With the release of VCF9, lots of customers, have existing vSphere environments and would like to manage this environments under VCF Operations in VCF9 , in the below blog, we’ll go through importing a simple vSphere 8.0 update 3 environment under VCF Ops.

The existing environment to be imported has the following components:

• vCenter 8.0 u3 (running on the same cluster
• 2 ESX hosts 8.0 u3
• NFS Storage, Truenas
• Lifecycle image is applied to both hosts
• VCF 9.0.1
  • Single Management Workload Domain

Below are the steps to import this vSphere 8 environment, under VCF 9 using VCF Ops

• Login to VCF Ops –> Inventory –> Add Workload Domain –>Import vCenter

• Add the Domain name for the imported environment

• Select Specify an external vCenter and add the vCenter Details as per the below

• Confirm the certificate thumbprint

• Pre-checks passed successfully

• Added the NSX Manager details to be deployed during import

• During the final validation, I received this error

“The NSX install image for version 4.2.3.1.0-24954727 was not found for vcsa02.testlab.com”

“For vCenter < 9.0.0.0, 3-node NSX is required for vcsa02.testlab.com”

I edited the configuration of NSX to be deployed as a cluster and created the appropriate DNS records

• Got a different error this time

Since I want to use NSX version 9, I’ll upgrade vCenter to 9 and retry the same operation again in the next blog