Cisco Elastic Services Controller 4.5 Install and Upgrade Guide

Virtual Resource Requirements

The following table lists the virtual resource requirements for Cisco Elastic Services Controller:


Requirements (for 1000 VNFs/VM management)	Description
Virtual CPUs	4 VCPUs
Memory	8 GB RAM
Disk Space	30 GB

The following table lists the software requirements on OpenStack:


Requirements	Description
Supported Browsers	Any of the following: Mozilla Firefox 40.x or later Google Chrome 44.x or later
OpenStack Version	Any of the following: Newton Ocata Queens Keystone V2 and V3

Before you perform the installation, ensure that you are prepared by reviewing this checklist:


Requirements	Your Information/ Notes
For Pre-installation Configuration
QCOW image location
QCOW image
VM per Instance
IP address
Subnet mask
Hostname
Domain name
Gateway IP address
Admin password
ESC Release Package
ESC.qcow2	An image file for booting up the ESC instance
bootvm.py	The installation script compatible with python 2.7.6 and Python 3.4