Add a vCenter to a VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle data center
vCenter
to a VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle
data centerAdd a
vCenter
to a data center before using the
vCenter
to create a private cloud
environment in VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle
. Ensure that you have the
vCenter
fully qualified domain name, user
name, and password. - On the left pane, clickDatacenters.
- To add avCenter, on theDatacenterspage, click+ Addfor thevCenter.
- Enter thevCenterNameandvCenter FQDN.
- ClickSelect Credentialsfor thevCenter.
- You can either search for an existingvCentercredentials or add new credentials using the + sign .
- Click the + sign on the right corner to assign a password for the selectedvCentercredential.
- Enter the Password details and clickAdd.
- Enter thevCenterUser Namefor thevCenter.You should have the requiredvCenterprivileges.
- Select thevCenterType.
- Management: All VMware SDDC Suite products are managed by thisvCentertype.
- Workload: All the payload or business related VMs are managed by thisvCentertype.
- Consolidated Management and Workload: Is avCentertype, where both VMware SDDC Suite products and payload VMs are managed together.
ThevCentertype selection is used only for classification; the setting has no associated product functionality. - ClickValidateandSavethe changes.
- To importvCenterinstances, clickImport.
- Select the .CSV file and clickImport. You can upload only one file at a time for a bulk import ofvCenterinstances in a selected data center.
- ClickSubmit.
Go to the
Requests
page to see
the status of this request. When the status is Completed
, you can
use this vCenter
to create
environments.