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Choose a minimal installation to deploy a proof of concept (PoC) or development environment with a
basic topology. Choose an enterprise installation to deploy a production environment with the topology
best suited to your organizational needs.
Table 1‑1. Choosing Your Installation Method
Installation Method Details
Installation Wizard The Installation Wizard provides the quickest installation path for most deployments. You
can choose a minimal or enterprise deployment to support distributed components with or
without load balancers. Complete and verify all prerequisites before you start the wizard.
For more information, see Chapter 2 Preparing for Installation.
Manual installation Installation through the management console is also supported for minimal, distributed, and
high-availability installations. Complete and verify all prerequisites before you begin the
installation.
For more information, see Chapter 2 Preparing for Installation.
Note If you use the management console to start or configure any part of your installation,
you cannot start or continue use of the Installation Wizard.
Installing and Configuring vRealize
Automation for the Rainpole Scenario
As a vSphere administrator, you want to install a minimal vRealize Automation deployment
into your existing vSphere environment. You use the installation wizard to install
vRealize Automation and create initial content catalog items that help you quickly configure
an environment to use a proof of concept.
A proof of concept deployment is not suitable for production. When you complete the proof
of concept deployment, you configure it as a development environment where you and your
IT team create and test blueprints. You can export blueprints and other design elements out
of your development environment and into your production environment.
To begin this scenario, see Installing and Configuring vRealize Automation for the Rainpole
Scenario.
Table 1‑2. Choosing Your Deployment Type
Deployment Purpose Choose this deployment type
Deploy a proof of concept (PoC) or development environment
with a basic topology.
Install a minimal deployment.
You deploy a single instance of vRealize Automation appliance
and install all IaaS components on a single Windows server
machine. You can install the databases on the same Windows
machine or on a dedicated SQL Server.
Deploy a production environment with the topology best suited
to your organizational needs.
Install an enterprise deployment.
You distribute components across multiple servers.
Optionally, you can deploy load balancers to distribute work
across servers and provide fail over capability and redundancy
in a high-availability environment.
For information about scalability and high availability, see VMware vRealize Automation Reference
Architecture, available as a technical paper at https://www.vmware.com/support/pubs/vcac-pubs.html.
Installing vRealize Automation
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