ONTAP Select Deployment on VMware - Creating a Single-Node Cluster

The previous post was 4-Node ONTAP Select cluster on KVM. Here we do a single-node cluster on VMware. The ONTAP Deploy CLI commands are pretty much the same, just one node/host rather than 4.

1) Login to the ONTAP Select Deploy VM over SSH. Default username = admin (default password = admin123.)
2) Add the ESX host to the list of possible hypervisors for an ONTAP node deployment, and verify the host has been added and has a status of authenticated (will take ~15 seconds):

(ONTAPdeploy)
(ONTAPdeploy) host add --host-id 192.168.0.51 --username "DEMO\administrator" --password "********" --vcenter vc1.demo.company.com
Host: 192.168.0.51 Status: authentication_in_progress
(ONTAPdeploy)
(ONTAPdeploy) host show-all
+--------------+----------------------------+---------+-----------------+
| Host         | Status                     | Type    | Cluster Created |
+--------------+----------------------------+---------+-----------------+
| 192.168.0.51 | authentication_in_progress | Unknown | False           |
+--------------+----------------------------+---------+-----------------+
(ONTAPdeploy)
(ONTAPdeploy) host show-all
+--------------+---------------+------+-----------------+
| Host         | Status        | Type | Cluster Created |
+--------------+---------------+------+-----------------+
| 192.168.0.51 | authenticated | ESX  | False           |
+--------------+---------------+------+-----------------+
(ONTAPdeploy)

3) Configure the ESX host that was just added, and after ~2 minutes verify the host has a status of “configured”.

(ONTAPdeploy)
(ONTAPdeploy) host configure --host-id 192.168.0.51 --location LAB --storage-pool esx1data --management-network ONTAP-external --data-network ONTAP-external --eval
Host configuration in progress for host: 192.168.0.51
(ONTAPdeploy)
(ONTAPdeploy) host show-all
+--------------+------------+------+-----------------+
| Host         | Status     | Type | Cluster Created |
+--------------+------------+------+-----------------+
| 192.168.0.51 | configured | ESX  | False           |
+--------------+------------+------+-----------------+
(ONTAPdeploy)

4) Create the cluster. The cluster create command takes approximately 60 seconds to complete. The cluster creation process takes approximately 30 minutes.

(ONTAPdeploy)
(ONTAPdeploy) cluster create --name cluster3 --admin-password ******** --cluster-mgmt-ip 192.168.0.103 --netmask 255.255.255.0 --gateway 192.168.0.1 --ontap-image-version 9.2 --node-names cluster3-1 --node-mgmt-ips 192.168.0.113 --node-hosts 192.168.0.51 --dns-ips 192.168.0.253 --dns-domains demo.company.com --ntp-servers 192.168.0.1
Cluster cluster3 create request accepted
(ONTAPdeploy)
(ONTAPdeploy) host show-all
+--------------+------------+------+-----------------+
| Host         | Status     | Type | Cluster Created |
+--------------+------------+------+-----------------+
| 192.168.0.51 | configured | ESX  | True            |
+--------------+------------+------+-----------------+
(ONTAPdeploy) cluster show-all
+----------+-----------------+-----------+-----------------+
| Name     | State           | Num Nodes | Cluster Mgmt IP |
+----------+-----------------+-----------+-----------------+
| cluster3 | deploying_nodes |         1 | 192.168.0.103   |
+----------+-----------------+-----------+-----------------+
(ONTAPdeploy)
(ONTAPdeploy) cluster show-all
+----------+--------+-----------+-----------------+
| Name     | State  | Num Nodes | Cluster Mgmt IP |
+----------+--------+-----------+-----------------+
| cluster3 | online |         1 | 192.168.0.103   |
+----------+--------+-----------+-----------------+
(ONTAPdeploy)

You can see the cluster powered up in the vSphere Web Client.

5) Finally use OnCommand System Manager to configure the cluster (like a ‘normal’ ONTAP cluster.)

Image: ONTAP Select cluster in the vSphere Web Client

Image: ONTAP Select cluster managed via OnCommand System Manager (model FDvM300)

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