Cisco Cisco Intelligent Automation for Cloud 4.3.1 User Guide

For supported VMware software versions, see the 

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

Install and configure VMware vCenter:

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

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

Define at least one VM template with VMware tools.

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 

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To prepare your directory and email environment, ensure that the following conditions are met:

LDAP server, Microsoft Active Directory, is installed and configured.

If you will implement directory integration, Active Directory is required. Use of other LDAP 
server software, in addition to Active Directory, is optional. For information on other 
supported LDAP software, see the 

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SMTP server installed and configured with an account to send and receive emails. 

For information on configuring the STMP server, see the 

 or the 

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Prepare a list of organizations, organization users, and Organization Technical Administrators to 
configure in Cloud Portal. For more information about the predefined user roles, their respective 
capabilities, and how this information can help you plan for your administrator’s responsibilities, see the 
“User Roles and Capabilities” section in the

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