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Viewing VMware Cloud Foundation instances

Viewing VMware Cloud Foundation instances

View the summary and detailed information of the VMware Cloud Foundation™ instances that are provisioned in your account.

Procedure to view a summary of VMware Cloud Foundation instances

  1. In the VMware Solutions console, click Resources > Cloud Foundation from the left navigation pane.
  2. In the VMware Cloud Foundation table, review the name, location, creation time, and status of the provisioned instances.

Procedure to view details for VMware Cloud Foundation instances

  1. In the VMware Cloud Foundation table, click an instance name.

  2. On the Summary tab, review the general information of the instance: the deployment infrastructure type, the resource group in which the resources are deployed, the IBM Cloud® Virtual Private Cloud (IBM Cloud VPC) region, and the zone where the instance is deployed.

  3. Click the Infrastructure tab:

    1. In the Domains table, review the domain name and type, the number of clusters, the NSX-T Edge cluster uplinks and nodes, and the public floating IP addresses in the domain.
    2. Click the table row to view the detailed information of the selected domain.
      • On the cluster details, view the number of hosts in this cluster.
      • Click the host profile to view the detailed information of the profile.
      • Click the storage type to view the disk information.
      • Click the subnets to view the IBM Cloud VPC subnets created for this cluster. On the subnets table, click a subnet name to go to the subnet detail page.
      • On the hosts table, view the bare metal server name, the root user password, and the creation time. To go to the bare metal server details page on the IBM Cloud VPC console, click the bare metal server name.

  4. On the Access Information tab, view the default username and password for the VMware Cloud Foundation instance.

    • In the Management domain section, view the hostname, FQDN, and IP addresses for vCenter Server, VMware NSX-T Data Center, SDDC Manager, and VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle Manager. You can view or copy the password by clicking the icons.
    • For VMware Cloud Foundation instances with Standard architecture, in the Workload domain section, view the hostname, FQDN, and IP addresses for vCenter Server and VMware NSX-T Data Center. You can view or copy the password by clicking the icons.
    • In the Windows jump server section, you can view the public and private IP addresses and admin user password of the Windows jump server. If you did not select to create the jump server, the section is not displayed.

  5. On the Patches tab, view the available patches that you can apply to VMware Cloud Foundation components, such as NSX Manager, vCenter Server, and ESXi.

    • In the Patches table, review the product version and the patch ID.
    • Click the View details link to view the patch details.
    • In the Status details, click Enable patch to apply it. The patch status will change to Applying patch. If the patch is applied successfully, then the status will change to Enabled. If it fails, the status will change to Failed and a warning message is displayed.

All patches that are listed in the table are from VMware® by Broadcom. For more information about individual product patch releases, see Applying individual product updates to VMware Cloud Foundation environments using Async Patch tool.