
    2. (Optional) Select ON or OFF to enable or deactivate the FIPS compliance mode.
    3. Select the Certificate from the drop-down menu.
    4. (Optional) Click Anti-Affinity / Affinity Rule check box to create host rules in the vCenter for each deployed VM.
    5. Add the Product Password.
    6. (Optional) Click Integrate with Identity Manager check box.
    7. Select the Time Sync Mode.
    8. For continuous availability-based deployment, under Components, enter the Infrastructure and Network details for the Witness Domain.
    9. For Continous Availability (CA) based deployment, enter the Infrastructure and Network details for Fault Domain 1 and Fault Domain 2.
    10. If you want to add additional data nodes for a cluster, click the Add Components tab.
      Note: If you select Use Global Configuration, the field data is populated based on the information provided in the Infrastructure tab. You can select this option for Witness Domain, Fault Domain 1, or Fault Domain 2. Ensure that each domain is in different physical location so that if one fault domain fails, nodes from the other fault domain remains active.
    11. If you want to add remote collectors, click Add Collector Group, and then add the details for the new collector nodes.
    vRealize Network Insight
    1. Under the Product Properties, select the node size from the drop-down menu.
    2. Select the applicable Time Sync Mode.
    3. Under components, enter the platform and collector details for vRealize Network Insight.
    4. (Optional) Click Anti-Affinity / Affinity Rule check box to create host rules in the vCenter for each deployed VM.
    vRealize Orchestrator
    1. Under the Product Properties, select ON or OFF to enable or deactivate the FIPS compliance mode.
    2. Select the Certificate from the drop-down menu.
    3. Add the Product Password.
    4. Select the applicable Time Sync Mode.
    5. For a standard deployment, enter the host name and IP address under Components.
    6. Under Cluster Virtual IP, enter the load balancer host FQDN for the cluster deployment.
    7. Under Components, enter the host name and IP address for the primary and secondary nodes.
    VMware Workspace ONE Access
    1. Under the Product Properties, select the certificate from drop-down menu.
    2. Select the admin password from the locker.
    3. Specify the default configuration admin user name and password. This configuration is created as local user in VMware Workspace ONE Access and is used for vRealize Suite product integration.
    4. Check Sync Group Members. When enabled, members of the groups are synced from the active directory. When this is deactivated, group names are synced to the directory, but members of the group are not synced.
    5. For a cluster deployment, under Cluster Virtual IP, enter Cluster VIP FQDN. This setting is used to load balance the application.
    6. For a cluster deployment, enter the database IP address that is used internally for proxy access to the primary postgres database.
      Note: This is not same as the address used to load-balance the application and the IP address should be free and available.
    7. Under Components, enter the VMware Workspace ONE Access single or cluster node details.