join <ip-address[:port]> cluster-id <cluster-id> thumbprint <thumbprint> [token <api-token>] [username <username> [password <password>]] [force]

Join this node to a management cluster. You must provide the API username and password of a node that is already in the cluster. On that node, you can run the get cluster config command to get the cluster ID, and run the get certificate api thumbprint command to get the thumbprint. If you do not provide a password on the command line, you will be prompted to enter one.

Parameters:

Option	Description
<ip-address[:port]>	IPv4 or IPv6 address of an NSX Manager and optional port
<cluster-id>	Cluster ID of existing cluster to join Allowed pattern: ^[0-9a-fA-F]{8}-([0-9a-fA-F]{4}-){3}[0-9a-fA-F]{12}$
<username>	Manager API username
<password>	Manager API password
<thumbprint>	Manager API thumbprint

Example:

nsx-manager-1> join 10.162.59.72:443 cluster-id 076dcdbd-0db9-41a7-931d-3b102a128d6e username admin password VMwarensbu_1 thumbprint 4e282b0811b40d93ed85cb24cf261c3296d6d3dbdb6fb2d596d848ba4a292c5a force Join operation successful. Services are being restarted. Cluster may take some time to stabilize. nsx-manager-1>

Mode:

Basic

Availability:

• Cloud Service Manager
• Global Manager
• Manager