VMC vCenter

In this guide we will be connecting your on-prem vCenter to your vCenter in your VMware Cloud on AWS SDDC

Pre-Reqs:

• Your on-prem vCenter needs to be:

  • vSphere 6.0 Updatge 3 patch c or later
  • vSphere 6.5 patch d or later

• NTP: Tolerate a time skew of up to 10 minuets

• A VPN or a Direct Connect exists

• Max Latency: 100 msec roundtrip

• An On-Prem AD group which will be assigned Cloud Administrator Permmisions

• Login credentials for a user who has a minimum of read-only access to the Based DN for uses and groups in your AD

• On-premises DNS server configured

• Cloud vCenter resolution should be set to resolve Private IP

• On-Premises Firewall allows required ports

• Management Firewall on the cloud side allows required ports

• Ensure that you have the admin credentials for your on-premises vSphere SSO domain

Port Diagram for Hybrid Linked Mode Communication

Test connectivity

Login to the Cloud Console and click on your SDDC and go to the settings tab:

1. Select Hybrid Linked Mode
2. Enter information for your on-prem servers
3. Click Run all tests

If successful you can move on to next step, if you have errors check to make sure your VPN or Direct Connect are setup correctly and check firewall ports are open in VMC and on your local firewall

Login to your SDDC vCenter in VMware Cloud on AWS

In the upper right, click on Open vCenter

Now click on Show Credentials

1. Click to copy the password to the clipboard
2. Click Open vCenter

Use the cloudadmin@vmclocal account and the credentials you just copied

Navigate to Administration

1. Click Menu
2. Click Administration

Configure Hybrid Linked Mode

1. Click Linked Domains
2. Click add identity source

Enter Identity Source inforamtion and credentials

1. Select source type and enter required infromation
2. Browse to SSL certificates
3. Click Add

Click Configuration and Verify indentity source added

Go back to linked domains

1. Enter your On-Prem PSC FQDN and user name and password
2. Click Link

Domain Successfully linked

Click OK

On-prem and VMC vCenter now linked

Logout of vCenter

#Login back into your VMC SDDC vCenter with an On-prem domain account

Verify you can browse local vCenter and your VMC SDDC vCenter

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