Prepare ESXi Hosts for VMware Cloud Foundation
Before you can begin the process of deploying
VMware
Cloud Foundation
you must prepare the ESXi
hosts that will form the management domain. To
create a new VI workload domain, you must also prepare the ESXi
hosts in advance.The management domain requires a minimum of four Preparing
the
ESXi
hosts. VI workload domain, you must prepare a minimum of
three ESXi
hosts.If you are preparing ESXi hosts
for a vSphere cluster using NFS, VMFS on FC, or vVols as principal storage, and
the hosts will be added to a VI workload domain using vSphere Lifecycle Manager
images as the update method, then only two hosts are required.
ESXi
hosts involves installing
the correct version of ESXi
and
performing some basic configuration tasks. VMware
Cloud Foundation
supports two methods for preparing these
ESXi
hosts, either interactively
or through the use of the VMware Imaging
Appliance service
(VIA) which is bundled within VMware Cloud Builder
. For the supported
ESXi
version, see the Bill of
Materials (BOM) section of the VMware Cloud Foundation Release Notes
.