The following prerequisites must be met before implementing vSphere with Tanzu on PowerFlex. They are meant to be high level as some tasks related to them are covered in the guide.
- VMware vCenter 7.0.3 must be installed and configured according to the vSphere Tanzu documentation. This configuration includes enabling Dynamic Resource Scheduler (DRS) and High Availability (HA) on the ESXi cluster that is used with Tanzu.
- If using VSI for SDC installation and datastore creation, it must be deployed and registered in the vCenter.
- The NSX Advanced Load Balancer must be installed and configured per the Tanzu documentation.
- A PowerFlex system must be installed and configured with storage available for provisioning. Although both SCSI and NVMe/TCP are used in this solution, only one type of host connectivity to vSphere is required which could also be NFS. The type of PowerFlex system (for example, appliance, custom node) is not critical to the solution.
- Licenses must be obtained for PowerFlex, NSX Advanced Load Balancer, and VMware (vCenter and ESXi).