Adding and deleting clusters

Procedure to add clusters to VCF as a Service instances

1. In the VMware Solutions console, click Resources > VCF as a Service from the left navigation panel.
2. On the VMware Cloud Foundation as a Service page, click the single-tenant Cloud Director site name.
3. Click the Resource pool tab.
4. Locate the resource pool where you want to add the cluster and expand the cluster section. Then, click Add cluster.
5. In the Add cluster pane, specify the settings for the new cluster.
   1. Specify the cluster name.
   2. Select the host quantity.
      • For NFS-only storage, select a minimum of 2.
      • For vSAN + optional NFS storage, select a minimum of 7.
   3. Select the profile storage type.
   4. Select the host profile.
   5. For vSAN, optionally enable vSAN de-duplication and compression.
   6. Review the cost, accept the terms, and click Next.
6. Specify the attached NFS storage settings.
7. Click Order to confirm.

Procedure to add stretch vSAN high availability clusters to VCF as a Service instances

Stretch vSAN high availability clusters support only Sapphire Rapids profiles.

1. In the VMware Solutions console, click Resources > VCF as a Service from the left navigation panel.
2. On the VMware Cloud Foundation as a Service page, click the single-tenant Cloud Director site name.
3. Click the Resource pool tab.
4. Locate the resource pool where you want to add the cluster and expand the cluster section. Then, click Add cluster.
5. In the Add cluster pane, specify the settings for the new cluster.
   1. Specify the cluster name.
   2. Select the host quantity. A minimum of 14 is required for stretch vSAN storage.
   3. Select the host profile.
   4. Review the cost, accept the terms, and click Order.

Before you delete clusters

Workload virtual machines (VMs) are deployed in virtual data centers (VDCs) that logically exist in the scope of a resource pool. Resource pools physically consist of one or more VMware vCenter clusters. When the resource pool contains multiple clusters and one cluster is deleted, all VMs running in that cluster are migrated to other clusters in the same resource pool.

VMs deployed to a specific storage performance tier are only migrated to the same performance tier of storage in the remaining clusters. You must ensure that the remaining clusters have compatible storage performance layers of the deleted cluster. The remaining clusters must also have enough CPU and memory to contain the VMs of the deleted cluster.

If not enough CPU, RAM, or equivalent storage performance for the cluster exists, the delete operation does not succeed. When the delete cluster operations are not successful, workloads are not impacted, and the operation is retried. Resource constraints are resolved by either stopping or deleting VMs or ensuring other clusters in the resource pool have the resources to support migrated workload VMs.

Procedure to delete clusters from VCF as a Service instances

1. In the VMware Solutions console, click Resources > VCF as a Service from the left navigation panel.
2. On the VMware Cloud Foundation as a Service page, click the single-tenant Cloud Director site name.
3. Click the Resource pool tab.
4. On the Clusters tab, locate the cluster that you want to delete.
5. Click the vertical overflow menu next to the Status column for that cluster and click Delete cluster.
6. Confirm that you want to delete.

Related links

• Planning the deployment
• Adding resource pools
• Viewing and deleting VCF as a Service Cloud Director sites