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Chapter 1 Ensuring Required Prerequisites Are Ready-to-Go
Checking Required Prerequisites
Setting Up Your Networks
First, choose a network type to determine how this network can be used:
• User networks are used for deploying virtual machines.
• Management networks are used for management access to cloud servers.
• Infrastructure networks are used for management interfaces of Hypervisor hosts and other
infrastructure devices.
Then, prepare your networks to include the following requirements:
• At least one VLAN to use as a destination network for provisioning servers. You can define a
destination network as a community, user, or management network when you create the network in
Prime Service Catalog.
– User networks are assigned to specific Virtual Data Centers owned by an organization.
– Management infrastructure within the cloud system may be used to manage cloud servers, for
example, for remote access and monitoring.
Preparing Storage Management
Prepare your storage management system using the following information:
• Install and configure Storage Area Network (SAN) storage or iSCSI storage required for Distributed
Resource Scheduler (DRS) clusters. For iSCSI or Network File System (NFS) storage solutions,
VMware supports Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP.) It is important that any of these
solutions use DHCP, otherwise static IP information, wherever it is applicable, will have to be
configured manually after the automated process is complete.
• Create the storage volumes that will be used for datastores and datastore clusters.
• Configure Logical Unit Number (LUN) access in your storage management system and assign
World Wide Node Name (WWN) pools (see Setting Up Cisco UCS Manager Pools, page 1-4)
vCenter datastores map to or reference specific LUNs. These mappings will replicate to a new host if the
host blade has been given the same LUN access as all the other hosts in the cluster. This is accomplished
through WWN pools.
LUN configuration can be assigned to any WWN that is within a specific range. For a new host to be
assigned WWNs that are within that range, ensure that it is coming from the pre-defined pool. Whenever
a service profile is created from a service profile template for a blade, specify that the template generate
WWN assignments from a specific pre-defined pool in Cisco UCS Manager. Datastore access should
automatically be in sync with all the other hosts in that cluster when the service profile template is used
to provision the blade.
Preparing Cisco UCS
Setting Up Cisco UCS Manager
While Cisco UCS Manager is an optional component, should your cloud deployment include this
technology, Cisco UCS Manager should be installed and configured before installing Cisco IAC. For
instructions on installing and configuring the application, see the Cisco UCS Manager documentation
on Cisco.com.