Recommended Audience: Anybody with an Infrastructure, networking, vSphere, and NSX -V background.
What to expect from this post: Prepping the NSX-T environment for configuring “workload management” in vSphere7 with Kubernetes.
NSX-T Implementation Order > Deploy NSX Manager from the OVF Template
Here are the high-level implementation steps that we’re going to follow to deploy and configure NSX-T Manager, so we can make it ready for configuring “Workload Management” on vSphere 7.0 to enable Tanzu Kubernetes Grid.
NSX-T Manager appliance deployment on vSphere
Download the NSX Unified Appliance ISO > Deploy it into the vSphere 7.0 Management Pod: This is straightforward and honestly, I’m just filling up the page with screenshots…
Now, power on the NSX Manager Virtual Machine (nsx-t01) > make sure to create a DNS record on your DNS server > in my case I have a Windows Server acting as a DNS/DHCP/AD Server > go to Step02.