vCloud director 5.5 setup from scratch

[virtualserver4]

Hi All,

My apologies, as this question  may be very basic to most of you.

I am new to vCD 5.5 and wanted to implement it as a pilot phase. I need help on how can I start in terms of components.

I have an setup of two powerful Dell servers installed with ESXi 5.5 (Ent+ lic) and vCenter 5.5 (stnd lic). vCenter is sitting as a vm on the same ESXi host.

I am not sure which component should I start with in order to achieve vCD complete installation with atleast some basic components like (vShield, vCD with DB, Operations, etc)

Any links to good documents will also help!

Thanks!

-Abhishek

[karthickvm]

Hi Abhishek,

I assume that you aware about the architecture and how product works.

I gather that you already have ESXi 5.5 and vCenter 5.5, please follow below steps to setup a simple vCD Setup.

What you need:

- Cent OS VM

- vShield Manager

- vCloud Installation binary

- Database for vCloud (if you are using vCenter DB, then use MS SQL management studio to perform it)

- Physical switch access to configure VLANS and MTU

How to do it.

- Install Cent OS

- Download and install vCD 5.5 (Do not configure it )

- Create vCD DB (from this KB VMware KB:    Installing and configuring a vCloud Director 5.1 or 5.5 database  )

- Create Self Signed Or CA Signed Certificate for vCD (http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=102630...)

- Configure vCD using configure script

- Start vCD service and make sure you are able to login

- Deploy VSM and attach with vCenter

- Login to vCD webpage, provide the license

- Attach vCenter and vShield manager

- Follow the vCD Wizard to create pVDC, Org, Org VDC, Network pools, Org networks

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All the best.

Links that will help you:

http://www.yellow-bricks.com/2010/09/13/creating-a-vcd-lab-on-your-maclaptop/

http://www.chriscolotti.us/vmware/vsphere/vmware-vcloud-in-a-box-for-your-home-lab/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LzrNRVFCzqw

PS:Please do not miss to read the vCloud Documentation

Regards,

Karthic Kumar | VMware - vCloud Hybrid Service | vExpert 2014 | vCAP CIA/DCA, VCP 2/4/5, MCP | Please consider awarding points if helped you.