pbulteel/nested-esxi

Nested ESXi rollout with NSX-T

Nested-ESXi

This is Nested ESXi project that will deploy 5 ESXi hosts with 4 PNICs, 3 disks, create two clusters (MGMT and Compute), add those hosts there, create new latest version of vDS (7.0 at the moment), move last two PNICs to vDS and add port-groups.

Finally NSX-T Manager and two NSX-T Edges will be rolled out on a new infrastructure.

A set of YouTube videos were created by HowToVeeam that shows you how the process works. This is what lead me to copying this repo and updating it.

Workflows need to be executed in order starting with the first one.

Workflow 1 - creating the ESXi template

cd Workflow 1  

Place ks.cfg file on an NFS server and adjust esxi.pkrvars.hcl file to reflect your environment, or use the http server provided by packer by using "http" option.

packer build -var-file=esxi.pkrvars.hcl esxi.pkr.hcl

Watch the video on YouTube

Workflow 2 - deploy 5 ESXi VMs

cd ../Workflow 2

Adjust terraform.tfvars and variables.tf files to reflect your environment.

Watch the video on YouTube

terraform init
terraform plan
terraform apply -auto-approve

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_2mLoBNFKE

Workflow 3 - configure the environment with a DC, adding ESX hosts, etc

cd ../Workflow 3

Adjust terraform.tfvars and variables.tf files to reflect your environment.

terraform init
terraform plan
terraform apply -auto-approve

Watch the video on YouTube

Workflow 4 - deploy NSX-T hosts, install and configure it

cd ../Workflow 4

adjust hosts.yml file and run the playbook

ansible-playbook deploy-nsx.yml