How to Create vSmart VM on ESXi

How to Create vSmart VM on ESXi

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

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

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

Create a vSmart 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 vsmart.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 “vSmart “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 vSmart VM instance and the system has successfully created the VM instance based on defined parameter and by default it has only one vNIC.

Add Additional vNICs