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Perform a Partial Bring-up of
Last Updated January 22, 2025

You perform a partial bring-up to enable the recovery of the management domain vSAN cluster using a temporary vCenter Server instance.
The
deployment process will finish after deploying vCenter Server.

UI Procedure

Follow the
VMware Cloud Foundation Deployment Guide
 for your
version using the modified bring-up JSON file or deployment parameters workbook.

PowerShell Procedure

  1. Start PowerShell.
  2. Replace the values in the sample code with your values and run the commands in the PowerShell console.
    $extractedSDDCDataFile = ".\extracted-sddc-data.json"
$tempVcenterIp ="172.17.31.170"
$tempVcenterHostname ="sfo-m01-vc02"
$localUserPassword ="VMw@re1!VMw@re1!"
$rootUserPassword ="VMw@re1!"
$basicAuthUserPassword ="VMw@re1!"
$vcfUserPassword ="VMw@re1!"
$transportVlanId ="2288"
$mgmtVcenterServerSize ="small"
$cloudBuilderFQDN = sfo-cb01.sfo.rainpole.io
$cloudBuilderAdminUserPassword = "VMw@re1!"
  3. Generate a partial bring-up JSON file by running the command in the PowerShell console. When prompted, select the physical NICs to be assigned to each distributed switch.
    New-ReconstructedPartialBringupJsonSpec -extractedSDDCDataFile ".\extracted-sddc-data.json" -tempVcenterIp $tempVcenterIp -tempVcenterHostname $tempVcenterHostname -vcfLocalUserPassword $localUserPassword -vcfRootUserPassword $rootUserPassword -vcfRestApiPassword $basicAuthUserPassword -vcfSecondUserPassword $vcfUserPassword -transportVlanId $transportVlanId -dedupEnabled $false -vcenterServerSize $mgmtVcenterServerSize
  4. Connect to VMware Cloud Builder by running the command in the PowerShell console.
    Connect-VcfCloudBuilderServer -server sfo-cb01.sfo.rainpole.io -User 'admin' -Password $cloudBuilderAdminUserPassword
  5. Validate the bring-up JSON file on VMware Cloud Builder by running the command in the PowerShell console.
    $extractedSDDCDataFile = "F:\sddc-manager-backup\extracted-sddc-data.json"
$partialBringupSpecFile = (($extractedSddcData.workloadDomains | Where-Object {$_.domainType -eq "MANAGEMENT"}).domainName + "-partial-bringup-spec.json")
$cloudBuilderFQDN = "sfo-cb01.sfo.rainpole.io"
$cloudBuilderAdminUserPassword = "VMw@re1!VMw@re1!"

New-PartialManagementDomainDeployment -partialBringupSpecFile $partialBringupSpecFile -extractedSDDCDataFile $extractedSDDCDataFile -cloudBuilderFQDN $cloudBuilderFQDN -cloudBuilderAdminUserPassword $cloudBuilderAdminUserPassword
  6. Monitor the bring-up progress in the VMware Cloud Builder UI.

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