vRealize Operations consists of one or more nodes, in a cluster. To create nodes, you use the vSphere client to download and deploy the vRealize Operations virtual machine, once for each cluster node.
Prerequisites
- Verify that you have permissions to deploy OVF templates to the inventory.
- If the ESXi host is part of a cluster, activate DRS in the cluster. If an ESXi host belongs to a non-DRS cluster, all resource pool functions are deactivated.
- If this node is to be the primary node, reserve a static IP address for the virtual machine, and know the associated domain name, domain search path, domain name servers, default gateway, and network mask values.
Plan to keep the IP address because it is difficult to change the address after installation.
- If this node is to be a data node that will become the HA/CA replica node, reserve a static IP address for the virtual machine, and store the associated domain name, domain search path, domain name servers, default gateway, and network mask values for later use.
In addition, familiarize yourself with HA node placement as described in About vRealize Operations High Availability and CA node allocation as described in About vRealize Operations Manager Continuous Availability .
- Plan your domain and machine naming so that the deployed virtual machine name begins and ends with an alphabet (a–z) or digit (0–9) characters, and will only contain alphabet, digit, or hyphen (-) characters. The underscore character (_) must not appear in the host name or anywhere in the fully qualified domain name (FQDN).
Plan to keep the name because it is difficult to change the name after installation.
For more information, review the host name specifications from the Internet Engineering Task Force. See www.ietf.org.
- Plan node placement and networking to meet the requirements described in General vRealize Operations Cluster Node Requirements and vRealize Operations Cluster Node Networking Requirements.
- If you expect the vRealize Operations cluster to use IPv6 addresses, review the IPv6 limitations described in Using IPv6 with vRealize Operations.
- Download the vRealize Operations .ova file to a location that is accessible to the vSphere client.
- If you download the virtual machine and the file extension is .tar, change the file extension to .ova.
- Verify that you are connected to a vCenter Server system with a vSphere client, and log in to the vSphere client.
Do not deploy vRealize Operations from an ESXi host. Deploy only from vCenter Server.
Procedure
What to do next
Use a Web browser client to configure a newly added node as the vRealize Operations primary node, a data node, or a high availability primary replica node. The primary node is required first.