Step 1
| In the
VMware
vSphere Client login dialog box, enter your login credentials.
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Step 2
| Click
Login.
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Step 3
| In the
Navigation pane, choose
Data
Center for
Cisco IMC Supervisor
deployment.
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Step 4
| Choose
.
The
Deploy
OVF Template window appears.
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Step 5
| In the
Source pane, do one of the following to choose your
OVF source location:
- Browse to the location,
choose the file, and click
Open.
- Deploy from a URL on your
local area network. Replace
FQDN (Fully Qualified Domain Name) with the IP address
or domain name, and click
Next.
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Step 6
| In the
OVF
Template Details pane, verify the details and click
Next.
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Step 7
| In the
End User
License Agreement pane, read the license agreement, and
click
Accept. Click Next.
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Step 8
| In the
Name and
Location pane, do the following:
- Optional: In the
Name field, edit the VM name.
- Choose the
Data
Center where
Cisco IMC Supervisor
is being deployed, and click
Next.
Note
| If Data
Center was chosen in a previous step, option b is not available.
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Step 9
| In the
Host/Cluster pane, choose the required host, cluster,
or resource pool, and click
Next.
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Step 10
| In the
Datastore pane, choose the location to store
Cisco IMC Supervisor
VM files, and click
Next.
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Step 11
| In the
Disk
Format pane, choose one of the following radio buttons and click
Next:
- Thin Provisioned
format—To allocate storage on demand as data is written to disk.
- Thick Provisioned (Lazy
Zeroed) format —To allocate storage immediately in thick format.
- Thick Provisioned (Eager
Zeroed) format —To allocate storage in thick format. It might take
longer to create disks using this option.
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Step 12
| In the
Network
Mapping pane, choose your network and click
Next.
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Step 13
| In the
Properties pane, enter the following information and
click
Next:
The management
IP address and management IP subnet mask are set to 0.0.0.0 to use DHCP by
default.
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Step 14
| In the
IP
Address Allocation pane, click
Next.
The DHCP check
box is checked by default.
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Step 15
| In the
Ready to
Complete pane, verify the options selected, and click
Finish.
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Step 16
| Make sure you
have sufficient vCPU and memory to power on the VM.
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Step 17
| Power on the VM.
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Step 18
| When the
appliance starts up, do the following when you are prompted to configure a
static IP:
- If you want to use DHCP,
enter
n to ensure that IP addresses are assigned
automatically.
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Note
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Even
though you are prompted to select IPV4 or IPV6, IPV6 is not yet supported by
Cisco IMC Supervisor.
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If you want to use static IP address, enter
y and then you will be prompted to select IPV4 or
IPV6. Enter
V4 to configure IPV4 and then enter the following
information:
-
IP
address
-
Gateway
-
Netmask
-
DNS
server
Note
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Currently,
only IPv4 is supported for configuring static IP addresses.
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Step 19
| When you are
prompted to continue with the configuration, enter
y.
Wait for the
appliance to boot up before you continue.
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Step 20
| After the
appliance has booted up, transfer the
Cisco IMC Supervisor
IP address (from the IP address that is shown) into a supported web browser to
access the
Login page.
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Step 21
| On the
Login page, enter
admin as the username and
admin for the login password.
Note
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Change your admin password after this initial login.
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