Cisco Cisco Intelligent Automation for Cloud 4.2 Installation Guide

Ensuring Required Prerequisites Are Ready-to-Go

Important Note Regarding Cisco Prime Service Catalog Installation

Provisioning of the ESXi Hypervisor OS always uses the first local drive installed in the blade. Cisco IAC supports 
installation of ESXi to local disks only (not over a SAN).

The following VMware software should be installed:

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vSphere PowerCLI on the Process Orchestrator server to support the activities for adding a new ESXi host to a 
cluster. 

For supported software versions, see theCisco Intelligent Automation for Cloud 4.2 Compatibility & Requirements 

Matrix located here: 

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Prepare your VMware environment for virtual provisioning using the following checklist:

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Install VMware vCenter.

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Configure VMware vCenter:

Apply enterprise licensing and enable VMware vSphere Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS), and enable 
Storage DRS.

Determine and create the datacenter, clusters, hosts, datastores, networks, and resource pools to which all 
commissioned hosts and VMs will be deployed.

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Define at least one VM template with VMware tools using a boot disk. 

Be sure the template is configured for the exactly the same size and shape VM you want, not including any 
networks that are not available when the template is cloned.

If several different configurations are desired, they should be controlled by supplying a unique template for each 
configuration.

Provisioned hosts will have evaluation licensing only. You will need to add licensing manually in the vSphere Client. 

For information about installing and configuring your VMware environment, see the 

ESX and vCenter Server 

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Users must have the ability to create resource pools. In addition, resource pools must be enabled on VMware 

VCenter.

Forward slashes in vCenter object names break the parsing process. If any of your vCenter object names contain 

forward slashes, rename the files before you specify a vCenter path.

Important Note Regarding Cisco Prime Service Catalog Installation

During the Prime Service Catalog installation process, you are presented with a checkbox to install storefront content. 
Do not check this box (leave it unchecked).