vSphere with Tanzu - Enable Supervisor Cluster using PowerCLI

In previous post we looked at how to manually enable Supervisor cluster on a vSphere cluster. Now we'll reproduce the same steps from GUI in a small script using PowerCLI. 

PowerCLI 12.1.0 brought new cmdlets for VMware.VimAutomation.WorkloadManagement module and one of this is Enable-WMCluster. We will be using this cmdlet to enable Tanzu supervisor cluster. In the following example we'll be using NSX-T, but the cmdlet can be used with distributed switches. 

The following script is very simple .First we need to connect to vCenter Server and NSX manager

Connect-VIServer -Server vc11.my.lab

Connect-NsxtServer -Server nsxt11.my.lab

Next we define the variables (all variable that were in the UI wizard).

The cluster where we enable Tanzu, the content library and the storage policies:

$vsphereCluster = Get-Cluster "MYCLUSTER"

$contentLibrary = "Tanzu subscribed"

$ephemeralStoragePolicy = "Tanzu gold"

$imageStoragePolicy = "Tanzu silver"

$masterStoragePolicy = "Tanzu gold"

Management network info for Supervisor Cluster VMs

$mgmtNetwork = Get-VirtualNetwork "Mgmt-Network"

$mgmtNetworkMode = "StaticRange"

$mgtmNetworkStartIPAddress = "192.168.100.160"

$mgtmNetworkRangeSize = "5"

$mgtmNetworkGateway = "192.168.100.1"

$mgtmNetworkSubnet = "255.255.255.0"

$distributedSwitch = Get-VDSwitch -Name "Distributed-Switch"

DNS and NTP servers

$masterDnsSearchDomain = "my.lab"

$masterDnsServer = "192.168.100.2"

$masterNtpServer = "192.168.100.5"

$workerDnsServer = "192.168.100.2"

Tanzu details - size and external and internal IP subnets

$size = "Tiny" 

$egressCIDR = "10.10.100.0/24"

$ingressCIDR = "10.10.200.0/24"

$serviceCIDR = "10.244.0.0/23"

$podCIDR = "10.96.0.0/23"

One more parameter needs to be provided: Edge cluster ID. For this we use NSX-T manager connectivity and 

$edgeClusterSvc = Get-NsxtService -Name com.vmware.nsx.edge_clusters

$results = $edgeClusterSvc.list().results

$edgeClusterId = ($results | Where {$_.display_name -eq "tanzu-edge-cluster"}).id

Last thing is to put all the parameters together in the cmdlet and run it against the vSphere cluster object

$vsphereCluster | Enable-WMCluster `

-SizeHint $size `

-ManagementVirtualNetwork $mgmtNetwork `

-ManagementNetworkMode $mgmtNetworkMode `

-ManagementNetworkStartIPAddress $mgtmNetworkStartIPAddress `

-ManagementNetworkAddressRangeSize $mgtmNetworkRangeSize `

-ManagementNetworkGateway $mgtmNetworkGateway `

-ManagementNetworkSubnetMask $mgtmNetworkSubnet `

-MasterDnsServerIPAddress $masterDnsServer `

-MasterNtpServer $masterNtpServer `

-MasterDnsSearchDomain $masterDnsSearchDomain `

-DistributedSwitch $distributedSwitch `

-NsxEdgeClusterId $edgeClusterId `

-ExternalEgressCIDRs $egressCIDR `

-ExternalIngressCIDRs $ingressCIDR `

-ServiceCIDR $serviceCIDR `

-PodCIDRs $podCIDR `

-WorkerDnsServer $workerDnsServer `

-EphemeralStoragePolicy $ephemeralStoragePolicy `

-ImageStoragePolicy $imageStoragePolicy `

-MasterStoragePolicy $masterStoragePolicy `

-ContentLibrary $contentLibrary

And as simple as that, the cluster will be enabled (in a scripted and repeatable way).