MinIO

MinIO Quickstart Guide – Updated for vSphere 8 U3 (VCF 5.2.1) Supervisor Service
When I decided to deploy MinIO to my “vSphere Supervisor” Lab I of course warmed up my search skills. Did some finger streches and punded on the keyboard. I found quite a lot of info out there. However reading through blogs and docs, and tigers and bears. I found, that what was out there, got me 85% of the way there. The amazing coimmunity of support just could not get me over the finish line. Everything I found was 7 U3 or before. Luckily I had the time and contacts to find the answers to what buttons to push to get thissimply task done. So to help give back here is what I quickly put together as a QuikStart Step by Step on getting Minio Installed and ready to go.

- In vCenter – From the Berger Menu – Select Workload Management

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In Workload Management Select Services
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Click ADD under Add new Service

Click the URL Discover and download available Supervisor Services here.

Click the URL vSAN Data Persistance Platform (vDPP) Services:

Click the URL for Downlod version: Minio 2.0.10 to download the deployment yaml for the Minio Service.

Go back to vCenter and click Upload, select the downloaded minio yaml file

Click NEXT

Accept the EULA
Click FINISH

Once the Service is deployed to vSphere it needs to added to the Supervisor
Click ACTIONS under Minio
Select Manage Service

Select your Superviser
Click NEXT

No Values file for Minio
Click FINISH

Wait for the Minio Plugin install task to finish

In Workload management slect the Supervisor –> Configure –> Minio –> General to confirm that the Service is up and you can get to the vCenter plugin

Click in Minio –> Tenant –> ADD

Give the Tenant a Name (MetaData)
Enter the vSphere Supervisor Namespace you wish to assign this Tenant to (must match)
Choose the storage class assigned to the Namespace you wish to use for tenant Storage
Click NEXT

Configure the Tenant Server size

Preview your entries
Click CREATE

Make Sure you Download the credentials file. You will not be shown this info again.
Click FINISH

Select the new Tenant click DETAILS

Click HEALTH

Once the Tenant is up and Running click back to DETAILS

Click the Console Endpoint URL

Find the crentials.json file you downloaded earlier
For Login into the Console “access_key” = UserID and “secret_key” = Password

Login

You are ready to administer the tenant.