I’ve covered deploying a Micro Seg only deployment in the last couple of posts so I figured I should show how to do a Full NSX host preparation deployment also using the wizard.
A thing to note is that if you have already deployed NSX to a cluster using the Micro Seg deployment the wizard will not allow you to change to a full deployment you may see a couple of issues. The first is that the hosts have no free NIC’s as they may have already been configured for the Micro Seg deployment.
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The second issue even if you add additional NIC’s it won’t let me continue.
I assume this is because the wizard is trying to deploy the host as a transport node but it is already configured as a transport node.
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I’ll cover how we can change from a Micro Seg build to a full build in another post.
The Build
To get started go to System, Get Started then on the ‘Prepare NSX Transport Nodes click GET STARTED
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You now have the option to select either a cluster deployment, just Host or NSX Edge VM. In this post I’ll cover the host and cluster deployments.
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Host
From the screen above select Host then click NEXT
Click ADD NEW HOST
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Enter a ‘Name’ the host ‘IP Address’ select the ‘Operating System’ enter the ‘Username’ and the ‘Password’ click ADD
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Click YES
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NSX will be installed on the host when it’s done you can click NEXT to continue.
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Cluster
To install to the whole cluster select ‘Host Cluster’ and click NEXT
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Select the cluster from the drop-down list. Or click ‘ADD COMPUTE MANAGER’ if you have not already added one.
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If NSX is not already installed you will get a pop-up prompt to install NSX click INSTALL
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NSX will be installed on the hosts in the cluster. Once done click NEXT
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Select the Overlay Transport Zone from the drop-down or click ‘CREATE OVERLAY TRANSPORT ZONE’ if you want to create a new one.
Click NEXT
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Select the uplink profile if it won’t let you pick from a list just delete the text that it has put in the box and the list will appear or click ‘CREATE UPLINK PROFILE’ if you want to create a new one.
Click NEXT
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Select the switch type N-VDS or VDS for my build I am using VDS so I next select the VDS to use.
I select ‘USE IP Pool’ and then select my IP Pool from the drop-down.
Scroll down.
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Finally map the vDS uplinks to the Host Uplinks.
Click NEXT
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Click FINISH
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You’ll end up back at the wizard screen without any confirmation that it did anything so go to System, Fabric, Nodes select the vCenter from the drop-down and expand the cluster.
We can see that NSX is up.
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By clicking on a host we can see in the overview that the host is up and has two TEP IP’s assigned.
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With that we are finished 🙂