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Deployment of Infoblox IPAM Plug-in for VMware assumes that your vRealize Orchestrator and vRealize Automation instances are configured and running correctly. To make sure that the versions of vRealize Orchestrator and vRealize Automation are compatible with each other, refer to corresponding product documentation and VMware Product Interoperability Matrixes. See Resources on page 79 for the links. |
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In vCenter, choose vCenter –> Inventory –> Management –> Customization Specifications Manager.
<<screen shot required>>Click New.
Select the Target Virtual Machine OS type.
The New Customization Specification wizard opens.In the Name field, enter the name for the new specification.
Click Next.
Select Use the virtual machine name and fill in the Domain Name field for the VM specification at the bottom of the pane. The Use the virtual machine name setting allows the VM to use the same name as for the guest operating system, which makes locating VMs easier for administrative purposes.
- Click Next.
Select Area, Location and Hardware Clock Set, and then click Next.
Keep Typical settings selected by default.
- Click Next.
- Enter the value for DNS Search Path (such as testrollout.infobloxIPAMdemo.com), click Add, and then click Next.
- Click Finish. The vSphere Client appears, showing your new customization specification in the table.
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- Log in to vRealize Orchestrator Client.
- On the Workflows tab, expand Library–> Infoblox –> vRA –> Installation.
- Right-click Setup Wizard and choose Start workflow.
In step 1 vRA Host, do one of the following for Create vRA host:
Select Yes if you use a standalone vRO and specify the host properties and connection parameters.
<<screen shot required>>Info title Note Infoblox recommends that you always install SSL certificates when creating a vRA host. To do so, select Yes for Automatically install SSL certificates.
Select No if you use a built-in vRO and do not need to create the vRA host. Click Not set and select the predefined host.
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- Click Next.
- If you are creating a new vRA host, specify the user credentials information.
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In step 2 IaaS host, do one of the following for Create IaaS host:
Select Yes if you create a new IaaS host and specify the host properties and connection parameters. Optionally, you can use a proxy for the IaaS host.
Info title Note Infoblox recommends that you always install SSL certificates when creating an IaaS host. To do so, select Yes for Automatically install SSL certificates.
- Select No if you use a predefined IaaS host and do not need to create a new one. Click Not set and select the predefined host.
- Click Next.
- Specify the user credentials information. You can select either NTLM or SSO authentication type.
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- Specify the domain and workstation information.
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- In step 3 Property group, do the following:
- Specify the details for the default Infoblox IPAM property group. If necessary, you can edit Infoblox IPAM properties in the default group later in vRA.
(Optional) In Enable support of Custom Hostnaming Extension for vRA, select Yes if you want to be able to assign custom host names to VMs instead of vRA defaults. If you select to support this feature, appropriate properties for custom hostnaming are included in the Infoblox default property group. For more information, see <<link>>.
Info title Note For Infoblox IPAM properties description, see <<link>>
Click Submit.
You can see the log of the Setup Wizard workflow execution on the Logs tab of the vRealize Orchestrator Client:
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To verify that the required items are created in the result of the basic setup, see <<link>>.Info title Note If there is an error during the Setup Wizard workflow execution, the changes are rolled back.
Verifying Basic Setup Results in Your Environment
Verify that the following are in place:
- The vRA host instance is created: go to the vRealize Orchestrator Client –> Inventory tab –> refresh the vRealize Automation entry.
<screen shot>> - The IaaS host instance is created: go to the vRealize Orchestrator Client –> Inventory tab –> refresh the vRealize Automation Infrastructure entry.
<<screen shot>> - The “Infoblox IPAM” type of endpoint is created: go to vRealize Automation –> Infrastructure –> Endpoints –> Endpoints –> refresh the page. Then click New and see the “Infoblox IPAM” endpoint type created.
<<screen shot>> - The vRO customization is performed in vRealize Automation. See the Setup Workflow execution log in vRealize Orchestrator to verify it.
- The default Infoblox IPAM properties groups is created: go to vRealize Automation –> Administration –> Property Dictionary –> Property Groups.
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The new property definitions are also added in the property dictionary.
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