I realized that I didn’t provide details on many of the steps I made to complete my lab deployment, I am still getting used to doing write-ups for this blog. So I have rebuilt my home lab and got it to an out of the box deployment and an import of an existing cluster.
Here is what is listed in VCF Operations:
As you can see I have 2 VCF deployments now, and on my vcf-mgmt deployment I have everything deployed except for automation which I will provide a walkthrough on that deployment in another post. Most VCF management domains will be deployed with automation but for my lab purposes I chose to skip it so that I can post about its deployment after the fact.
Here is a list of the next steps in this lab deployment:
- VCF Automation deployment
- VCF Operations for Logs deployment
- VCF Identity Broker deployment
- Single Sign On configuration
- SDDC Manager Single Sign On configuration
- VCF Operations for Networks deployment
- External Certificate Authority configuration
- VCF Components Certificate Replacement
- ESXi Host Certificate Replacement
- SFTP Backup configuration
- VCF Backup configurations
- Host Commissioning
- Workload Domain deployment
- vCenter Linking (formerly Enhanced Link Mode)
- VCF Operations Single Sign On
- VCF Operations for Logs Single Sign On
- VCF Automation Single Sign On
- VCF Operations for Networks Single Sign On
- VCF 9.0.1 Upgrade
- NSX Edge Deployment
- Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) Deployment
- Configuring vSphere Supervisor
- Configuring VCF Automation
- VCF Operations Domain Configurations