Holodeck: Workload Domain Creation

Module 4: Workload Domain Creation

This module will show the process of adding a workload domain to an environment.

**Note** This module requires the VLC-Holo-Site-1 configuration with hosts ESXi-10 through ESXi-12 commissioned and unassigned.

[Step 1] Log in to the environment

1. Open a new tab in the Chrome browser (if necessary)
2. Click the Managed Bookmarks folder in the bookmark bar then select SDDC Manager
3. Log into SDDC Manager as user: administrator@vsphere.local with the password: VMware123!  
4. Click Login

 

[Step 2] Validate unassigned hosts are available

1. On the left navigation panel select Inventory -> Hosts
2. Select Unassigned Hosts
3. Verify ESXi-10, ESXi-11 and ESXi-12 are available in the inventory

 

[Step 3] Create Workload Domain

1. On the left navigation panel select Inventory -> Workload Domains
2. Select +Workload Domains
3. Select VI – Workload Domain

4. Select vSAN and Begin

5. Name the domain WLD-01
6. Name the organization Holodeck
7. Do not select Manage clusters in this workload domain using images (the nested lab config does not support image based VLCM)
8. Click NEXT

9. Name the cluster wld01-c01 then click NEXT

10. Add compute info
    • vCenter FQDN: vcenter-wld.vcf.sddc.lab
    • vCenter IP (should auto populate to 10.0.0.50)
    • vCenter Subnet (should auto populate to 255.255.255.0)
    • vCenter Default gateway (should auto populate to 10.0.0.221)
    • vCenter root password VMware123!

11. Enter NSX info as follows: (Tip: You can cut and paste FQDN info from C:\VLC\VLC-Holo-Site-1\conf\additional_DNS_Entries.txt)
    • FQDN 1: nsx1-wld.vcf.sddc.lab
    • IP 1 (Should auto populate to 10.0.0.52)
    • FQDN 2: nsx2-wld.vcf.sddc.lab
    • IP 1 (Should auto populate to 10.0.0.53)
    • FQDN 1: nsx3-wld.vcf.sddc.lab
    • IP 1 (Should auto populate to 10.0.0.54)
    • Cluster FQDN: nsx-wld.vcf.sddc.lab
    • Cluster IP (Should auto populate to 10.0.0.51)

1. Scroll down and enter passwords for Admin and Audit. Both should be set to VMware123!VMware123!
2. Set VLAN ID to 10
3. Set IP Allocation to DHCP
4. Click NEXT

5. Set Failures to Tolerate to 0, as this is a lab environment. (In live environments this must always be  set to 1 or 2).
6. Click NEXT

7. Select hosts esxi-10, esxi-11 and esxi-12 then click NEXT

8. Select your licenses from the drop down list

9. Verify your object names then click NEXT

10. Click Finish (NOTE: there is a known issue with VCF 4.5 that may show a black screen on the last Review )
11. Monitor progress in the task pane

[Step 4] Explore Workload Domain Components

1. Open a new tab in the Chrome browser (if necessary)
2. Click the Managed Bookmarks folder in the bookmark bar then Mgmt Domain -> Mgmt vCenter
3. Log into vCenter Server as user: administrator@vsphere.local with the password: VMware123!  
4. Click Login
5. Click Hosts and Clusters view, and expand mgmt-datacenter-01 -> mgmt-cluster-01
6. Notice nsx1-wld and vcenter-wld virtual machines running in the management domain.

7. Expand vcenter-wld.vcf.sdc.lab -> wld-01-DC -> wld01-c01
8. Notice wld01-C01 with esxi-10, esxi-11 and esxi-12 as was built earlier

 

Module Summary

SDDC Manager significantly simplifies and automates deployment of additional capacity in a workload domain. This includes deploying NSX Manager, vCenter Server, and configuring a vSAN cluster.