Deploy Your Workloads
To deploy your workloads, you
must first connect
to vCenter through VMware Cloud on Dell EMC Console and then add
pre-configured virtual machines or vApps to your
vCenter
Server
by deploying an OVF or OVA template from a local file system or
from a URL. Some of the pages in the
Deploy OVF Template
wizard appear only if the OVF template
that you deploy requires additional customization, contains deployment options, or
has one or multiple vService dependencies.- Log in to vCenter from theVMware Cloud on DellConsole. See connect to vCenter through VMware Cloud on Dell EMC Console.
- Right-click any inventory object that is a valid parent object of a virtual machine, such as a data center, folder, cluster, resource pool, or host, and selectDeploy OVF Template.TheDeploy OVF Templatewizard opens.
- On theSelect an OVF templatepage, specify the location of the source OVF or OVA template and clickNext.OptionActionURLType a URL to an OVF or OVA template located on the Internet. Supported URL sources are HTTP and HTTPS.Example: Search for VMware Photon and click Photon OS - VMware® Open Source Software in an Internet search engine. Download the OVA with virtual hardware v11 template from the Photon Open Source Program Office page.Local fileClickBrowseand select all the files associated with an OVF template or OVA file. This includes files such as.ovf,.vmdk, etc. If you do not select all the required files, a warning message displays.
- On theSelect a name and folderpage, enter a unique name for the virtual machine or vApp, select a deployment location, and clickNext.The default name for the virtual machine is the same as the name of the selected OVF or OVA template. If you change the default name, choose a name that is unique within eachvCenter Servervirtual machine folder.The default deployment location for the virtual machine is the inventory object where you started the wizard.
- On theSelect a compute resourcepage, select a resource where to run the deployed VM template, and clickNext.
- On theReview detailspage, verify the OVF or OVA template details and clickNext.OptionDescriptionPublisherPublisher of the OVF or OVA template, if a certificate included in the OVF or OVA template file specifies a publisher.Download sizeSize of the OVF or OVA file.Size on diskSize on disk after you deploy the OVF or OVA template.
- On theConfigurationpage, select a deployment configuration and clickNext.
- On theSelect storagepage, define where and how to store the files for the deployed OVF or OVA template.
- Select the disk format for the virtual machine virtual disks.FormatDescriptionThick Provision Lazy ZeroedCreates a virtual disk in a default thick format. Space required for the virtual disk is allocated when the virtual disk is created. Data remaining on the physical device is not erased during creation, but is zeroed out later, on demand, on first write from the virtual machine.Thick Provision Eager ZeroedA type of thick virtual disk that supports clustering features such as Fault tolerance. Space required for the virtual disk is allocated at creation time. In contrast to the flat file format (-flat.vmdk), the data remaining on the physical device is zeroed out when the virtual disk is created. It might take much longer to create disks in this format than to create other types of disks.Thin ProvisionUse this format to save storage space. For the thin disk, you provision as much datastore space as the disk requires based on the value that you enter for the disk size. However, the thin disk starts small and at first, uses only as much datastore space as the disk needs for its initial operations.
- Select a VM Storage Policy.This option is available only if storage policies are enabled on the destination resource.
- Enable theShow datastores from Storage DRS clusterscheck box to choose individual datastores from Storage DRS clusters for the initial placement of the virtual machine.
- Select a datastore to store the deployed OVF or OVA template.The configuration file and virtual disk files are stored on the datastore. Select a datastore large enough to accommodate the virtual machine or vApp and all associated virtual disk files.
If you want to use the API calls to deploy an OVF template that contains vPMem hard disks and that has been exported from a content library, consult https://kb.vmware.com/kb/52370. - On theSelect networkspage, select a source network and map it to a destination network. ClickNext.The Source Network column lists all networks that are defined in the OVF or OVA template.
- On theCustomize templatepage, customize the deployment properties of the OVF template and clickNext.
- On thevService bindingspage, select a binding service provider and clickNext.
- On theReady to completepage, review the page and clickFinish.
A new task for creating the virtual
machine appears in the Recent Tasks pane. After the task finishes, the new virtual
machine is created on the selected resource.