VMware Telco Cloud Automation Manager and Control Plane Deployment and Configuration
Before deployment, Please go through my previous post – Basic Overview of Telco (PNFs, VNFs, CNFs) and VMware Telco Cloud Automation – https://kdinesh.in/tca/
Download Telco Cloud Automation OVA File from VMware Official Portal
Create DNS records for Telco Cloud Automation Manager and Telco Cloud Automation Control Plane.
Log into vCenter > Right Click on Cluster/Host > Click on the Deploy OVF Template option.
Select the Local File option > Click on the Upload Filed option and Select VMware Telco Cloud Automation OVA file > Click Next.
Enter the Virtual machine name and select the location of the virtual machine > Click on Next.
Select a compute resource and click on next.
Click on next.
Accept the License and click on next.
Select Virtual disk format, datastore, and click on next.
Choose Network from the drop-down list and click on next.
Enter Network IP, Subnet mask, Gateway, DNS IP, DNS Name, NTP, and Select Configure Appliance role as manager > Click on next.
Review Entered/Selected details and click on finish.
You can check the OVA deployment status on vCenter Recent Tasks.
Once Deploying the OVA template is completed. Right-click on TCA manager VM and Power on TCA Manager.
After powering on TCA manager will take some time to run internal services; in the meantime, you deploy TCA Control Plane.
Telco Cloud Automation Control Plane Deployment: –
For Deploying TCA Control Plane, you can follow the steps above to deploy TCA CP. Step 8 (In my doc point 11), Select Appliance Role as Control Plane instead of Manager.
TCA Manager Activation and initial Configuration: –
You can access TCA Manager Console using the URL – https://TCA fqdn/IP:9443. Enter your Username as admin and enter the admin password (During OVA deployment admin password is configured)
Automatically, it will show the role as telco cloud automation manager because during TCA ova deployment, selected appliance role as manager. Click on continue.
Enter Telco Cloud Automation License and click on activate option. Once activation is completed successfully, you can click on next.
Enter the Location and continue. (generally, the TCA manager will be in the Central datacenter and TCA control plane on the Central and regional Datacenter locations)
Automatically, it will show the system name no need to enter anything; click on continue.
Select Authentication Provider. TCA 2. X version will support AD Authentication also. (In my case, I selected vCenter). Click on continue.
Enter the vCenter URL, Username, and password. Click on continue.
Enter the Identity source URL (Basically, it’s the center URL). Click on continue.
Review details and click on the Restart option.
After reboot. In Appliance Summary Section, check whether all the services are running. (By default, Networking Slice Service will be disabled)
TCA Manger Configuration completed. Next, move on to Telco cloud automation control plane configuration.
Telco Cloud Automation Control Plane (TCA-CP) Initial Configuration: –
Automatically, it will show the appliance role as the TCA control plane because, during OVA deployment, the selected appliance role is the control plane. Click on Continue.
Enter TCA License Key and click on validate option once license validation is completed. You can click on continue.
Enter TCA -CP location. Usually, TAC Cp will be deployed in the Central, Regional datacenter.
Automatically, it will show the system name; no need to enter any details. Click on continue.
Based on your infra. Select Instance type. In my env, it’s vSphere; I am using vSphere as VIM. Click on Continue.
Enter vCenter details – vCenter URL, Username, and password. (NSX is optional if you’re planning to use NSX. You can enter NSX details also)
Enter the Identity Source URL. Click on continue.
Enter vRealize Orchestrator details – URL, Port, Username, and password. (I am ignoring this step now, I will configure Later, So I selected ADD later option)
Select Default Administrator Group and click on continue.
Click on the Restart option.
After reboot. Login and check the vCenter connection status and in the appliance summary, check whether all the services are running.
You can see that VRO is not registered with TCA-CP. Because during the initial setup, I selected the VRO option as ADD later.
Now I will register VRO with TCA-CP.
In the Configuration section. Select the vRealize Orchestrator option and enter VRO -URL, Username, and password.
Now you can see the VRO section showing green; green means TCA-Cp successfully registered with VRO.
After Login, On the infrastructure section, select the Virtual Infrastructure option.
Click on ADD virtual infrastructure option.
You can see that you can add different virtual infrastructure accounts. Select vSphere because, in my environment, I am using vSphere environment; suppose you’re using any other infra. Choose that option and enter the required details.
Enter Cloud name (Any name), TCA CP URL, TCA username, and Password. Click on ADD.
You can see the status. vSphere infra account was successfully added. Click on the finish.
You can check the TCA Control Plane connection status.
Next , We can Integrate Harbor with TCA .( You can check my previous post how to install Harbor – https://kdinesh.in/harbor/)
Patner Systems > Select harbor , Enter Harbor URL , Username and Password .Select Harbor version .Click on Save .
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