With identity integrated, the next step is connecting VRA to vCenter environments and defining the infrastructure profiles that control placement, networking, storage, and VM sizing.
Registering vCenter with VRA
Go to Assembler > Select Infrastructure → Connections → Cloud Accounts
Choose vCenter or VCF
Enter vCenter Details
Click Add to complete the registration
If you have multiple vCenters, add each one.
They will appear as separate regions under Cloud Zones.
Once vCenters are added, verify that both appear under Cloud zones. These zones will later be assigned to projects.
Create Storage Profile
Storage Profiles define which datastores VRA can use for provisioning
Pick one of our datastore
Without a storage profile, VRA cannot place VMs on vCenter storage so our profile is now ready
Create Network Profile
Go to Infrastructure → Network Profiles → New – Pick the cloud account – Enter name for our network as vm-mgmt-network
Configure Network and provide
- Gateway
- Domain
- DNS
- CIDR
Our network is ready
Go to IP Ranges section to add a IP pool.
Manage IP Ranges → New Range
- Name
- Start IP
- End IP
Click Save
These IPs will be assigned to VMs deployed through VRA.
Our network pool is now ready
Creating Flavor Mappings
Flavor mappings define CPU and memory configurations
Go to Infrastructure → Configure → Flavor Mappings.
Three flavours are ready for consumption
Create Image Mapping
Once VM templates exist in vCenter, sync them into VRA.
The templates available on the vCenter are discovered
Creating Image Mappings
Once VM templates exist in vCenter, sync them into VRA. To Map Image to vRA. go to Infrastructure → Configure → Image Mapping > New Image Mapping
- Give Image a name
- Account
- Choose the image
Click Save and that creates the image mapping
This allows blueprints to reference images
With compute, storage, network, and image resources now defined, the environment is ready for blueprint creation and catalog publishing.