Users Guide

Management Workload tab

License keys are required for the following items:

• ESXi hosts

• vSAN

• vCenter

• NSX-T

• SDDC Manager Appliance

Users and Groups tab

In the Users and Groups tab, you can set the passwords for your initial Cloud Foundation components.

CAUTION: Do not make a mistake on this page because if any of the passwords do not meet the indicated specifications,

you must redeploy your Cloud Builder VM, unless you elected to create a snapshot after you created your VM.

NOTE: Minimum password length should be 12 characters for NSX controllers.

Hosts and Networks tab

In the Hosts and Networks tab, perform the following steps:

• Specify the VLAN IDs, subnets, gateways, and MTU for the networks that are used for the four required Cloud Foundation networks.

○ The MTU value should be the MTU size that can be tested during validation. For an actual MTU value of 9000 set this value to

8972

• Specify the management IP addresses of the deployed hosts which are on the Cloud Foundation management VLAN.

• Specify the range of IP addresses for both the vSAN and vMotion networks.

• Host names that you enter in the Management Domain ESXi Hosts section are also auto-populated in the ESXi Host column of

the ESXi Host Security Thumbprint section.

By default, use of DSA fingerprints as a more secure method to validate a host's authenticity is optional and disabled. Unique fingerprints

are automatically generated on each host during installation. You can view the fingerprints using the DCUI under View Support

Information. Due to the complexity of fingerprints, it is easier to access the hosts using SSH where they can be copied and pasted into

the cloud builder deployment parameter sheet. Change the Validate ESXi Thumbprints option to Yes to enable fingerprint validation.

Deploy Parameters tab

The Deploy Parameters tab contains all the IP addresses and hostnames that must be added to DNS.

• All the hostnames must be configured for forward and reverse look-ups.

• Test all the hostnames before attempting validation.

• Ensure that all the values provided are consistent with the values used to deploy the Cloud Builder VM.

• The NTP server would have already been tested as the ESXi hosts have already been configured to this same NTP server(s).

• Change the hostnames that are listed and the domain that meets the customer required specifications.

• For a simplified network installation where a multi-tiered BGP environment is not available make sure that field K27 is set to No.

Run Cloud Builder Deploy SDDC

About this task

Complete the following steps to launch the Cloud Builder web interface:

Steps

1. Turn on Cloud Builder VM.

2. The VM must finish booting up and load the application stack.

3. Using a web browser, go to the Cloud Builder web interface at https://<Cloud Builder IP Address>.

VCF Deployment using Cloud Builder