Performing Basic Plug-In Setup

Using the Setup Wizard workflow of the Infoblox IPAM Plug-In for VMware, you can perform basic setup of the Plug-In, including:

• Creating vRA and IaaS host instances in the vRealize Orchestrator inventory.
• Registering the “Infoblox IPAM” type of endpoint in vRealize Automation.
• Performing vRO customization in vRealize Automation. This customization consists in creating a vRO subscription to the events of the VM provisioning workflows in vRA.
• Creating the default property group with default Infoblox IPAM settings in the vRealize Automation

dictionary. The Infoblox property group is used in the VM request blueprint.
If you use an embedded vRealize Orchestrator in to vRealize Automation, you select a predefined vRO instance as the vRA host. If you use an external vRealize Orchestrator, you must specify the host and connection parameters.
To perform basic Plug-In setup:

1. Log in to vRealize Orchestrator Client.
2. On the Workflows tab, expand Library –> Infoblox –> vRA –> Installation.
3. Right-click Setup Wizard and choose Start workflow.

4. 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.
   

   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.

   

5. Click Next.

6. If you are creating a new vRA host, specify the user credentials information.
   
7. Click Next.

8. 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.
   

   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.

9. Click Next.

10. Specify the user credentials information. You can select either NTLM or SSO authentication type.
    
11. Click Next.
12. Specify the domain and workstation information.
    
13. Click Next.

14. 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’s 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 Enabling Custom Hostnaming Functionality.

    Note

    For Infoblox IPAM properties description, see Appendix B, "Infoblox IPAM Properties".

15. Click Submit.
    You can see the log of the Setup Wizard workflow execution on the Logs tab of the vRealize Orchestrator Client:
    

    To verify that the required items are created in the result of the basic setup, see the next section, Verifying Basic Setup Results in Your Environment.

    Note

    If there is an error during the Setup Wizard workflow execution, the changes are rolled back.