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Chapter 1 Ensuring Required Prerequisites Are Ready-to-Go
Checking Required Prerequisites
Tip For supported software versions, see theCisco Intelligent Automation for Cloud 4.1.1 Compatibility &
Requirements Matrix located here:
http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/support/cloud-systems-management/intelligent-automation-cloud/tsd-pr
oducts-support-series-home.html.
Prepare your VMware environment for virtual provisioning using the following checklist:
• Install VMware vCenter.
• Configure VMware vCenter:
– Apply enterprise licensing and enable VMware vSphere Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS).
– Determine and create the datacenter, clusters, hosts, datastores, networks, and resource pools to
which all commissioned hosts and VMs will be deployed.
• Define at least one VM template with VMware tools using a boot disk.
– Be sure the template is configured for the exactly the same size and shape VM you want, not
including any networks that are not available when the template is cloned.
– If several different configurations are desired, they should be controlled by supplying a unique
template for each configuration.
Provisioned hosts will have evaluation licensing only. You will need to add licensing manually in the
vSphere Client.
Tip For information about installing and configuring your VMware environment, see the ESX and vCenter
Server Installation Guide 4.0.
Note Users must have the ability to create resource pools. In addition, resource pools must be enabled on
VMware VCenter.
Tip Forward slashes in vCenter object names break the parsing process. If any of your vCenter object names
contain forward slashes, rename the files before you specify a vCenter path.