NSX Deployment After Brownfield VCF Installation Using --skip-nsx-deployment Switch

Products

• VMware SDDC Manager

Issue/Introduction

During a Brownfield deployment of VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF), the --skip-nsx-deployment switch was used. As a result, NSX-T was not deployed as part of the initial bring-up process. Assistance is required to perform the NSX-T deployment post the Brownfield deployment process.

Environment

VMware Cloud Foundation 5.x (Brownfield Deployment)

Cause

This is scenario where the Brownfield deployment of VCF infrastructure was done without the NSX appliance using the --skip-nsx-deployment switch.

Resolution

1. Take a snapshot of the SDDC manager appliance VM
2. Obtain the NSX-T Manager ZIP bundle matching the corresponding VCF 5.2.1 BOM
3. Provide the NSX zip file path in the nsx-deployment-json-spec-path json
   Run the script to deploy NSX Manager :
   1. SSH in to the SDDC Manager appliance using the vcf user account
   2. Browse to the vcf-brownfield-toolset directory and run
   3. python3 vcf_brownfield.py deploy-nsx --vcenter <vcenter-server-fqdn> --nsx-deployment-spec-path <nsx-deployment-json-spec-path>

Additional Information

Deploy NSX Manager for Workload Domains