Setting up the VMware cluster

Follow these basic steps if you are planning on using VM harvesting with a VMware cluster. Refer to your VMware documentation for more details. The flow of the steps for setting up your VMware cluster is as follows.

Procedure

  1. Add a vCluster to the vCenter Server.
  2. Add hosts to the vCluster. These hosts will be managed by the vCenter Server.
  3. Set up VMs on the hosts.
  4. Install IBM® Spectrum Symphony on the VMs and join the VMs to the IBM Spectrum Symphony cluster.