Following on the heels of the release of the VMware SDDC Ansible roles inside the Virtual Elephant GitHub space, here is a recording of several of the roles being leveraged to deploy and configure a set of ESXi nodes (advanced settings, DVS and VMkernel configuration) within a vCenter cluster, deploy an NSX-v Manager through ovftool and the deployment of the NSX-v Controllers.
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To avoid any copyright issues, there is no sound or music playing in the background. The video was recorded and then time-lapsed to make it a quick-view of the deployment. Deploying the NSX-v Manager and Controllers were the longest-running tasks, but in it’s raw form the demo video was just under 30 minutes to perform all of the tasks you see in the video.
Leveraging Ansible can greatly enhance and reduce the time it takes a vSphere Administrator to deploy a VMware SDDC environment!
Enjoy.
