VMware Cloud Foundation 9 : Import a vCenter

This article will show you how to import a vCenter as a new workload domain in VCF 9

We can import a vSphere 8 environment with an existing NSX instance since the version VCF 9.0.1.0

I chose to deploy the vCenter server with 2 hosts in this version.

I improved the memory with the feature memory tiering. I increased the size of the cluster from 64Gb to 128Gb.

Now i’m going to add this new vCenter as a workload domain.

During this operation i will deploy a new NSX instance.

Let’s go to see all the steps

We start the process in VCF Operations

From Add a new Workload Domain we select Import a vCenter

In the second step we can choose a vCenter available in the inventory of the Management domain or add an external vCenter.This is my case so i chose the second option. We can also add the details of an existing NSX instance attach to this vCenter. As said above i’m deploying a new NSX instance

There are 70 prechecks about « no standard switches » or « lookup service » for example

Then i deployed a single NSX Manager appliance as i don’t have enough resources for a NSX Management cluster. I chose to configure the overlay using the Esx Management VMKernel Networking. We can also select the Auto Generate Passwords.

Again a validation section with 74 prechecks

We can see in the tasks the deployment of the workload domain

After some time the vCenter has been added to the VCF Instance as a new workload domain.

I hope you found this article informative 🙂