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HOL-1834-01: Initial Configuration and Environment Creation

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This part of the lab is presented as a Hands-on Labs Interactive Simulation. This will allow you to experience steps which are too time-consuming or resource intensive to do live in the lab environment. In this simulation, you can use the software interface as if you are interacting with a live environment.

The orange boxes show where to click, and the left and right arrow keys can also be used to move through the simulation in either direction.

In this simulation, the vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager appliance has already been deployed from an OVA file.  You will complete the initial configuration, download vRealize Log Insight and vRealize Operations Manager installation media from My VMware, and create a new environment consisting of new installations of both products.

Log in to vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager

  1. Click on the Google Chrome icon to launch the web browser.
  2. Click on the Username field and enter admin@localhost
  3. Click on the Password field and enter VMware1! as the password
  4. Click the LOG IN button to log in

Download vRealize Suite Components

  1. Click on the Settings icon to go to the Settings page
  2. Click OVA Configuration
  3. Click the My VMware button to select My VMware as a source location (the My VMware credentials in use for this exercise have already been entered in the "My VMware" section of the Settings page)
  4. Click the scroll bar to scroll to the bottom of the screen, which will allow you to view the entire first page of available products
  5. Click the down arrow icon in the vRealize Log Insight version 4.5.0 row to begin the process of downloading installation media for vRealize Log Insight 4.5.0 from My VMware
  6. Click the SUBMITTED button that appears in the vRealize Log Insight 4.5.0 row to view the download request in progress
    • The download request will complete after a few moments (ordinarily this request time will vary depending on the amount of data to be downloaded.)
  7. Click Settings once again to return to the Settings page, once the request shows a status of COMPLETED
  8. Click OVA Configuration
  9. Click My VMware to select My VMware as a source location
  10. Click the scroll bar to scroll to the bottom of the screen
  11. Click the down arrow icon in the vRealize Operations Manager version 6.6.1 row to begin the process of downloading installation media for vRealize Operations 6.6.1 from My VMware
  12. Click the Requests icon on the left to go to the Requests page (this is an alternative to clicking the SUBMITTED button in the row as done in step 6)
  13. Click the IN_PROGRESS button for the MYVMWARE_DOWNLOAD request to view the download request in progress
    • As with step 6, the download request will complete after a few moments
  14. Click Settings to return to the Settings page
  15. Click OVA Configuration
  16. Click the scroll bar to scroll to the bottom of the screen
    • Note that all downloaded vRealize Log Insight and vRealize Operations media is now showing as available - both installation and upgrade media

Generate a New Certificate

  1. Click the scroll bar to scroll back to the top of the screen
  2. Click Generate Certificate to generate a new SAN certificate for vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager to use
    • This exercise will generate a new certificate.  It is also possible to use existing certificates in the creation of a new environment.
  3. Click the Enter Organization Name field and enter Rainpole
  4. Click the Enter Organization Unit field and enter IT
  5. Click the Enter Domain Name field and enter corp.local
  6. Click the Enter Locality field and enter Palo Alto
  7. Click the Enter State field and enter CA
  8. Click the Enter Country Code field and enter US
  9. Click the Enter Passphrase field and enter VMware1!
  10. Click GENERATE CERTIFICATE to begin the certificate generation process
  11. Click the Requests icon to view the list of requests
  12. Click the INPROGRESS button in the GENERATE_CERTIFICATE row to view the request in progress
    • The request will complete after a few moments.

Create a New Data Center and Add a vCenter Server

  1. Click the Manage Data Centers icon
  2. Click the 3 vertical dots to the right to open the drop-down menu
  3. Click + Add Data Center
  4. Click the Name field and enter Rainpole Dev
  5. Click the Location field and enter Palo Alto (note that the list of locations will change as you enter additional characters)
  6. Click Palo Alto, California, US to choose the location
  7. Click the ADD button to add the data center
  8. Hover over the data center icon on the map to view information on the newly defined data center, and move the mouse cursor away from the icon to proceed
  9. Click Manage vCenter Servers
  10. Click + Add vCenter Server to configure connectivity to an existing vCenter Server (note that the Rainpole Dev data center is selected by default)
  11. Click Host Name and enter vcsa-01a.corp.local
  12. Click User Name and enter CORP\Administrator
  13. Click Password and enter VMware1!
  14. Click the Management button in the vCenter Server Type field to define this vCenter Server as managing a management cluster
  15. Click SUBMIT to complete the process of adding this vCenter Server
  16. Click Requests to return to the Requests page
  17. Click the INPROGRESS button next to the VC_DATA_COLLECTION request to view the request in progress

Create a New Environment

  1. Click the Manage Environments icon (note that currently, there are no environments defined)
  2. Click the Create Environment icon to begin the process of creating a new environment
  3. Click USING INSTALLATION WIZARD to open the Create Environment wizard
  4. Click the Data Center select box to open it
  5. Click Rainpole Dev to select it as the data center to use
  6. Click the Environment Type select box to open it
  7. Click Development to define this environment as a development environment
  8. Click the Environment Name field and enter Rainpole Dev
  9. Click Administrator Email and enter Administrator@corp.local
  10. Click Default Password and enter VMware1!
  11. Click Confirm Default Password and enter VMware1!
  12. Click the scroll bar to scroll down to the next section
  13. Click the checkbox to exclude the VMware Customer Experience Program, as it will not be necessary for this exercise
  14. Click the scroll bar again
  15. Click the checkbox in the vRealize Log Insight pane to select vRealize Log Insight as part of this environment
  16. Click the Version select box to open it
  17. Click 4.5.0 to select the specific version of vRealize Log Insight to install
  18. Click the checkbox in the vRealize Operations pane to select vRealize Operations as part of this environment
  19. Click CREATE ENVIRONMENT to proceed
  20. Click the scroll bar to scroll through the End User License Agreement (EULA)
  21. Click the I agree to the terms and conditions checkbox
  22. Click NEXT to proceed
  23. Click the Select vRealize Suite License select box to open it
  24. Click the first item in the list to select this specific license key
    • Note:  these license keys are available from the same My VMware account used to access and download the installation media at the beginning of this exercise.  It is also possible to enter a specific vRealize Suite license key during this step.
  25. Click NEXT to proceed
  26. Click the Select vCenter Server select box to open it
  27. Click vcsa-01a.corp.local to select it
  28. Click the Select Cluster select box to open it
  29. Click RegionA01-COMP01 (RegionA01) to select this vSphere cluster to use for this environment
  30. Click the Select Network select box to open it
  31. Click VM-RegionA01-vDS-COMP to select the port group to use
  32. Click the Select Datastore select box to open it
  33. Click RegionA01-ISCSI01-COMP01 to select it
  34. Click the Select Disk Format select box to open it
  35. Click Thin to select it
    • Note:  the Thin disk format is only used within this lab environment due to disk constraints.
  36. Click NEXT to proceed
  37. Click the Default Gateway field and enter 192.168.110.1
  38. Click the Domain Name field and enter corp.local
  39. Click the Domain Search Path field and enter corp.local
  40. Click the Domain Name Servers field and enter 192.168.110.10
  41. Click the Subnet Mask field and enter 255.255.255.0
  42. Click NEXT to proceed
  43. Click NEXT to use the previously generated certificate (note:  at this point in the environment creation process, it is possible to import another certificate to use for the specific environment if needed)
  44. Click the scroll bar to scroll down to view the rest of the Products section
  45. Click the Hostname field and enter vrli-01a.corp.local
  46. Click the IP Address field and enter 192.168.110.24
  47. Click the VM Name field, then delete a portion of the name and enter vrli-01a
  48. Click the scroll bar to scroll up slightly, to view the tabs for both products to be deployed in this new environment
  49. Click vRealize Operations
  50. Click the NTP Server IP / Hostname field and enter 192.168.110.10
  51. Click the Vrops Master VM Name field, delete the word master, and enter vrops-01a
  52. Click the Vrops Master Hostname field and enter vrops-01a.corp.local
  53. Click the Vrops Master IP Address field and enter 192.168.110.70
  54. Click NEXT to proceed
  55. Click SUBMIT at the Summary section to complete the Create Environment wizard
  56. Click Requests to go to the Requests page
  57. Click the INPROGRESS button next to CREATE_ENVIRONMENT to view the request in progress
    • Note that this request consists of several steps, unlike the previous requests in this exercise.  These steps include deployment of vRealize Log Insight and vRealize Operations from OVA, configuration of each using the parameters supplied, application of licensing, and more.
  58. Click Manage Environments to view the available environments, noting that the Rainpole Dev environment is now available
  59. Hover over each icon in the Rainpole Dev environment pane to view information about the product and version

This completes the simulation on initial configuration of vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager, and the creation of an environment.

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