Installation Guide

Procedure 5 Configuring the Foundation base appliance on ESX
1. Gather the following information, which you will enter later in the csstart setup assistant.
See Important CloudSystem configuration information (page 29).
• Foundation base appliance host name and IP address, if using static IP
• Glance disk size
• Foundation base appliance new secure password
• Data Center Management Network subnet mask
• Gateway address (jump box on the management network)
• Preferred DNS server IP address
• vCenter Server IP address or host name
• vCenter Server user name and password
• Management cluster name
• vCenter Server name for the Data Center Management Network
Refer to Cluster→Host→Configuration→Networking in vCenter Server to find the network
name.
• vCenter Server name for the Cloud Management Network
• vCenter Server name for the Cloud Data Trunk
• vCenter Server name for the External Network
2. Log on to the Windows server that has network connectivity to the vCenter Server managing
the management hypervisor.
See Important CloudSystem configuration information (page 29).
3. Navigate to the csstart-XXX.bat file with the preferred security checks and double-click to
launch csstart.
See Selecting hypervisor security level for CloudSystem installation (page 29).
Opening the .bat file launches a browser, opens URL localhost:5000, and starts the
csstart setup assistant.
4. Follow the prompts in the csstart setup assistant, using the information you gathered in step
one.
See Important CloudSystem configuration information (page 29).
5. When the installation is complete, verify that the Foundation base appliance appears in the
management cluster in vCenter Server.
The SDN appliance and network node appliances are created after entering Cloud Network
settings in the CloudSystem Console.
See Troubleshoot installation issues (page 52).
Next step: Setting up the CloudSystem Console for the first time (page 44)
32 Installing CloudSystem on an ESX cluster