HP Insight Control Server Provisioning 7.2 Update 2 Installation Guide

2 Requirements and networking considerations
Insight Control server provisioning is delivered pre-installed on a virtual machine (VM) that is
optimized to run the application.
Before you install Insight Control server provisioning you need to check the host system requirements,
check the requirements for using the USB media or ZIP file software download and consider which
network configuration you will use.
NOTE: Please check the website http://www.hp.com/go/insightcontrol/docs to see if there is
an updated version of this manual. Check the Edition number and if a newer version exists, please
use that manual instead of this one.
Appliance VM and host requirements
You will need the following environment on your host computer to install and run the Insight Control
server provisioning virtual appliance:
• Either VMware ESXi or vSphere Hypervisor or Microsoft Hyper-V hypervisor
Supported versions for VMware hypervisors: VMware ESXi version 5.0, 5.0 U1, 5.0 U2
and VMware vSphere version 5.1 or 5.1 U1
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◦ Supported versions for Microsoft HyperV hypervisors: Microsoft Windows 2012 with
Hyper-V role enabled and Microsoft Hyper-V 2012
IMPORTANT: Make sure your host computer meets the VMware requirements for running
64 bit guest VMs on the host.
◦ For VMware ESXi or vSphere Hypervisor — VMware vSphere Client with VMware tools
installed is required
• The minimum resource requirements for the appliance VM are four 2GHz CPUs and 16GB
of memory. These are the settings your appliance template ships with. Never modify these to
be any lower than that. If you will have large numbers of servers in your appliance, or you
expect to be performing more than 8 simultaneous deployments, you should consider increasing
these resources. Optimal resources for working at scale are 8 CPUs and 30GB of memory.
Be sure your VM host has sufficient resources available for the VM and any hypervisor
overhead.
• 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.
IMPORTANT: HP strongly recommends using thick provisioning. If you use thin provisioning
and your VM host disk runs out of space, the appliance will most likely encounter errors and
terminate unexpectedly and may not recover. If this happens you will need to install a new
appliance and restore from backup.
• For information on security considerations and a list of ports that need to be open for Insight
Control server provisioning see the HP Insight Control Server Provisioning Administrator Guide
chapter on Security Considerations.
• Networking requirements: The IC server provisioning appliance template comes configured
with two network interfaces (NICs). You can decide if you want to configure the appliance to
have the Appliance IP and the Deployment IP on the same or different networks which
determines if you will need one or two network adapters on the host. See “Appliance
networking considerations” (page 8) for more information on single and multi-NIC modes.
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