VCenter Appliance Installation on Cloud

Why this matters: this appliance is what actually connects your VMware Cloud environment to Mavvrik — until it's running, Mavvrik has no visibility into that environment at all. Getting the network and config settings right during this install is what determines whether data starts flowing cleanly or you end up troubleshooting a connection issue afterward.

Before you start: you'll need admin access to your VMware Cloud console, the gateway firewall rules already configured (see Datacenter Gateway firewall configuration), and the Mavvrik config parameters ready to paste in during setup.

Below are the steps to install the vCenter application :

Select the datacenter/cluster/host to deploy the appliance. Right click on the datacenter/cluster/host resource and select deploy OVF template.
Select the type of source you want to deploy an OVA template ( For URL copy it from Mavvrik )

Enter the name and select the location where you want to deploy the OVF template

Name the OVF deployment and select its location

Select the resource or cluster where you want to deploy the OVF Template

Select the compute resource for the OVF template

Review the details you have entered and procedure to next

Agree to the terms and conditions

Select the storage location

Select the type of network

Select the network for the OVF deployment

On Customize template, Enter your VMware cloud Host IP, Admin Password, and Admin Username inside the VMware cloud Configuration Category
Paste the configuration parameters copied in Mavvrik UI into the Config Data field under Mavvrik Configuration as shown below:

Configure the VMware Cloud appliance template

Click on next to finish the OVF template installation.
Turn on the VM and wait for some time for Datacenter data to show up, Once successful it will start showing up on the Datacenter page.