How to Create vEdge VM on EXSi

How to Create vEdge VM on EXSi

To deploy vEdge on Enterprise datacenter, a VM instance for it must be created on any running hypervisor software.

To create a vEdge VM instance on hypervisor, following steps need to be followed

1. Create a vEdge VM instance on any ESXi hypervisor
2. Add additional vNICs for networking.
3. Start the vEdge VM instance and connect to the vManage console.

Create a vEdge VM instance on any ESXi hypervisor

Launch the VMware vSphere Client application with your credential. Click File | Select Deploy OVF Template to deploy the virtual machine and browse the downloaded OVF package vEdge.ova file which can be downloaded from the Viptela Support webpage

Click Next to verify OVF template details

Enter a name for the deployed template “vEdge Cloud “and click Next | To accept the default format for the virtual disks Click Next and from the drop-down list, select the destination network for the deployed OVF template, and click Next

Click Finish to complete deployment of the vEdge VM instance and the system has successfully created the VM instance based on defined parameter and by default it has only one vNIC.