Cisco Cisco Prime Infrastructure 3.0 Installation Guide

If you are running multiple previous releases of Prime Infrastructure (for example, you are running version 2.2 and 2.2.1 or 
2.2.2), you must select one version from which to restore data. You cannot restore data from more than one Prime Infrastructure 
version. To combine data from multiple Prime Infrastructure versions:

Perform the restore operation for one Prime Infrastructure system running a previous Prime Infrastructure version. See 

.

Export your device inventory and maps from other Prime Infrastructure systems and import the information into the Prime 
Infrastructure 3.0 system.

You should check the validity of your Prime Infrastructure backup data by setting up an additional Prime Infrastructure server 
(either a spare Prime Infrastructure appliance or a new Prime Infrastructure virtual machine) and perform the restore operation 
as explained in 

Cisco Prime Infrastructure 3.0 Administrator Guide

. If you do not 

have an additional Prime Infrastructure system to validate the backup, take at least two backups to reduce the risk of losing data.

If the restore operation does not work, or there are problems with the backed up image, try taking another backup from a 
production system, or try restoring from an earlier Prime Infrastructure backup.

If you cannot create a verified backup before installing this version of Prime Infrastructure, open a support case with Cisco TAC.

Follow the instructions in this section to install Prime Infrastructure. 

Before installing Prime Infrastructure on a virtual machine, you must:

Ensure that VMware ESXi is installed and configured on the machine that you plan to use as the Prime Infrastructure server. 
See the 

 for information on setting up and configuring a VMware host. If you are using VMware 

ESX 5.5, you must use vSphere Client or ESX5.5U2 Client to manage the virtual machine. Do not edit the virtual machine 
settings and do not extend or manually add additional disks to the configuration.

Check that the installed VMware ESXi host is reachable. See the VMware documentation on how to install the VMware 
vSphere Client. After the virtual host is available on the network, you can browse to its IP address to display a web-based 
interface from which you can install the VMware vSphere Client. 

Ensure that the Prime Infrastructure OVA is saved to the same machine where your VMware vSphere Client is installed. 
Depending on your arrangement with Cisco, you may download the OVA file from Cisco.com or use your Cisco-supplied 
installation media.

If you download the OVA: Extract the PI-VA-3.0.0.0.78.ova file contained in the PI-VA-3.0.0.0.78.ova.zip archive file 
downloaded from Cisco.com. Then ensure that the extracted file matches the following checksums: 

MD5 Checksum: eb20a7542d48d97740a4ad412c82f0cf

SHA512 Checksum: 
54850a0a35009fad54b707624605cd3715ffe0ea66fc446db4053c399d563c4374fcf8a0122ff4d447e072f27764fc0523
f6b140a995d33daacf706a9c3f2134