Add Virtual Machines to the Management
Domain
If you deployed
VMware Cloud Foundation
using a consolidated architecture,
you can deploy user virtual machines to the management domain. To prevent resource conflicts
between the VMware Cloud Foundation
management components, these
additional virtual machines should be added to the resource pool created for this purpose
during bring-up (the Resource Pool User VM value in the deployment parameter workbook). You must be careful when adding virtual
machines to the management domain. You do not want to consume excessive resources
that would obstruct standard management operations. Excess capacity consumption can
prevent successful virtual machine fail overs in the event of a host failure or
maintenance action.
You can add capacity
to the management domain by adding a host(s). To expand the management domain, see
Expand a Workload Domain.
- In the navigation pane, click
- In the workload domains table, click the name of the management domain.
- Click theServicestab.
- Click the vCenter Server link.This opens the vSphere Client for the management domain.
- Create a new virtual machine within correct resource pool (Resource Pool User VM).Do not move any of theVMware Cloud Foundationmanagement virtual machines out of the resource pools they were placed in during bring-up.