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Installation of vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager and Workspace One Access

 

Welcome to this demonstration on installing vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager (vRSLCM).

The purpose of this demonstration is to show the automated installation of the vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager and Workspace One Access (WSA) through VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) version 4.1 and newer.

 

We begin at the SDDC manager dashboard page. Before we begin the process of installing the vRSLCM we first must download the software bundles that are necessary to install the vRealize Suite.

  1. Click [Bundle Management]
  2. Click [Download History]
  3. Click [Scroll bar]

From the Bundle Management Screen, we can see in the download history that the software for the vRealize Suite has been downloaded into the SDDC manager bundle repository.

 

  1. Click [Dashboard]
  2. Click [vRealize Suite]

From the vRealize Suite screen we can begin the process of automated installation. On the screen is a high-level overview for installing the entire vRealize Suite product set. For this demonstration we will complete the first two steps.

 

  1. Click [Deploy]
  2. Click [Select All]

There are several perquisites that need to be verified before we begin the installation process.

 

DNS and IP allocation must be complete for the vRSLCM appliance within your network. Any necessary routes must be configured. And the software bundles must be available in the SDDC manager.

 

These steps have all been completed for this lab, so we can proceed.

 

  1. Click [Begin]

We can see the networks that have been designated for use with the vRealize Suite. For this demonstration we will be using the Application Virtual Network (AVN), This is a Geneve-based NSX-T overlay network built into Cloud Foundation.

 

  1. Click [Next]

Next we need to fill in the details for the vRSLCM appliance deployment, and we also need to provide an IP for the NSX-T Tier 1 gateway load balancer service. 

When the clustered instances of vRA, vROps, and WSA are instantiated  a separate NSX Teir-1 gateway is created to hold the NSX load balancers for these clusters. It is necessary to create a separate NSX Tier-1 gateway so that the environment is ready for a future NSX Federation architecture.





 

  1. Click [FQDN]
  2. Click [Scroll bar]

With all the details filled out

 

  1. Click [Next]

Review the settings for accuracy.

 

  1. Click [Finish]

We can see that the SDDC manager has completed the deployment of the vRSLCM appliance successfully.

 

  1. Click [x]
  2. Click [Scroll bar]

Scrolling to the bottom we can see the next step is to deploy Workspace One Access. This is required to provide Single Sign On (SSO) authentication for the vRealize Suite products.

 

  1. Click [Deploy Workspace One Access]

Clicking the link takes us to the login page for the vRSLCM appliance.

 

  1. Click [Username]
  2. Click [Login]

From the vRSLCM appliance dashboard, we can see the large navigation buttons for the vRSLCM. First, we need to import the SSL Certificate for the WSA appliance. Add the vRealize Suite 2019 License Key and configure some default environment passwords.

 

  1. Click [Locker]

We can see that there are no certificates installed for the environment. Let’s import a certificate that was generated using the VMware CertGen VVD tool.

 

  1. Click [Import]
  2. Click [Certificate Name]
  3. Click [Browse File]
  4. Click [Certificate Chain File]

We can see that the CertGen VVD tool has created the required certificate Chain file necessary for deployment of the vRealize suite products.

 

  1. Click [Open]
  2. Click Scroll bar]
  3. Click [Import]

We now have the certificate imported for WSA. Next we will install the vRealize Suite 2019 license key.

 

  1. Click [License]
  2. Click [Add]
  3. Click [Alias]
  4. Click [License Key]
  5. Click [Validate]
  6. Click [Add]

The license key is now installed and validated for this deployment. Next we will setup two default environment passwords that can be used for the deployment of the vRealize Suite products. We will use these passwords during the deployment of each product. You can also choose to setup a unique password for each product.

 

  1. Click [Password]
  2. Click [Add]
  3. Click [Password Alias]
  4. Click [Add]
  5. Click [Add]
  6. Click Password Alias]
  7. Click [Add]

We now have the default root and admin passwords stored in the vRSLCM and they are ready for use with the vRSLCM deployment process.

 

  1. Click [Certificate]
  2. Click [Services Menu Dots]
  3. Click [Lifecycle Operations]

Next we will begin the process of installing WSA appliances. From the Lifecycle Operations page.

 

  1. Click [Requests]

We can see that the SDDC manager is synchronizing the vRealize Suite Product Binaries to the vRSLCM. This is a new feature since VCF 4.1 as the SDDC manager is the central source of all product updates within VCF. When a patch or upgrade is available the SDDC manager will communicate with the vRSLCM appliance to manage any further updates.

 

  1. Click [Synchronize Product Binaries Request]

In the details we can see this is coming from the VCFSourceMapping process which is the SDDC manager.

 

  1. Click [In Progress]

After a few minutes the transfer is complete.

 

  1. Click [Dashboard]

Let’s review the binaries that have been copied over from the SDDC manager.

 

  1. Click [Settings]
  2. Click [Binary Mapping]

From here we can see that the four vRealize Suite products have been copied over for installation. vRealize Log Insight, vRealize Operations, VMware Identity Manager (WSA), vRealize Automation.

 

  1. Click [Dashboard]

Next we will install WSA Access.

 

  1. Click [Create Environment]
  2. Click [Administrator Email]
  3. Click [Select Default Password]

Note this is the default environment password we entered earlier.

 

  1. Click [Root]
  2. Click [Select Datacenter]
  3. Click Mgmt-datacenter]

We will install WSA into the management domain within VCF.

 

  1. Click [Next]

For this demonstration we will install a fully redundant cluster for WSA

 

  1. Click [Standard]
  2. Click [Cluster]
  3. Click [Check box]
  4. Click [Next]

We are now at the ELUA,

 

  1. Click [Scroll Bar]
  2. Click [ Accept EULA]
  3. Click [Next]

Next we will select the SSL certificate we installed earlier for WSA

 

  1. Click [Select Certificate]
  2. Click [Workspace One Access]
  3. Click [Next]

From the Infrastructure screen we can see that the SDDC manager has filled out the necessary settings. This is the built-in integration of the VCF SDDC manager providing these details to the vRSLCM.

 

  1. Click [Next]

From the Network screen we can see that the SDDC manager has inserted the network details.

 

  1. Click [Scroll Bar]
  2. Click [Next]

Next we need to enter the default configadmin user account, you will use this admin account to login later to WSA to complete the configuration and connection to your Active Directory or LDAP services. This account can be named whatever you need it to be to match your naming convention standards. Note that the password for the configadmin account is the password we entered earlier in the in root default environment password.




 

  1. Click [Default Configuration Admin]
  2. Click [Scroll bar]

Next enter the Fully Qualified Domain Name (FQDN) of the WSA Cluster Virtual IP (VIP), we will also select the SSL certificate for WSA, and provide a cluster IP for the built in database for WSA.

 

  1. Click [Enter FQDN] to fill in these details
  2. Click [Scroll bar]

Next fill in the Name, FQDN and IP for the Primary WSA Virtual Machine.

 

  1. Click [VM Name]
  2. Click [Scroll bar]

Next fill in the Name, FQDN and IP for the Secondary WSA Virtual Machine.

 

  1. Click [VM Name]
  2. Click [Scroll bar]

Next fill in the Name, FQDN and IP for the Third WSA Virtual Machine.

 

  1. Click [VM Name]
  2. Click [Next]

Next Pre-check will run to validate everything that has been entered.

 

  1. Click [Run Precheck]
  2. Click [Check box]

There are some Pre-Check items that require manual validation. We have completed this step in the lab, and we can now continue.

 

  1. Click [Run Pre Check]

Pre-Check is now complete, and all validation items are successful.

 

  1. Click [Next]

From the summary screen we can uncheck the run-precheck box as we have already completed this step. And we can review all the details we have entered.

 

  1. Click [Run Precheck on Submit)

When we click Submit, the vRSLCM will begin the automated deployment of the WSA Cluster.

 

  1. Click [Submit]

Deployment completed successfully, let’s go login to the new WSA installation.

 

  1. Click [Dashboard]
  2. Click [Browser Tab] for VCF

We can see that the integration from vRSLCM has made the SDDC manager aware of the newly installed WSA

 

  1. Click [Scroll bar]

Click the link from VCF to login to WSA.

 

  1. Click [Workspace One Access]
  2. Click [Username]

Note this is the ConfigAdmin user account we entered Earlier, the password is using the default environment admin or root password we selected during the installation process.

 

  1. Click [Sign In]

This is the default landing page for the WSA cluster. We can click on the Identity and Access Management tab.

 

  1. Click [Identity & Access Management]

From the Identity and Access management tab you can begin the process of connecting to your local Active Directory or LDAP authentication sources.

Let’s return to the SDDC manager.

 

  1. Click [Browser Tab]
  2. Click [Scroll bar]
  3. Click [Dashboard]

This completes this demonstration of using VMware Cloud Foundation to deploy the vRSLCM and WSA. You can see the new two-way integration features of the SDDC manager and the vRSLCM that are now built into VCF. In the next few demos we will continue to install the remaining vRealize Suite products that are part of VCF.



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