In my last blog post I showed how to deploy Pivotal Cloud Foundry operations manager. Once it’s deployed we have to configure it.
Pivotal CF Operations Manager is a web application that you use to deploy and manage a Pivotal CF PaaS. It does it's deployments using BOSH. BOSH installs and updates software packages on large numbers of VMs over many IaaS providers with the absolute minimum of configuration changes. So when you deploy the Pivotal CF operations manager, you are really setting up your environment to deploy VM’s with BOSH.
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Using a web browser navigate to the FQDN of the operations manager server. The page that pops up will ask you to create an Admin User. Enter a user name and password and click the “Create Admin User” button. You will then be bought to the POM main screen. |
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The main page show a list of available products and the Installation dashboard. You can add products like elastic runtime, MySQL, Pivotal Hadoop using the import product button. After it is imported you can then add it to the installation dashboard. The installation dashboard show products that have been added. It the product is Orange, as above, it needs to be configures. If it is green it has been configured. Above we see the operations Maanger Director of Vmware vSphere product. This will deploy BOSH to the VMware environment. Click it |
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On the left side of the screen you see the settings. At a minimum we need to configure the ones listed in orange. Click the vCenter credentials. |
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Enter the IP address and login credentials for your vCenter server. Click Save |
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Credentials will be verified. Click vSphere configuration |
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Enter the information for the vSphere environment. Click Save. |
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Setting are verified. Click network configuration. |
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Enter the information for you networking environment. Note that CF BOSH deployed VM’s cannot use DHCP so a pool of IPs must be created. This pool is defined by the excluded IP range. Example. I want to use x.x.x.50 thru 100 as my 51 ips for the environment. My excluded range would be: x.x.x.1-x.x.x.49,x.x.x.101-x.x.x.254 All VM’s deployed by BOSH would be assigned an ip from this pool I could not find an exact IP count that is needed at a minimum for a environment but you should plan on 50 or more. Enter the information for your environment and click save. Network setting are verified. |
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Click on NTP servers and enter your NTP server info. Click Save |
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NTP server is verified. |
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All are setting are now green and we are ready to deploy this configuration |
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On the left side we see a listing of pending changes to the environment. This is the BOSH setting we just setup. Click Install. |
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The installation will begin. |
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When complete you will see the above screen shot. Click Return to Installation dashboard. |
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The view of the environment from the vSphere client. We can see the operation’s manager server and the BOSH server just deployed. |
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On the installation dashboard we now see the operations Manager Director for VMware vSphere is listed in green |
Next we need to install the elastic runtime environment.
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