So in this video at the load balancer,
we're going to go ahead and make sure we have a license that
let us create our clouds and also set up the credentials we're going to need to
log
into the vCenter and also to the NSX manager.
So this is the interface to log into the NSX advanced load balancer.
And when it's initially deployed and after you've given it like an hour to
initialize,
it's going to ask you to set up a password for the admin account.
So I already did that part, but everything else is just as it was when it was
fresh deployed.
So I'm going to go ahead and log in here as admin using the password I set up WEBVTT X-TIMESTAMP-MAP=LOCAL:00:00:00.000,MPEGTS:900000
So I'm going to go ahead and log in here as admin using the password I set up
for that admin account.
And we'll click log in to log into the controller.
It's encouraging me to register with cloud services.
So go ahead and close that.
And for the licensing, we're going to go ahead and click on this administration
tab right here.
So with the administration of the top selected on the left, we're going to go
down to licensing.
So currently I have this big red icon that represents bad news.
So we'll go ahead and click on the gear next to licensing right there.
So here currently with the enterprise, we have cloud services here. WEBVTT X-TIMESTAMP-MAP=LOCAL:00:00:00.000,MPEGTS:900000
So here currently with the enterprise, we have cloud services here.
I currently have zero of zero service core licenses.
So what I want to do is click on this radio button right there for the
enterprise here,
which is going to give us 22 service core licenses.
So I'll go ahead and click on save.
And then once we click on save, it'll take maybe 30 to 60 seconds for it to go
ahead and have that kick in.
And at the bottom right here, it has a little indicator that it's still working
on it.
All right, that looks better.
So on the left, we're still in the licensing section.
It'll make collapse out on the left, give us a little bit more room. WEBVTT X-TIMESTAMP-MAP=LOCAL:00:00:00.000,MPEGTS:900000
It'll make collapse out on the left, give us a little bit more room.
So we could add another license key if we had it or upload a license file.
So if we look down here, currently we have some service cores and some SC VCPs.
And again, the SC is an acronym for service engine.
That's the data playing component of the load balancer.
So for the expiration here, they'll be based on the free 30 days that they're
giving us when you initially deploy it, at least with this version of the
advanced load balancer.
All right.
So now the licensing address.
The next thing we're going to do is set up user credentials.
So still here under the administration tab up on top, on the left, we're going WEBVTT X-TIMESTAMP-MAP=LOCAL:00:00:00.000,MPEGTS:900000
So still here under the administration tab up on top, on the left, we're going
to go down
and expand user credentials and then click here on user credentials.
And these are the sets of credentials that we're going to be using when we log
into vCenter and NSX, respectively, think of it like a password manager that
has
the user names and passwords that you need for when you need to log into
something.
So here under user credentials, we're going to create our first one.
And let's start off with the vCenter.
Let me bring back our little topology here.
So we'll click on create and again, sitting here at the load balancer
controller.
Let's go ahead and set the credentials that we'll need eventually to log into WEBVTT X-TIMESTAMP-MAP=LOCAL:00:00:00.000,MPEGTS:900000
Let's go ahead and set the credentials that we'll need eventually to log into
the vCenter.
So for the credentials type, we'll click right here.
And then from the drop down, we'll go ahead and choose vCenter.
And now it knows that we're creating an entry effectively that we can then use
to log
into vCenter.
Let's close our VCSA credentials.
And then as we scroll down, we're going to need to put those in.
So I've supplied the user name and the password.
And for the entry here, I'm going to go ahead and add a little bit more,
just remind myself of which vCenter it is to leave the vCenter.35.
So I'm going to go ahead and just put at dot 35. WEBVTT X-TIMESTAMP-MAP=LOCAL:00:00:00.000,MPEGTS:900000
So I'm going to go ahead and just put at dot 35.
And that way, when I see the name, I'll make sure I'm matching it up with the
correct vCenter
because I have a few of them running in my lab environment.
So with that in place, we'll click on safe.
All right.
So now we have our vCenter credentials already go and we need them.
And let's create another one for NSX environment.
So for the NSX environment, it is the NSX manager on my management network at
192.168.1.21.
And the user name there is admin.
So let's create an entry for the NSX login as well. WEBVTT X-TIMESTAMP-MAP=LOCAL:00:00:00.000,MPEGTS:900000
So let's create an entry for the NSX login as well.
So we'll click on create for the type.
We'll go ahead and use the drop down and we'll choose NSX.
Also up on top, it has general.
If you just scroll down, that has everything.
And then these additional tabs, if we click on them, it's simply takes you to
that section.
So right now we're general so we can scroll down to NSX or you just click here.
Take you to that section.
So from the top, we're going to go ahead and call this credentials for NSX at
dot 21.
And then we'll scroll down and put the user
and password that'll be used to log into that NSX manager. WEBVTT X-TIMESTAMP-MAP=LOCAL:00:00:00.000,MPEGTS:900000
and password that'll be used to log into that NSX manager.
So with those supplied, we'll go ahead and click on save.
So when we take the next logical step and create the logical NSX cloud and
integrate
the load balancer, the advanced load balancer with our NSX environment, when it
asks us
for credentials for logging into the NSX manager, we can simply point to these
credentials that we are set up and they'll use those on the back end to
interact and
log in with those systems.
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