Converged, Hyperconverged Infrastructure & Virtualization

This post details the installation and configuration of the vRealize Suite Life Cycle Manager 1.2 which was recently released by VMware to automatically provision vRA components as part of their Cloud initiative.

First, Download the Life Cycle Manager ova from the vRealize Suite 2017 components and deploy it using the vCenter web client

Once the vm has been deployed and powered ON, you will have to go to a web browser to configure the appliance.

https://IP_Address_of_the_Appliance/vrlcm

use the following credentials to login into the life cycle manager web UI

username: admin@localhost

password: vmware

 

Click start to get started with the Life Cycle Manager

Now, we will create a New Environment in the lab

Click on Create Environment option to get started

Once you click on Create Environment option, you will be taken to a tab where it mentions that you will need to take care of a few things before you create the environment.

Let us take care of the Product Binaries first.

Click on Product Binaries option on the tab

Once you add the product binaries, let’s go and create a Certificate

Once these two pre-requisites are done, Let us move ahead …

On the main page, click on the Datacenters option on the left-hand side to create a Datacenter before we create the environment

Next, we add the vCenter server

Now, Let us go ahead and create an Environment

In this pre-check, you could get a validation failure which will need to be rectified before you run the pre-check again. its like shown in the picture below

Once you rectify the issue, run the pre-check again

Once the pre-check comes back clean, click on Next to move ahead

 

Click Submit and the life cycle manager will do the rest.

to check the progress, you can click on Requests icon on the left side of the page and clicking on in progress as the pic below

This process will take a long time … go, get some tea/coffee and it will still be deploying the environment …

This shows how to Install and configure vRealize Life Cycle Management and to create a vRA 7.4 environment.