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Adding a VMware Connection to {ProjectServer}

Use this procedure to add a VMware vSphere connection in {ProjectServer}'s compute resources. To use the CLI instead of the {ProjectWebUI}, see the CLI procedure.

Prerequisites

  • Ensure that the host and network-based firewalls are configured to allow communication from {ProjectServer} to vCenter on TCP port 443.

  • Verify that {ProjectServer} and vCenter can resolve each other’s host names.

Procedure

  1. In the {ProjectWebUI}, navigate to Infrastructure > Compute Resources, and in the Compute Resources window, click Create Compute Resource.

  2. In the Name field, enter a name for the resource.

  3. From the Provider list, select VMware.

  4. In the Description field, enter a description for the resource.

  5. In the VCenter/Server field, enter the IP address or host name of the vCenter server.

  6. In the User field, enter the user name with permission to access the vCenter’s resources.

  7. In the Password field, enter the password for the user.

  8. Click Load Datacenters to populate the list of data centers from your VMware vSphere environment.

  9. From the Datacenter list, select a specific data center to manage from this list.

  10. In the Fingerprint field, ensure that this field is populated with the fingerprint from the data center.

  11. From the Display Type list, select a console type, for example, VNC or VMRC. Note that VNC consoles are unsupported on VMware ESXi 6.5 and later.

  12. Optional: In the VNC Console Passwords field, select the Set a randomly generated password on the display connection checkbox to secure console access for new hosts with a randomly generated password. You can retrieve the password for the VNC console to access guest virtual machine console from the libvirtd host from the output of the following command:

    # virsh edit your_VM_name
<graphics type='vnc' port='-1' autoport='yes' listen='0.0.0.0' passwd='your_randomly_generated_password'>

    The password randomly generates every time the console for the virtual machine opens, for example, with virt-manager.

  13. From the Enable Caching list, you can select whether to enable caching of compute resources. For more information, see [Caching_of_Compute_Resources_{context}].

  14. Click the Locations and Organizations tabs and verify that the values are automatically set to your current context. You can also add additional contexts.

  15. Click Submit to save the connection.

CLI procedure

  • Create the connection with the hammer compute-resource create command. Select Vmware as the --provider and set the instance UUID of the data center as the --uuid:

    # hammer compute-resource create \
--datacenter "My_Datacenter" \
--description "vSphere server at vsphere.example.com" \
--locations "My_Location" \
--name "My_vSphere" \
--organizations "My_Organization" \
--password "My_Password" \
--provider "Vmware" \
--server "vsphere.example.com" \
--user "My_User"