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 :

        a. SSH in to the SDDC Manager appliance using the vcf user account

        b. Browse to the vcf-brownfield-toolset directory and run

        c. 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