HP Insight Control Server Provisioning 7.2 Installation Guide

• At least 4 CPUs to accommodate the VM and at least 16 GB memory allocated for the VM
NOTE: These are minimum CPU and memory requirements. If you will be deploying large
numbers of servers at a time (more than 8 at a time), or will be managing large numbers of
servers (over 1000) then the recommended optimal configuration is 8 CPUs and 30 GB of
memory.
• 200 GB of disk space allocated for the VM plus another 16 GB of disk space to serve as
storage for the 16 GB of memory required.
• One network adapter
NOTE: The IC server provisioning appliance template comes configured with a single network
interface. After you configure your appliance, the appliance network interface must be able
to access the network the target servers are on.
• Appliance networking requirements: The appliance requires two IP addresses. Both of these
IP addresses will be assigned to the one appliance NIC. They must be on the same subnet
and be static IP addresses. The two IP addresses need to be able to communicate with your
target servers and their iLO management processors. If your iLOs are on a different network
from your deployment network, you will need a router that can route traffic from your appliance
to the iLO.
If you host multiple appliances or other VMs on the same host, the requirements must be scaled
appropriately.
2.2.2 Requirements for using the USB media or ZIP file download
Due to the large size, approximately 16 GB of files contained within the USB media and ZIP
download file, some care is needed to use the media or download file and unzip the contents.
There are different considerations for Windows and Linux systems.
• USB Media
The USB media is formatted using the NTFS file system. When the media is inserted into a
USB drive on a Windows system, most recent Windows systems should be able to recognize
the USB NTFS file system and access the contents within.
There is a much wider variation in support for NTFS file system on Linux systems. When the
media is inserted into a USB drive on a Linux system, some Linux systems will be able to mount
the media with a command such as:
# mount —t ntfs -o ro /dev/sdb1 /mnt
The device name may vary by Linux system. If you get an error message that the NTFS system
is not recognized, you will need to download and install NTFS support on your Linux system.
One recommended free tool to enable that is ntfs-3g from http://www.tuxera.com. The
mount command using ntfs-3g is, for example:
# mount.ntfs-3g -o ro /dev/sdb1 /mnt
• ZIP file download
Built-in Windows ZIP capability available through Windows Explorer is not able to open the
large Insight Control server provisioning ZIP files correctly. Add-on ZIP capability, such as
from WinZip or the free tool 7zip (available from http://www.7-zip.org) is required.
For Linux systems a version of unzip supporting ZIP version 3.0 must be used.
6 Installing your Insight Control server provisioning appliance for the first time