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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 vRealize Automation
Installation,” on page 19.
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 vRealize Automation
Installation,” on page 19.
N If you use the management console to start or congure any part of your
installation, you cannot start or continue use of the Installation Wizard.
Installing and Conguring 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 congure 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 congure 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 Conguring 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 the vRealize Automation Reference Architecture
guide.
Minimal Deployment Overview
To complete a minimal deployment, a system administrator installs the vRealize Automation appliance and
Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) components.
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vRealize Automation appliance includes the Web console interface and support for single sign-on
capabilities. It is installed as a virtual appliance.
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Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) is installed on a Windows Server machine.
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The IaaS uses an SQL database that can be installed on the same machine as IaaS or on its own server.
The following gure shows the relationship and purpose of components of a minimal installation.
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