What is VMware vCloud Appliance
A pre-configured virtual appliance that deploys the vCloud Automation Center server. The server includes the vCloud Automation Center console, which provides a single portal for self-service provisioning and management of cloud services, as well as authoring and administration.
Deployment
- deploy appliance form OVF
- follow the prompts to the properties page
- on the properties page provide:
- hostname
- root password
- networking configuration
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- follow the prompts to the properties page
- on the properties page provide:
- hostname
- root password
- networking configuration
vCAC appliance IP configuration
Configuration
- Power virtual machine on
- Browse to https://<appliance FQDN>:5480 and log in using root credentials
- Configure time source, I use my internal time server
Time source
- On vCAC settings tab type FQDN of vCAC appliance
vcac configuration
- Generate self-signed certificate or import signed cert
SSL certificate settings
- Connect vCAC appliance to vCAC SSO appliance, don’t forget to append SSO port 7444 to SSO host.
SSO configuration
- Click Services. The following services must be running to log into the console. They usually start in about 10 minutes.
- authorization
- authentication
- eventlog-service
- shell-ui-app
- branding-service
- plugin-service
vCAC services
- Assign valid license
vCAC appliance is configured and ready for next part of deployment.
vCloud Automation Center 6.0 series
- vCAC 6 series – Part 1 – Architecture
- vCAC 6 series – Part 2 – Prepare for deployment
- vCAC 6 series – Part 3 – Deploy VMware Identity Appliance
- vCAC 6 series – Part 4 – Deploy VMware vCAC Appliance
- vCAC 6 series – Part 5 – Installing IaaS components
- vCAC 6 series – Part 6 – Initial Configuration
- vCAC 6 series – Part 7 – Post Installation Tasks
- vCAC 6 series – Part 8 – Installing vSphere Agent
- vCAC 6 series – Part 10 – Prepare for provisioning
- vCAC 6 series – Part 11 – Create Blueprint
