Hyper Converged Infrastructure (HCI/aSV)

Sangfor HCI and aSV provide a unified infrastructure combining compute, storage, networking, and built-in security to simplify deployment, operations, and services.
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Hyper Converged Infrastructure (HCI/aSV) {{ breadTitle }} User Manual HCI Platform Configuration Guide VMware Management Managing VMware Virtual Machines Create A New Virtual Machine
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Create A New Virtual Machine

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Description

HCI supports operations such as creating, deleting, starting, shutting down, suspending, restarting, powering off, and opening the console for VMware.

Precautions

None.

Prerequisites

  1. To shut down the virtual machine on VMware, you need to install VMtools on the VMware virtual machine.
  2. To open the console of the VMware virtual machine, you need to install the VMware Remote Console tool.
  3. To create a new VMware virtual machine on the HCI platform, you need a corresponding virtual machine template on the VMware vCenter.
  4. For VMware virtual machine, first, install the Sangfor vmTools, and then backup and restore the IP to HCI.

Steps

  1. On Compute > VMware vCenter, click New.

  1. Select Deploy Virtual Machine from Template.
  2. Select a virtual machine template and click Next.

  1. Configure the Name, Group, Run Location, Datastore, and hardware-related information of the virtual machine. Click OK after the configuration is complete.