Cisco Cisco Intelligent Automation for Cloud 4.3.2 Installation Guide
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Using the Cisco IAC 4.3.2 Management Appliance
Deploying the Management Appliance
Creating a Volume for the Appliance
From the OpenStack dashboard, choose the project under which you want to set up the Cisco IAC Appliance.
1.
Click Volumes from the sidebar menu.
2.
Click + Create Volume.
3.
In the dialog box that opens, enter or select the following values.
a.
Volume Name. Specify a name for the volume.
b.
Description. Enter a brief description for the Cisco IAC volume if you want.
c.
Volume Source. Select Image.
d.
Use image as a source. Select the Cisco IAC 4.3.2 image from the list.
e.
Type. Leave this field as “No volume type.”
f.
Size (GB). Enter 40 as the minimum size (you can enter a larger size).
g.
Select the Availability Zone from the list. By default, this value is set to “Any availability zone.”
4.
Click Create Volume.
A process will run. After some time, the volume you just created now displays in the dashboard on the Volumes tab.
Launching the Instance
1.
On the OpenStack dashboard, choose a project, and click Images from the sidebar menu. The dashboard shows
the images that have been uploaded to OpenStack Image Service and are available for this project.
the images that have been uploaded to OpenStack Image Service and are available for this project.
2.
Click Launch Instance.
3.
In the Launch Instance dialog box, specify the following values:
Details tab
a.
Availability Zone. If you selected an availability zone for the Volume in the previous process, you should select
the same zone here; for example, nova.
the same zone here; for example, nova.
b.
Instance Name. Assign a name to the virtual machine.
c.
Flavor. Needs to be a minimum of m1.medium, and assumes the following minimum configuration:
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2 VCPUs
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40 GB disk
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4 GB RAM
Note.
The flavor is selected based on the size of the image selected for launching an instance. For example, while
creating an image, if you have entered the value in the Minimum RAM (MB) field as 40 GB, then on selecting the
image, the default flavor is m1.medium. (Assuming the flavors are still set to the OpenStack defaults.)
image, the default flavor is m1.medium. (Assuming the flavors are still set to the OpenStack defaults.)
d.
Instance Count. To launch multiple instances, enter a value greater than 1 (the default is 1).
e.
Instance Boot Source. Select Boot from volume.
f.
Volume. Select the volume you created earlier from this list.