My previous deployment post showed how to connect the offline depot and download the binaries necessary to deploy a new instance of VCF Operations for Logs. I broke out the deployment since the previous post ended up being long.
I am already logged into the VCF Operations web gui, if you are not that is the first step. Then you want to expand Fleet Management and click on Lifecycle.
In the Overview section of Lifecycle, click on Add underneath operations-logs
This will be a New Install and I am going to do a standard deployment type, if this is a production system then a cluster deployment is recommended. Click Next to continue.
***If you see an error message about no binaries present, check to ensure you have the install binaries downloaded from your depot***
At the Certificate screen, click the Plus sign to generate a self-signed certificate. I will replace this certificate later with an external certificate authority certificate.
In the Generate Certificate pop-up, enter in the required information and click Generate. It’s your choice on how much additional information you want to include in your certificate. Since I will replace it later, I just needed the basics.
After the certificate generates, click the Select Certificate dropdown and click on the newly created certificate. Click Next
Enter the infrastructure requirements for deployment and click Next.
Enter in the required network information and click Next
Enter in all the required components information for the appliance and cluster VIP. Click Next
Click on Run Precheck, to ensure all your deployment information is correct
If all the prechecks pass then click Next to continue the deployment. If any prechecks fail, expand the section that failed and resolve those issues.
Review the summary page and ensure everything is correct. Click Submit to start the deployment.
The deployment will start, there are a total of 13 stages for this deployment. Depending on the speed of your network and storage this could take some time to deploy.
After the deployment is successful you can login to Operations for Logs.
You can return to my main VCF Lab page to follow along this VCF deployment.