Create hosts with VCloud (VMware) hostprovider

Sergei Tikhomirov

In ADCM, a host represents a real hardware or virtual host. It doesn’t matter what infrastructure the original host uses — a cloud or bare metal. This topic explains how to add hosts in ADCM using the VCloud (VMware) hostprovider.

IMPORTANT

Before adding hosts in ADCM with the VCloud hostprovider, make sure that it is installed in ADCM.

The steps for adding hosts that are based on the VCloud hostprovider are listed below:

  1. On the Hosts page, click Create host.

    Creating a host
    Create a host

  2. In the opened form, select the created VCloud hostprovider in the Hostprovider field and enter the desired hostname in the Name field. Click Create.

    Fill in host parameters
    Fill in host parameters
    CAUTION

    • When creating hosts for the ADH and ADPS products, you should define an FQDN in the Name field (e.g. test.ru-central1.internal). The maximum FQDN length is 38 symbols for ADH and 49 symbols for ADPS.

    • For the ADS and ADS Control products, FQDNs are required if the ADPS product is used. The maximum FQDN length for ADS hosts is 48 symbols.

    • For the ADQM product, FQDNs are required if Kerberos authentication is used.

    • ADB starting with the 6.23.3.44 version supports both FQDN and short host names. For the previous ADB versions, it is not recommended to use FQDNs (as FQDNs cause errors during the Expand action and a workaround is needed).

    • In other cases, both short host names and FQDNs are allowed in the Name field.

    The created host will appear in the host list.

    Successful host creation
    Successful host creation

  3. Click the hostname in the Name column to proceed to configuration. On the opened page, activate the Show advanced switch, fill in the required parameters, and click Save. The mandatory parameters are highlighted in red.

    Host configuration
    Host configuration

    The purpose of all parameters is explained in the table below.

    Parameter Description Default value

    Connection address

    An IP address of the host

     — 

    Port

    The SSH port

    22

    Username

    A username for connection

    root

    Password

    Password for Username

     — 

    Ansible become

    Enables the root privileges for Username

    true

    Ansible become password

    Password to force root privileges

     — 

    SSH Args

    Additional SSH arguments for Ansible

    -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no -o UserKnownHostsFile=/dev/null

    vCPU

    Number of virtual CPUs

    1

    Cores

    Number of cores on each CPU

    1

    Memory

    RAM size, in MB

    1024

    Disk size

    Disk size, in MB

    21456

    Disk name

    Disk name

    Hard disk 1

    Additional disks (JSON)

    Parameters of additional disks in JSON format, for example:

    [{ "name": "Data disk 1", "size": 1024 }, { "name": "Data disk 2", "size": 1024 }]

     — 

    Template

    Name of the disk image, on which the VM will be based

     — 

    Folder

    Folder, in which the image is located. Usually, the value is the same as Template

     — 

    Catalog

    Name of the catalog, where the image is located

     — 

    The values of Template and Catalog can be found in VCloud on the vApp Template tab in the columns Name and Catalog, respectively.

    The vApp Template tab
    The vApp Template tab
    The vApp Template tab
    The vApp Template tab

  4. Initialize the host by going to the Hosts page and launching the Init action for a configured host.

    Run the Init action
    Run the Init action
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