In my previous blog I commissioned 3 physical hosts into my Management Domain vCenter, the next step will be to create a SDDC Cluster.
To get started, from the Datacenter Object, go to create a new cluster and we have ‘Create Standard Cluster’ & ‘Create SDDC Cluster’
This will be a vSAN ESA cluster as these hosts were previously provisioned with that purpose.
Name the cluster
Selecting an Image in library, this happens to be the same version of ESXi 9.0 as the Management Hosts
Selecting vSAN HCI
When we get to the Host Selection, we have our 3 hosts we previously commissioned
I will go with the Default settings for the vDS, this will create a new one for the cluster.
The one yellow banner requires a VLAN for the NSX TEP address, click on the ‘Edit’
Populate the VLAN for the overlay and click ‘Save Changes’
Click ‘Acknowledge’ in order to proceed.
Review and click ‘Finish’
Once everything was completed, VCF Operations now recognizes the second cluster, in addition to the hosts being prepared for NSX in addition to be added to the NSX.
