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Adding ESXi servers to VCF for Classic - Automated multizone instances

Adding ESXi servers to VCF for Classic - Automated multizone instances

New deployments of VMware Cloud Foundation for Classic - Automated multizone instances are not supported. For existing multizone instances, you can still add and delete clusters, add and delete ESXi servers, or add and delete storage.

You can expand the capacity of your existing VCF for Classic - Automated multizone instances by adding VMware® ESXi servers to your witness, consolidated, workload, and gateway clusters.

Procedure to add ESXi servers to VCF for Classic - Automated multizone instances

  1. In the VMware Solutions console, click Resources > VCF for Classic from the left navigation panel.

  2. In the VCF for Classic table, click the instance for which you want to expand capacity.

  3. Click the Infrastructure tab.

  4. In the applicable cluster table, click the cluster to which you want to add ESXi servers.

  5. In the ESXi servers section, click Add.

  6. On the Add ESXi server side pane, enter the number of servers that you want to add. You can keep the Maintenance mode checkbox selected to add servers during maintenance mode.

    When you provision new ESXi servers, virtual machines (VMs) are immediately migrated to the new servers if you do not select the Maintenance mode checkbox. You do not receive a confirmation message before the migration begins.

  7. Review the estimated price and click Create.

Results after you add ESXi servers to VCF for Classic - Automated multizone instances

  1. You might experience a slight delay on the console while the instance status changes from Available to Modifying. Allow the operation to complete before you make more changes to the instance.

  2. You are notified by email that your request to add ESXi servers is being processed. On the console, the status of the cluster that is associated with the ESXi servers is changed to Modifying.

  3. If you do not see the new ESXi servers added to the list in the cluster, check your email or console notifications for more details.

    If you are adding ESXi servers during maintenance mode, VMs are not migrated to the new servers until you remove maintenance mode.