VVD on VxRail – Shared Edge & Compute Domain (External vCenter Installation)

July 18, 2018July 18, 2018 David Ring VMware, VxRAIL External vCenter, Shared Edge & Compute Domain, VMware Validated Designs, VVD, VVD on VxRail, VxRAIL

Note: this is an example for reference only please use the VxRail ‘External vCenter’ installation procedures provided by Dell EMC.

The following will require an understanding of the VVD on VxRAIL design for which all associated documentation can be found here:

VMware Validated Design 4.2 on VxRail Deployment Guides

This post details how to install a VxRail appliance leveraging an external vCenter server, for example this is the case when you wish to deploy a VVD on VxRail solution where the second VxRail instance used for the Shared Edge and Compute Domain (Workload Domain) requires the use of an external vCenter (vCenter is deployed on the Management Domain VxRail Appliance). This process is strictly for the workload domain and differs from the procedure used to deploy the first Management Domain VxRail Appliance. For more information on the architecture of VVD on VxRail please check out this cool lightboard video from Jason:

VVD for SDDC on VxRail Lightboard Overview

To begin you will need to have the Shared Edge and Compute Domain (Workload Domain) vCenter deployed on the management VxRAIL Appliance. Continue reading →

VMware VVD 4.2 – BOM

July 6, 2018July 6, 2018 David Ring VMware, VxRAIL 4.2, BOM, RELEASE NOTES, VMWARE, VVD

The following is a list of all the components and their versions as per VMware Validated Design 4.2.

Note the list below can be officially found @VMware VVD 4.2 Release Notes Continue reading →

vCenter VCSA 6.5 – Repoint to New PSC

June 7, 2018June 7, 2018 David Ring VMware, VxRAIL FQDN, LOAD BALANCER, PSC, REPOINT, VVD, VxRAIL

Please also see related post:

VCSA 6.0U2 Lookup SSO Domain Name & Site Name

The following details how to repoint a vCenter VCSA using an external PSC within the same site to a different PSC FQDN. One reason for completing such a task is in the event of your active PSC failing you can simply repoint VC to a second PSC in the same site. The reason I completed such a task was part of a VxRAIL VVD deployment leveraging a load balanced PSC config which required to repoint the VxRAIL management VC to the LB FQDN.

If you wish to confirm the current configuration status of PSC & VC simply navigate via the Web Client:

Home->Admin->System Config->Nodes->Objects

vcsarepoint0 Continue reading →