Create the vCenter Tenant
About this task
Add the VMware vCenter Server to the EFA vCenter Service instance. Do the following:
Procedure
-
Use the
efa tenant create
command to create your tenant entry. When creating your tenant, ensure that you provision adequate number of VLANs that are available for use. -
Once you have created the new tenant, verify that the devices you added are added to the
correct fabric. Use the
efa inventory device list
command to do so.
Results
This command will create a tenant entry that is used when registering a VMware vCenter Server with EFA.
Example
This command creates a tenant entry with the name vcenter-10.24.85.111.
$ efa tenant create --name vcenter-10.24.85.111 --vlan-range 2-4096 --port 10.9.9.20[0/10],10.9.9.30[0/10]
Use this command to verify if the devices that you have added to the fabric are associated with the correct fabric.
$ efa inventory device list root@ubuntu:~# efa inventory device list +------------+-----------+-------+--------------+----------+-------+------+--------------+ | IP Address | Host Name | Model | Chassis Name | Firmware | ASN | Role | Fabric | +------------+-----------+-------+--------------+----------+-------+------+--------------+ | 10.9.9.20 | FRE-134 | | | | 65001 | leaf | efa-fabric-1 | | 10.9.9.30 | FRE-135 | | | | 65001 | leaf | efa-fabric-1 | +------------+-----------+-------+--------------+----------+-------+------+--------------+ Device Details --- Time Elapsed: 32.932576ms ---