VMware Cloud Foundation 4.5

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Modify the
VMware Cloud Builder
 Workflow for a Partial Bring-up of
VMware Cloud Foundation

To recover the management domain of
VMware Cloud Foundation
, you use
VMware Cloud Builder
 to perform a partial bring-up.

UI Procedure

  1. Open an SSH connection to the
    VMware Cloud Builder
     appliance and change to
    root
     user.
    ssh admin@cloudbuilder
su -
  2. Go to the directory that contains the workflow configuration files.
    cd /opt/vmware/bringup/webapps/bringup-app/conf/workflowconfig/
  3. Make a backup copy of the workflow file and create an empty workflow file.
    cp workflowspec-ems.json workflowspec-ems.json.backup
rm workflowspec-ems.json
touch workflowspec-ems.json
chown vcf_bringup:vcf workflowspec-ems.json
chmod 740 workflowspec-ems.json
  4. Edit the workflow file.
    1. Open the file for editing.
      vi workflowspec-ems.json
    2. Paste the following contents into the newly created
      workflowspec-ems.json
      {
  "state": "Processing",
  "name": "bring-up-Ems",
  "description": "bring-up",
  "inputs": {},
  "outputs": {},
  "statetransitions": [
    {
      "Action": "RegisterbringupDeploymentForCEIP"
    },
    {
      "Action": "ValidateThumbprints"
    },
    {
      "Action": "TrustCertificates"
    },
    {
      "Action": "ImportSSHKeys"
    },
    {
      "Action": "InitialEnvironmentSetup"
    },
    {
      "Action": "VCDeployment"
    },
    {
      "Action": "ManagementClusterContractConfiguration",
      "OutputMap": {
        "clusterMoid": "clusterMoid",
        "clusterName": "clusterName"
      }
    },
    {
      "Action": "ManagementClusterConfiguration"
    },
    {
      "Action": "EnableVsanDedupOnCluster"
    },
    {
      "Action": "PostManagementClusterConfiguration"
    },
    {
      "Action": "EnableVsphereClusterServices",
      "InputMap": {
        "clusterMoid": "clusterMoid"
      }
    },
    {
      "Action": "ApplyEsxLicense"
    },
    {
      "Action": "EnableVsanMonitoring",
      "InputMap": {
        "clusterMoid": "clusterMoid"
      }
    },
    {
      "Action": "VCenterServiceAccountsConfiguration",
      "OutputMap": {
        "vcenterServiceAccount": "vcenterServiceAccount",
        "nsxtVcenterServiceAccount": "nsxtVcenterServiceAccount"
      }
    }
 ]
}
    3. Save your changes and exit the editor.

PowerShell Procedure

  1. Start Windows PowerShell.
  2. Replace the values in the sample code with values from your
    and run the commands in the PowerShell console.
    $extractedSDDCDataFile = ".\extracted-sddc-data.json"
$cloudBuilderFQDN = "sfo-cb01.sfo.rainpole.io" $cloudBuilderAdminUserPassword = "VMw@re1!"
$cloudBuilderRootUserPassword = "VMw@re1!"
  3. Perform the configuration by running the command in the PowerShell console.
    New-PrepareforPartialBringup -extractedSDDCDataFile $extractedSDDCDataFile -cloudBuilderFQDN $cloudBuilderFQDN -cloudBuilderAdminUserPassword $cloudBuilderAdminUserPassword -cloudBuilderRootUserPassword $cloudBuilderRootUserPassword

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