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Preparing Virtual Machines for Cisco APIC-EM • PreparingaVMwareSystemforCiscoAPIC-EMDeployment, page 1 • VirtualMachineConfigurationRecommendations, page 2 • ConfiguringResourcePoolsUsingvSphereWebClient, page 3 • ConfiguringaVirtualMachineUsingvSphereWebClient, page 6 Preparing a VMware System for Cisco APIC-EM Deployment ToensurethattheCiscoAPIC-EMworkswellwithinavirtualenvironment,configurethevirtualmachine withrecommendedresourcepoolvalues.Aresourcepoolisalogicalabstractionforthevirtualmachinesthat canbeusedtomanageresources.Resourcepoolscanbegroupedintohierarchiesandthenusedtopartition CPUandmemoryresources. YoucanconfigureandpreparethevirtualmachineusingeithertheVMwarevSphereClientorWebClient. WerecommendthatyouusetheVMwarevSphereWebClient,sincetheLatencySensitivitysettingfor resourcepoolsmustbeconfiguredasHigh.TheLatencySensitivitysettingcanonlybeconfiguredusing theVMwarevSphereWebClient Note WhendeployingtheCiscoAPIC-EMinavirtualenvironment,youmustfirstconfiguretheVMware systembeforeinstallingCiscoAPIC-EM.ToinstallCiscoAPIC-EM,youneedtodownloadtheISO imagecontainingthecontrollerfromCisco.comandthenmaptheISOimagetotheVMwaresystemand bootfromit. Related Topics ConfiguringResourcePoolsUsingvSphereWebClient, onpage3 ConfiguringaVirtualMachineUsingvSphereWebClient, onpage6 SystemRequirements—VirtualMachine Cisco Application Policy Infrastructure Controller Enterprise Module Deployment Guide, Release 1.1.x 1 Preparing Virtual Machines for Cisco APIC-EM Virtual Machine Configuration Recommendations Virtual Machine Configuration Recommendations ThefollowingtableliststherecommendedconfigurationsettingsforasuccessfulCiscoAPIC-EMVMware vSphereinstallation,includingresourcepools.WheninstallingCiscoAPIC-EMonasupportedvirtualmachine, werecommendthatthefollowingconfigurationsettingsareused. Note WhenpreparingthevirtualmachinefortheCiscoAPIC-EM,theconfigurationsettingsterminologymay differdependingupontheVMwareapplicationandGUIthatyourareusing. Table 1: Virtual Machine Configuration Recommendations (Including Resource Pools) ResourcePool:CPUResources Reservation—14400MHzisminimumconfiguration settingforthisvalue Limit—Unlimited Shares—Normal vCPU 6(minimum) Note 6vCPUsistheminimumnumberrequired foryourvirtualmachineconfiguration.For betterperformance,werecommendusing 12CPUs. ResourcePool:Memory Memory—32GBor64GBistheminimum configurationsettingforthisvalue,dependingupon yourhardware. Reserveallguestmemory—Enable SCSIcontrollervalue VMwareParavirtual Newnetworkvalue Newnetworkvalue—Enterthenetworkthatthe controllerwillconnectto. Status—Connectatpoweron Adaptertype—VMXNET3 Advanced ChooseHighfortheLatencysensitivity Related Topics ConfiguringResourcePoolsUsingvSphereWebClient, onpage3 ConfiguringaVirtualMachineUsingvSphereWebClient, onpage6 SystemRequirements—VirtualMachine Cisco Application Policy Infrastructure Controller Enterprise Module Deployment Guide, Release 1.1.x 2 Preparing Virtual Machines for Cisco APIC-EM Configuring Resource Pools Using vSphere Web Client Configuring Resource Pools Using vSphere Web Client ToensurethattheCiscoAPIC-EMworkswellwithinavirtualenvironment,youshouldconfigureresource poolswiththerecommendedvalues.Aresourcepoolisalogicalabstractionforthevirtualmachinesthatcan beusedtomanageresources.ResourcepoolscanbegroupedintohierarchiesandthenusedtopartitionCPU andmemoryresources. Note Youshouldfirstcreateanewresourcepoolwiththerecommendedconfigurationvaluesasdescribedin thisprocedure,andthensubsequentlycreateavirtualmachine(wheretheCiscoAPIC-EMwillbeinstalled) onthatresourcepool. Before You Begin YouhavereviewedyourVMwaredocumentationconcerningresourcepoolsandtheirconfiguration. YouarefamiliarwiththeVMwarevSphereWebClientandhaveabasicknowledgeofhowtocreate,manage andtroubleshootvirtualmachinesusingit. YouhaveyourhostandvirtualdatastoresalreadysetupandaccessibleinvSphereWebClientforthis procedure. Step 1 OpentheVMwarevSphereWebClienttoperformtheprocedure. Figure 1: VMware vSphere Web Client Cisco Application Policy Infrastructure Controller Enterprise Module Deployment Guide, Release 1.1.x 3 Preparing Virtual Machines for Cisco APIC-EM Configuring Resource Pools Using vSphere Web Client Step 2 ClickvCenterintheNavigator. Figure 2: vCenter Home Step 3 ClickonHosts. Figure 3: Hosts Cisco Application Policy Infrastructure Controller Enterprise Module Deployment Guide, Release 1.1.x 4 Preparing Virtual Machines for Cisco APIC-EM Configuring Resource Pools Using vSphere Web Client Chooseahostwhereyouwillcreatetheresourcepool. Step 4 Right-clickontheselectedhostandclickAllvCenterActions|NewResourcePool. Figure 4: New Resource Pool Step 5 EnteranameandspecifyvaluesfortheresourcepoolintheNewResourcePooldialogbox. Figure 5: New Resource Pool Cisco Application Policy Infrastructure Controller Enterprise Module Deployment Guide, Release 1.1.x 5 Preparing Virtual Machines for Cisco APIC-EM Configuring a Virtual Machine Using vSphere Web Client Werecommendenteringthefollowingresourcepoolvaluesinthisdialogbox: •CPUResources ◦Shares—ChooseNormalfromthedrop-downmenu ◦Reservation—14400MHzisminimumconfigurationsettingforthisvalue ◦ReservationType—CheckboxforExpandable ◦Limit—SettoMaximumLimit •MemoryResources ◦Shares—ChooseNormalfromthedrop-downmenu ◦Reservation—32GBor64GBistheminimumconfigurationsettingforthisvalue,dependinguponyour hardware. ◦ReservationType—CheckboxforExpandable ◦Limit—SettoMaximumLimit Step 6 ClickOKtosavetheconfiguredresourcepoolvalues. What to Do Next Proceedtocreateanewvirtualmachineonthisresourcepool.Forassistancewiththisprocedure,seethe followingprocedure,ConfiguringaVMwareServerUsingvSphereWebClient. Related Topics PreparingaVMwareSystemforCiscoAPIC-EMDeployment, onpage1 VirtualMachineConfigurationRecommendations, onpage2 SystemRequirements—VirtualMachine Configuring a Virtual Machine Using vSphere Web Client ToensurethattheCiscoAPIC-EMproperlyfunctionsinavirtualenvironment,createthevirtualmachine(s) followingtheproceduredescribedbelowwiththerecommendedsettings. Note Youmustcreatethisvirtualmachineontheresourcepoolthatyouearlierconfigured,asdescribedinthe previousprocedure. Before You Begin YouhavereviewedtheminimumsystemrequirementsforasuccessfulCiscoAPIC-EMVMwarevSphere installation,aspreviouslydescribedinthisguide. Cisco Application Policy Infrastructure Controller Enterprise Module Deployment Guide, Release 1.1.x 6 Preparing Virtual Machines for Cisco APIC-EM Configuring a Virtual Machine Using vSphere Web Client YouarefamiliarwiththeVMwarevSphereWebClientandhaveabasicknowledgeofhowtocreate,manage andtroubleshootvirtualmachinesusingtheWebClient. YouhaveyourhostandvirtualdatastoresalreadysetupandaccessibleinvSphereWebClientforthis procedure. Youhavealreadycreatedaresourcepoolonthehost,followingthestepsdescribedinthepreviousprocedure, ConfiguringResourcePoolsUsingvSphereWebClient. Step 1 OpentheVMwarevSphereWebClienttoperformtheprocedure. Figure 6: VMware vSphere Web Client Cisco Application Policy Infrastructure Controller Enterprise Module Deployment Guide, Release 1.1.x 7 Preparing Virtual Machines for Cisco APIC-EM Configuring a Virtual Machine Using vSphere Web Client Step 2 ClickvCenterintheNavigator. Figure 7: vCenter Step 3 ClickResourcePoolsintheInventoryListsinvCenter. Step 4 Choosetheresourcepoolwhereyouwillinstallthevirtualmachinefromthelist. Figure 8: Resource Pools Cisco Application Policy Infrastructure Controller Enterprise Module Deployment Guide, Release 1.1.x 8 Preparing Virtual Machines for Cisco APIC-EM Configuring a Virtual Machine Using vSphere Web Client Step 5 RightclickontheresourcepoolandselectNewVirtualMachinefromthemenu. Figure 9: New Virtual Machine Note Westronglyrecommendthatonlyasinglevirtualmachinebecreatedundertheresource pool. Cisco Application Policy Infrastructure Controller Enterprise Module Deployment Guide, Release 1.1.x 9 Preparing Virtual Machines for Cisco APIC-EM Configuring a Virtual Machine Using vSphere Web Client Step 6 ClickCreateanewvirtualmachineintheNewVirtualMachinedialogboxunder1aSelectcreationtype. Figure 10: Select Creation Type ClickNexttoproceedtothenextstep. Step 7 IntheNewVirtualMachinedialogboxunder2EditSettings,click2aSelectanameandfolder. Enteranameforthevirtualmachineandalocationforthevirtualmachine. Cisco Application Policy Infrastructure Controller Enterprise Module Deployment Guide, Release 1.1.x 10
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