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Chapter 7 Configuring Cisco IAC With the Wizard
Managing PODs
Note This process can take anywhere from 10 minutes up to an hour.
Timesaver Save for your first Prime NSC, you do not need to pre-provision the virtual devices. Cisco IAC will
provision all these devices for you when the first Tenant Organization is onboarded that has elected for
Advanced Network Services. If you are not planning on using Advanced Network Services (VSA 1.0),
you may skip Step (Tab) 4 and move on to Step (Tab) 5 directly.
Note You do need to have Nexus1000v Virtual Access Switch installed and integrated with VMware as well
as a range of VLANs identified in the data up-link. The range of VLANs you intend to specify in your
Network PoD should be passed in the data-uplink trunk from N1kv to the ESXi hosts (its VEMs). Cisco
IAC does not configure this for you.
Step 1 To discover network devices, from the Wizard choose Discover Network Devices.
Step 2 You are returned to the wizard Step 4 screen.
Step 3 Click Next to proceed to Step 5 in the Wizard.
Registering Nexus 1000v Devices (Optional)
Devices which you have discovered and then register are those devices which you want dynamically
created VLANs (by Cisco IAC) to be propagated to. So register a device if you want Cisco IAC to go
configure the VLAN on it.
Step 1 To register Nexus 1000v devices, from the Wizard choose Register Nexus 1000v.
Step 2 Complete the online process to register Nexus 1000v devices. When you are done, click Next.
Note Registration gives the device a “friendly name,” defines the Device Role, and identifies the
linkage to the PNSC it is currently integrated with.
Managing PODs
On the STEP 5 panel of the Wizard, you create PODs and choose the instances that manage its resources.
A POD (Point-of-Delivery) contains the platform elements and a data center.