Cisco Cisco Intercloud Fabric for Business Installation Guide

Cisco Intercloud Fabric 3.2.1: Before You Begin
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Have data networks to be used for the VMs to deploy to the cloud or extend to the cloud.

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Have the following data available to be used during the OVA deployment:

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Domain Name, DNS Server IP Address, NTP Server IP address, or FQDN. You configure these in the System Settings page in
the ICF UI.

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Syslog server IP Address (optional) can be configured through the initial ICF OVA wizard.

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Have the ESXi host configured with the required port groups or port profiles.

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Have the management port group for the ICF VM in the management network.

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Have the trunk port group for the Intercloud Fabric Extender (ICX).

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Make sure that you have configured the following for the trunk port group in Security Settings:

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For VMware vSwitch or VDS, set Promiscuous Mode, MAC Address Changes, and Forged Transmits to Accept.

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For Cisco Nexus 1000V, enter the command no uufb enable on the Cisco Nexus 1000V VSM. To verify that you have disabled
UUFB, enter the command show run | include uufb.

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If the VMware vSwitch or distributed switch being used is connected to multiple physical NICs, you must enable the setting
Net.ReversePathFwdCheckPromise=1 in the ESXi host where the ICX is hosted.

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Have internet access to ICF components in the management network over TCP port 22 and 443. These ports must be open in the
corporate firewall.

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Using Proxy for internet access is not supported.

Cloud Requirements

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Have identified a provider account.

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Refer to the the Cisco Intercloud Fabric Administrator Guide, Release 3.2.1 for more information.

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