Next, We Create a New Environment and then create an New VRA environment using vRLCM
Go to Home and Click on Create Environment to get started
Agree to the EULA, click Next
Enter the License
Select the Certificate which we have generated before and click Next
This is where things have gotten tricky in this version as we have multiple options to define the VRA environment including the windows template to create new vms themseleves.
let us go step by step process
Under Product Properties, provide the windows server username and password which you want to access after the box has been provisioned using the windows template.
In the above configuration, We have only 3 VMs being deployed in VRA Simple Configuration.
- VRA Primary Appliance
- VRA DB server (Database server)
- VRA IAAS web server (this contains iaas-web server, iaas manager, iaas DEM Worker and proxy-agent-vsphere )
Once all the Product details of VRA are put in, we will proceed to the precheck phase.
Next, we click on Validate & Deploy option to deploy the vms
Make sure you disable UAC in the windows template and then click on Validate & Deploy option to continue.
NOTE: The re-validation took more than 30 mins in my lab to complete. Not sure why it took a lot of time, but I suggest you all to be patient during this process as there is no way to speed it up.
NOTE that at this point, I haven’t installed SQL Software on the SQL Server, but VRSLM has created an windows server for both the db and iaas install. I will have to install SQL Server on the db windows VM and see how it goes.
This Post is pending and I will be updating it soon once I have some clarification on if I need to install and configure the SQL software in the vRA SQL server windows machine or will the scripts do it if I provide the SQL ISO file. Stay Tuned …….
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