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Table Of Contents
- vCloud Director Installation and Upgrade Guide
- Contents
- VMware vCloud Director Installation and Upgrade Guide
- Overview of vCloud Director Installation, Configuration, and Upgrade
- vCloud Director Architecture
- Configuration Planning
- vCloud Director Hardware and Software Requirements
- Browsers That vCloud Director Supports
- Summary of Network Configuration Requirements for vCloud Director
- Installing and Configuring a vCloud Director Database
- Create SSL Certificates
- Installing and Configuring vShield Manager
- Installing and Configuring an AMQP Broker
- Download and Install the VMware Public Key
- Creating a vCloud Director Server Group
- Install and Configure vCloud Director Software on the First Member of a Server Group
- Configure Network and Database Connections
- Install vCloud Director Software on Additional Members of a Server Group
- Install Microsoft Sysprep Files on the Servers
- Start or Stop vCloud Director Services
- Uninstall vCloud Director Software
- Upgrading vCloud Director
- vCloud Director Setup
- Cell Management Tool Reference
- Index
Procedure
1 Use the vSphere Client to log in to your vCenter Server.
2 Select File > Deploy OVF Template.
3 Browse to the location of the vShield Manager.ovf file and follow the prompts to deploy the OVF file.
4 After the OVF file is deployed, power on the vShield Manager virtual machine and open the console.
5 Log in to the console with the user name admin and password default.
6 At the manager prompt, type enable.
7 At the Password prompt, type default to enable setup mode.
When setup mode is enabled, the prompt string changes to manager#.
8 At the manager# prompt, type setup to begin the setup procedure.
9 Enter the IP address, subnet mask, and default gateway for the vShield Manager virtual machine.
You need this information to attach a vCenter Server to Cloud Director.
10 Type exit to log out.
11 Close the console and leave the virtual machine running.
12 Synchronize vShield Manager with vCenter and register vShield Manager as a vSphere Client plug-in.
Follow the Log In to the vShield Manager User Interface and Set up vShield Manager procedures in the
vShield Installation and Upgrade Guide.
What to do next
Configure VXLAN support in vShield Manager. vCloud Director creates VXLAN network pools to provide
network resources to Provider VDCs. If VXLAN support has not been configured in vShield manager,
Provider VDCs will show a network pool error, and you will have to create a different type of network pool
and associate it with the Provider VDC. See the vShield Administration Guide for details about configuring
VXLAN support.
Installing and Configuring an AMQP Broker
AMQP, the Advanced Message Queuing Protocol, is an open standard for message queuing that supports
flexible messaging for enterprise systems. vCloud Director includes an AMQP service that you can
configure to work with an AMQP broker, such as RabbitMQ, to provide cloud operators with a stream of
notifications about events in the cloud. If you want to use this service, you must install and configure an
AMQP broker.
While use of an AMQP broker with vCloud Director is optional, a number of integrations use AMQP to
communicate with vCloud Director. Consult the installation and configuration documents for any
integrations you plan to use.
Procedure
1 Download the RabbitMQ Server from http://info.vmware.com/content/12834_rabbitmq.
2 Follow the RabbitMQ installation instructions to install RabbitMQ on any convenient host.
The RabbitMQ server host must be reachable on the network by each vCloud Director cell.
3 During the RabbitMQ installation, make a note of the values that you will need to supply when
configuring vCloud Director to work with this RabbitMQ installation.
n
The fully-qualified domain name of the RabbitMQ server host, for example amqp.example.com.
n
A username and password that are valid for authenticating with RabbitMQ.
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