Cisco Cisco Intelligent Automation for Cloud 4.2 Installation Guide
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Configuring Cisco IAC With the Wizard
Discovering Cloud Infrastructure (Optional)
a.
Choose VMware vCenter as the Platform Element Type.
b.
Enter a Connection Name (Friendly Name).
c.
Enter a Host Name, a Port number and a Description.
d.
Set the following to either True or False, as needed:
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Secure Connection
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Ignore Certificate Error
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Managed by UCS Director
e.
Enter username and Password, the reenter the password to confirm.
Note:
You may need to enter the domain name before the username followed by a backslash.
3.
Click Submit Order.
4.
Click on the number in the Requisition Number field to display the details.
5.
Click Close when the status says Completed.
Note:
Repeat the steps above to add a Prime Network Services Controller (if using ANS), Prime Performance Manager
(if you are tracking VM performance), AMQP Server, Chef, or Puppet.
Discovering Cloud Infrastructure (Optional)
Discovering Network Devices (Optional)
The purpose of STEP 4 is to discover your physical and virtual network devices.
Note:
This process can take anywhere from 10 minutes up to an hour.
Note:
Save for your first Prime NSC, you do not need to pre-provision the virtual devices. Cisco IAC will provision all
these devices for you when the first Tenant Organization is onboarded that has elected for Advanced Network Services.
If you are not planning on using Advanced Network Services (VSA 1.0), you may skip Step (Tab) 4 and move on to Step
(Tab) 5 directly.
If you are not planning on using Advanced Network Services (VSA 1.0), you may skip Step (Tab) 4 and move on to Step
(Tab) 5 directly.
Note:
You do need to have Nexus1000v Virtual Access Switch installed and integrated with VMware as well as a range
of VLANs identified in the data up-link. The range of VLANs you intend to specify in your Network PoD should be passed
in the data-uplink trunk from N1kv to the ESXi hosts (its VEMs). Cisco IAC does not configure this for you.
in the data-uplink trunk from N1kv to the ESXi hosts (its VEMs). Cisco IAC does not configure this for you.
1.
To discover network devices, from the Wizard choose Discover Network Devices.
2.
You are returned to the wizard Step 4 screen.
3.
Click Next to proceed to Step 5 in the Wizard.
Registering Nexus 1000v Devices (Optional)
Devices which you have discovered and then register are those devices which you want dynamically created VLANs (by
Cisco IAC) to be propagated to. So register a device if you want Cisco IAC to go configure the VLAN on it.
Cisco IAC) to be propagated to. So register a device if you want Cisco IAC to go configure the VLAN on it.
1.
To register Nexus 1000v devices, from the Wizard choose Register Nexus 1000v.
2.
Complete the online process to register Nexus 1000v devices. When you are done, click Next.