Procedure: OVA/OVF / Provision appliance with ClusterT vCenter

Tags Technical

Objective

  • To provide instruction for provisioning OVA appliance with ClusterT vCenter

Scope

  • ClusterT is a test environment for Enterprise Operations
    • All VMs provisioned here are subject to being powered off and/or deleted without notice
    • Do not plan long-term test in this environment
  • Owner of test appliances/VMs should review the usage of the appliances/VMs periodically, no less than once per semester

User

  • Network Administrator

Environment

Procedure


  1. Log in to vSphere HTML5 client  at https://vcentertest.itapps.miamioh.edu with IT account UniqueID
  2. From the drop-down menu, choose Shortcuts, then Hosts and Clusters, and select the following in the order given:
    • muavvctd01.mcs.miamioh.edu
    • HoytTest
    • Right-click on ClusterT​​​​​​ and choose Deploy OVF Template
  3. Follow instruction until it is finished