install-vmware-cloud-gateway-for-hybrid-cloud-management

Goals

Setup the VMware Cloud Gateway to view On-Prem and VMC on AWS vCenters at the same time.

Prerequisites

Make sure you have Active Directory

• I setup a new Domain and DNS server
• Make sure your internal DNS is setup properly
• I had to setup a DNS proxy on my Palo Alto to resolve my local domains addresses
• Add DNS to your VMC on AWS NSX
• Add the FQDN Zone to your DNS Gateways in (VMC on AWS) NSX
• Verify connectivity in troubleshooting section of VMC on AWS Console
  • Resolve all and ensure they are green, in my setup one of hosts had an issue with port 902 and I only had a single DNS server, but it still worked.

Setup

Download the ISO from VMware Customer Connect

Run the UI-Installer

• Add the ISO (to my Ubuntu VM in Fusion)

•   cd /media/<name>/'VMware VCGW'/ui-installer/lin64 #path to install
  
    ./installer #command to run installer
  

• Add the values for your on-prem environment, vCenter, SSO Admin, SSO Password, etc.
• Once completed you can now browse to your VMware Cloud Gateway VM using a modern browser
  • note: I had some issues with the browser I was using for this appliance and had to try different flavors/versions as the page didn’t load all the way.
  • Use root credentials
  • Select Enable Hybrid Management
  • Enter your information
  • Cloud vCenter can be retrieved from settings of your SDDC
  • On-premises SSO (this takes some time)
  • Skipped Active Directory as it was optional and Access to Cloud vCenter I left alone as well, then clicked configure.
    • This method did not work as I had to have consistency with from an auth standpoint from VMC to On-Prem - in addition I wasn’t able to get the VMC on AWS vCenter to show up in the Cloud Gateway, I ended up setting up the following:
      • On-Prem domain controller
      • Dns zone in NSX on the VMC on AWS
      • Adding AD Auth to the On-Prem vCenter and then the VMC on AWS vCenter, dns, dns-proxy on the PA, ensuring all the fw ports were open accordingly
  • When successful you login it your VMware Cloud Gateway via a modern brower and both On-Prem and VMC on AWS vCenters will be displayed

Helpful Links Quick Start Series Video on HLM