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EMC CIS Series 1 Pod Installation and Configuration Guide
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Contents
1 Introduction ................................................................................................................ 3
1.1 Introducing the EMC CIS Series 1 Pod .................................................................. 3
2 Planning....................................................................................................................... 4
2.1 Pod Creation Workflow ........................................................................................ 4
2.2 Pod Resource Requirements ................................................................................ 5
2.3 ESXi Host Server Requirements ............................................................................ 5
2.4 NETLAB+ Requirements ....................................................................................... 6
2.5 Networking Requirements ................................................................................... 6
3 Obtaining Software and Licenses ................................................................................ 7
3.1 Downloading OVF Files ......................................................................................... 7
3.2 Obtaining vITA Licenses........................................................................................ 7
4 Master Pod Configuration ........................................................................................... 8
4.1 Deploying Virtual Machine OVF/OVA Files .......................................................... 8
4.2 Modify and Activate Virtual Machines ............................................................... 10
4.2.1 Modify Virtual Machines ............................................................................. 10
4.2.2 Activate Licenses ......................................................................................... 12
4.3 Create Snapshots for the Master Virtual Machines ........................................... 14
4.4 NETLAB+ Virtual Machine Infrastructure Setup ................................................. 14
4.5 NETLAB+ Virtual Machine Inventory Setup........................................................ 15
4.6 Create the Master EMC CIS Series 01 Pod ......................................................... 16
4.7 Update Master Pod ............................................................................................ 17
5 Pod Cloning ............................................................................................................... 19
5.1 Linked Clones and Full Clones ............................................................................ 19
5.2 Creating User Pods on the First Host ................................................................. 19
5.3 Copying Your Master Pod to the Second Host ................................................... 21
5.4 Creating User Pods on the Second Host ............................................................ 22
6 Assigning Pods to Students, Teams , or Classes........................................................ 23