Administering VCF (Chap 1-2) PDF

VMware Software Components Deployed by VMware Cloud Foundation VMware Cloud Foundation is designed and built to deploy specific VMware products using the SDDC Manager appliance. For the exact version numbers of the VMware products that are supported, refer to the Release Notes document for your VMwa...

VMware Software Components Deployed by VMware Cloud Foundation VMware Cloud Foundation is designed and built to deploy specific VMware products using the SDDC Manager appliance. For the exact version numbers of the VMware products that are supported, refer to the Release Notes document for your VMware Cloud Foundation version on VMware Docs. If the system has been updated after the initial bring-up process using the lifecycle management features, see "View Upgrade History" in the VMware Cloud Foundation Lifecycle Management Guide for details on how to view the versions of the VMware software components that are running in your VMware Cloud Foundation instance. You can find product-specific documentation for the following VMware software products and components at VMware Docs: vSphere (vCenter Server and ESXi) VMware vSAN VMware NSX VMware Aria Suite Web Interfaces Used to Administer VMware Cloud Foundation SDDC Manager provides a web-based user interface where you can manage your VMware Cloud Foundation instance. This user interface provides centralized access to and an integrated view of the physical and virtual infrastructure of your system. In addition to using the SDDC Manager UI, you can use the following user interfaces for administration tasks involving their associated VMware software components that are part of a VMware Cloud Foundation instance. All of these interfaces run in a web browser, and you can launch them from within the SDDC Manager UI. VMware SDDC Web Interfaces Launch Link Location in the SDDC Manager UI vSphere Client 1. In the navigation pane, click Inventory > Workload Domains. 2. Click View Details for a workload domain. 3. In the Domain column, click the domain name. 4. Click the Services tab. 5. Click the vCenter Server launch link. NSX Manager UI 1. In the navigation pane, click Inventory > Workload Domains. 2. Click View Details for a workload domain. 3. In the Domain column, click the domain name. 4. Click the Services tab. 5. Click the NSX Cluster launch link. VMware Host Client 1. In the navigation pane, click Inventory > Hosts.. 2. In the FQDN column, click the host FQDN. 3. Click Actions > Open in VMware Host Client. Getting Started with SDDC Manager You use SDDC Manager to perform administration tasks on your VMware Cloud Foundation instance. The SDDC Manager UI provides an integrated view of the physical and virtual infrastructure and centralized access to manage the physical and logical resources. You work with the SDDC Manager UI by loading it in a web browser. For the list of supported browsers and versions, see the Release Notes. Log in to the SDDC Manager User Interface Connect to the SDDC Manager appliance by logging into the SDDC Manager UI using a supported web browser. Prerequisites To log in, you need the SDDC Manager IP address or FQDN and the password for the single-sign on user (for example [email protected] ). You added this information to the deployment parameter workbook before bring-up. Procedure 1. In a web browser, type one of the following. o https:// FQDN where FQDN is the fully-qualified domain name of the SDDC Manager appliance. o https:// IP_address where IP_address is the IP address of the SDDC Manager appliance. 2. Log in to the SDDC Manager UI with vCenter Server Single Sign-On user credentials. Results You are logged in to SDDC Manager UI and the Dashboard page appears in the web browser. Guided SDDC Manager Onboarding VMware Cloud Foundation includes an onboarding dashboard to help you with configuring a healthy SDDC Manager environment. This dashboard appears when you log into SDDC Manager. It provides a walk-through for initial configuration, including the recommended order for completing each task. After completing the walk-through, a banner at the top of the screen offers a tour of the SDDC Manager UI. You can skip sections and exit out of the guided setup at any point. This dashboard automatically shows unless you click "Don't show onboarding screen again" and close the page. Clicking this option also prevents the optional guided tour from automatically displaying in the future. Use the Help Icon in the upper-right corner of the page to later access the onboarding dashboard and guided tour. Tour of the SDDC Manager User Interface The SDDC Manager UI provides a single point of control for managing and monitoring your VMware Cloud Foundation instance and for provisioning workload domains. You use the navigation bar to move between the main areas of the user interface. Navigation Bar The navigation bar is available on the left side of the interface and provides a hierarchy for navigating to the corresponding pages. Category Functional Areas Dashboard The Dashboard provides the high-level administrative view for SDDC Manager in the form of widgets. There are widgets for Solutions; Workload Domains; Host Types and Usage; Ongoing and Scheduled Updates; Update History; CPU, Memory, Storage Usage; and Recent Tasks. You can control the widgets that are displayed and how they are arranged on the dashboard. To rearrange widgets, click the heading of the widget and drag it to the desired position. To hide a widget, hover the mouse anywhere over the widget to reveal the X in the upper- right corner, and click the X. To add a widget, click the three dots in the upper right corner of the page and select Add New Widgets. This displays all hidden widgets. Select a widget and click Add. Solutions Solutions include the following section: Kubernetes - Workload Management allows you to start a Workload Management deployment and view Workload Management cluster details. Inventory Inventory includes the following sections: Workload Domains takes you to the Workload Domains page, which displays and provides access to all workload domains. This page includes summary information about all workload domains, including domain type, storage usage, configuration status, owner, clusters, hosts and update availability. It also displays CPU, memory, and storage utilization for each workload domain, and collectively across all domains. Hosts takes you to the Hosts page, which displays and provides access to current hosts and controls for managing hosts. This page includes detailed information about all hosts, including FQDN, host IP, network pool, configuration status, host state, cluster, and storage type. It also displays CPU and memory utilization for each host, and collectively across all hosts. Lifecycle Lifecycle Management includes the following sections: Management Release Versions displays the versions in your environment and the associated component versions in that release. Bundle Management displays the available install, update, and upgrade bundles for your environment, and your bundle download history. Note: To access bundles, you must be logged in to your Broadcom Support Portal account through the Administration > Depot Settings page. Image Management allows you to import a vSphere Lifecycle Manager cluster image from vCenter Server and view the available images. This is an alternative way of managing the life cycle of ESXi hosts. Administration Administration includes the following sections: Network Settings allows you to configure, view, and manage network pool settings. You can create new network pools, and view and modify existing network pools. You can also use Network Settings to update the DNS and NTP servers that VMware Cloud Foundation uses. Storage Settings allows you to add new VASA providers, view, edit, and delete existing VASA providers. Licensing allows you to manage VMware product licenses. You can also add licenses for the component products in your VMware Cloud Foundation deployment. Single Sign On allows you to manage VMware Cloud Foundation users and groups, including adding users and groups and assigning roles. You can also configure identity providers for VMware Cloud Foundation. Proxy Settings allows you to configure a proxy server to download install and upgrade bundles from the VMware Depot. Depot Settings allows you to log in to your Broadcom Support Portal account to download install and upgrade bundles. VMware Aria Suite allows you to deploy VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle and configure connections between workload domains and VMware Aria Suite products.  Category Functional Areas Backup allows you to register an external SFTP server with SDDC Manager for backing up SDDC Manager and NSX Managers. You can also configure the backup schedule for SDDC Manager. VMware CEIP to join or leave the VMware Customer Experience Improvement Program. Security Password Management allows password management actions, such as rotation, updates and remediation. Certificate Authority allows you to integrate with your Microsoft Certificate Authority Server. Developer The VMware Cloud Foundation Developer Center includes the following sections: Center Overview: API reference documentation. Includes information and steps for all the Public APIs supported by VMware Cloud Foundation. API Explorer: Lists the APIs and allows you to invoke them directly on your VMware Cloud Foundation system. Log out of the SDDC Manager User Interface Log out of the SDDC Manager UI when you have completed your tasks. Procedure 1. In the SDDC Manager UI, click the logged-in account name in the upper right corner. 2. Click Log out.