VMware Cloud Foundation 4.5

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Perform a Partial Bring-up of
VMware Cloud Foundation

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

UI Procedure

Follow the
VMware Cloud Foundation Deployment Guide
 for your
VMware Cloud Foundation
 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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