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Creating a Mutlicloud Blueprint

As we all know cloud agnostic blueprints in vRA 8.x can be deployed in different cloud platforms. Today we will see how we can make use of it deploying in different vCenter instances.

Steps we are going to follow are
1. Create Two Cloud Zones
2. Create a Project
3. Create a Cloud-Agnostic Blueprint
  • Modify the YAML Code in Your Blueprint to Control the Cloud Machine
  • Configure the Customization Specification and Network Address
  • Modify the YAML Code in Your Blueprint to Select the Cloud Network
4. Deploy your Blueprints on your cloud

Step 1: Create two cloud zones in each vCenter server with capability tag Zone1 and Zone2


Step 2: Create a Project that has both newly created cloud zones added into it



Step 3: Create a Cloud-Agnostic Blueprint

Let's create a blueprint that will deploy a simple machine and network on either vCenter 1 or vCenter 2





Step 4: Deploy your Blueprints on your cloud

Based on user input selection machine and network will be deployed in respective vCenter instance.






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