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Admins can follow a clear path to deploy Tanzu to a vSphere environment. We completed seven tasks (see Figure 2), each involving multiple processes and actions. This section explains, in some technical detail, how we added Tanzu, and it offers guidance on how to prepare for the deployment.
Figure 2: Tasks required to add VMware Tanzu to a VMware vSphere 7.0 Update 1 environment on Dell EMC PowerEdge R740xd servers.
Source: Principled Technologies.
Adding Tanzu to the vSphere environment requires some planning to meet all prerequisites and configure networking for the initial deployment. Previous versions of VMware Tanzu supported only environments with VMware NSX network virtualization. However, vSphere 7.0 Update 1 supports the use of a load balancer appliance along with standard vSphere Distributed vSwitches (DvS) that could ease deployment for admins. For our deployment, we chose to use the latter approach with HAProxy, a free load balancer and proxy server for TCP- and HTTP- based applications.
See the science behind the report for details on what we did and information on how to obtain HAProxy.