Using the Contrail and VMware vCenter User Interfaces to Manage the Network For Contrail Release 5.0.2
You can install Contrail to work with the VMware vCenter Server version 6.5 and use the Contrail user interface and the vCenter user interface to configure and manage the integrated Contrail system.
Overview: User Interfaces for Contrail Integration with VMware vCenter
This topic shows how to use the Contrail user interface and the vCenter user interface to configure and manage features of a Contrail VMware integrated system.
The two user interfaces are available after installing the integrated Contrail system, see Installing and Provisioning VMware vCenter with Contrail .
When Contrail is integrated with VMware vCenter, the following two user interfaces are used to manage and configure features of the system.
Contrail Administration User Interface
The Contrail UI is an administrator’s user interface. It provides a view of all components managed by the Contrail controller.
To log in to the Contrail UI, use your Contrail server main IP address URL as follows:
https://<Contrail IP>:8143
Then log in using your registered Contrail account administrator credentials.
Upon successful login, the Contrail vCenter user interface is displayed.
Feature Configuration for Contrail vCenter
This section shows how to use the Contrail UI for the Contrail vCenter integrated system.
Creating a Virtual Network
This section describes how to create a virtual network using the Contrail UI and the Contrail vCenter UI.
Create Virtual Network – Contrail UI
After logging in to the Contrail UI, select Configure > Networking > Networks to access the Networks window. Ensure you are in the vCenter project.
At Networks, click the plus icon (+)to access the Create Network window.
The following figure shows the creation of a virtual network named Green-VN. Click the plus icon (+) next to IPAM to add a subnet that is part of this virtual network.
Click Save to create the virtual network.
Delete Virtual Network – Contrail UI
You can delete a virtual network in either the Contrail UI. This section shows you how to delete a virtual network in the Contrail UI.
In the Contrail UI, select Configure > Networking > Networks to display Contrail network information.
Select the network you want to delete and click the delete icon.
No VMs or templates must be using this virtual network before it is deleted.
A Confirm window is displayed. Click Confirm to delete the selected network.
Creating a Virtual Machine
Use the vCenter client interface to create a virtual machine for your VMware vCenter Contrail integrated system. This section describes how to create a virtual machine using a virtual machine template from the vCenter client interface.
Create a Virtual Machine – vCenter UI
From the vCenter UI, right-click on the cluster and select Deploy OVF Template.
Select the virtual machine name. When you are finished, click Next.
Select the compute resource on which to spawn the virtual machine. When you are finished, click Next.
Specify the storage location for the virtual machine. When you are finished, click Next.
Select the Destination Network as Green-VN which you created in the Contrail UI.
On the Ready to complete window, review all of the virtual machine definitions that you have selected for the template.
If all the selections are correct, click Finish. This spawns the virtual machine.
You return to the main vCenter UI window. Navigate to the console of the VM (yVM) you just spawned to see that it has been assigned an IP address from the Green-VN you created in the Contrail UI.
Once the virtual machine is launched, you can view the virtual machine from the Contrail UI. Select Monitor > Networking > Instances. All the virtual machines are displayed in the Instances Summary window.
