Installation Guide

3 HP CloudSystem installation prerequisites
This chapter outlines the recommended and minimum hardware and software requirements, the
networking pre-configuration, and the solution integration tools that must be in place before installing
CloudSystem.
Hardware requirements (page 12)
Software requirements (page 15)
Networking requirements (page 15)
Browser requirements (page 19)
Tools requirements (page 20)
Understand the installation process
A high-level overview of the CloudSystem installation path is provided in the table below. The
Additional resources column contains links to information in this guide, as well as information from
other documentation sources.
Table 1 Installation process
Additional resourcesInstallation step
SeeVerify that the target environment satisfies the hardware,
software, and networking prerequisites described in this guide.
Hardware requirements (page 12)
Software requirements (page 15)
Networking requirements (page 15)
SeeConfigure the HP 3PAR storage system to support storage
requirements for compute nodes and virtual machine instances.
Openstack Cinder documentation
This guide does not cover the specific steps required to
accomplish this.
HP 3PAR documentation
• The 3PAR storage system server certificate must contain a
Fully Qualified Domain Name (FQDN) in the CN attribute
Subject field.
• For block storage volumes, use the OpenStack interfaces
that are dependent on block storage support.
• For ephemeral storage, define the storage in the flavor
definitions.
SeeSet up the management hypervisor solution (ESX or KVM) per
CloudSystem requirements. If using ESX, configure vCenter
Server.
Installing CloudSystem on an ESX cluster
(page 26)
Installing CloudSystem on a KVM hypervisor
(page 33)
VMware vSphere Documentation at VMware
SeeUse csstart to deploy the Foundation base appliance.
Configuring the ESX management
environment (page 28)
Configuring the KVM management
environment (page 40)
See Setting up the CloudSystem Console for
the first time (page 44)
Enter and save Cloud Networking settings in the CloudSystem
Console.
See Preparing HP Operations Orchestration
for CloudSystem Foundation (page 47)
Optional: Install OO Studio, if you want to customize workflows.
See Installing CloudSystem Enterprise
(page 49)
Optional: Install CloudSystem Enterprise.
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