Adding an Appliance Virtualization Platform or ESXi host

About this task

Use the procedure to add an Appliance Virtualization Platform or ESXi host. You can associate an ESXi host with an existing location.

If you are adding an standalone ESXi host to System Manager Solution Deployment Manager or to the Solution Deployment Manager client, add the standalone ESXi host using its FQDN only.

Solution Deployment Manager only supports the Avaya Aura^® Appliance Virtualization Platform and VMware ESXi hosts. If you try to add a host other than the Appliance Virtualization Platform and VMware ESXi hosts, the system displays the following error message:

Retrieving host certificate info is failed: Unable to communicate with host. Connection timed out: connect. Solution Deployment Manager only supports host management of VMware-based hosts and Avaya Appliance Virtualization Platform (AVP).

Before you begin

A location must be available.

Procedure

On the System Manager web console, click Services > Solution Deployment Manager, and then click VM Management.
In VM Management Tree, select a location.
On the Hosts tab, in the Hosts for Selected Location <location name> section, click Add.
In the New Host section, provide the Host name, IP address or FQDN, user name, and password.
Click Save.
On the Certificate dialog box, click Accept Certificate.

The system generates the certificate and adds the Appliance Virtualization Platform host. For the ESXi host, you can only accept the certificate. If the certificate is invalid, to generate certificate, see the VMware documentation.

In the VM Management Tree section, the system displays the new host in the specified location. The system also discovers applications.

To view the discovered application details, such as name and version, establish trust between the application and System Manager using the following:

On the Virtual Machines tab, in the VMs for Selected Location <location name> section, select the required virtual machine.
Click More Actions > Re-establish connection.

For more information, see "Re-establishing trust for Solution Deployment Manager elements".
Click More Actions > Refresh VM.

	Important
	When you change the IP address or FQDN of the Appliance Virtualization Platform host from the local inventory, you require Utility Services. To get the Utility Services application name during the IP address or FQDN change, refresh Utility Services to ensure that Utility Services is available.

On the Hosts tab, select the required host and click Refresh.

Next Steps

After adding a new host under VM Management Tree, the refresh host operation might fail to add the virtual machine entry under Manage Element > Inventory. This is due to the absence of Application Name and Application Version for the virtual machines discovered as part of the host addition. After adding the host, do the following:

Under VM Management Tree, establish trust for all the virtual machines that are deployed on the host.
Ensure that the system populates the Application Name and Application Version for each virtual machine.
Once you have performed a trust establishment and refresh host operation on all virtual machines, you can perform refresh operation on the host.