Deploy VCF Operations for Networks with Fleet Management
Follow VCF Operations for Networks deployment through Fleet Management, including platform and collector settings, certificates and prechecks.
Overview
This VCF Operations for Networks deployment walkthrough uses Fleet Management to add the platform and collector to my lab. It covers certificate creation, infrastructure and network inputs, and the deployment prechecks before I begin configuring collection.
Start the deployment
Start by logging in to the VCF Operations web gui.
Expand Fleet Management and click on Lifecycle
Click Add underneath operations-networks
At the Deployment screen, select New Install. I selected the Standard deployment type shown here because it was the smallest profile offered by this VCF 9.0 Fleet Management workflow and this is a homelab. That is a lab resource decision, not a sizing recommendation for another environment. Click Next to continue.
Configure the certificate
Click the Plus sign and select Generate Certificate to create a self-signed certificate for this deployment
Enter in the required information to create the certificate, for VCF Operations for Networks there are going to be 2 appliances deployed so be sure to include both of those FQDNs in your certificate. Click Generate
In the drop down, select the newly created certificate and click Next
Configure infrastructure and networking
Enter in the infrastructure settings to tell VCF Operations where to deploy the appliances. Click Next
Provide the domain name, DNS and NTP servers for the appliance deployment along with the default gateway and subnet mask. Once you have entered in the network configuration settings, click Next
Enter in the default password and appliance details for the platform and collector appliances. Click Next to continue.
Validate and deploy
Click Run Precheck to validate the information entered.
After the prechecks pass, click Next to continue to the summary page.
Review the settings at the summary page and click Submit to deploy. If any changes need to be made to the deployment you can go back and re-run the precheck.
The deployment will start with re-running the validations.
Once the deployment has completed, we have all the components installed for VCF Operations.
You can return to my main VCF Lab page to follow along with this deployment.