Prerequisites

The following sections detail the prerequisites for installing Cisco Elastic Services Controller:

Virtual Resource Requirements

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

ESC Deployment

Number of ESC VMs

Virtual CPU per ESC VM

Virtual Memory (GB) per ESC VM

Virtual Hard Disk (GB)per ESC VM

Number of total VMs Supported

VIM

ESC Standalone

1

4

8

40

1000

All supported VIMs

ESC Active/Standby HA

2

4

8

40

2500

All supported VIMs

ESC Active/Active HA

3

8

16

40*

5000

OpenStack Only

ESC GEO HA

6

8

16

40*

5000

OpenStack Only

Note

*The Active/Active HA and Geo HA deployment can accommodate up to 60 GB of hard disk while provisioning the NFVI resources.

Software Requirements

The following table lists the software requirements on OpenStack:

Requirements

Description

Supported Browsers

Google Chrome 44.x or later

OpenStack Version

Any of the following:

  • Train

  • Queens (Keystone V3)

  • Ocata (Keystone V2 and V3)

Preparing for the Installation

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

Table 1. ESC Release Package

Requirements

Your Information/ Notes

ESC.qcow2

An image file for booting up the ESC instance

bootvm.py

The installation script is compatible with python 2.7.6 and Python 3.4

Pre-requisites for Installing ESC 6.0 on OpenStack:

While glancing the ESC 6.0 image on OpenStack, make sure that the following property is configured for that image, only then the ESC 6.0 image will boot.

--property hw_firmware_type=uefi

If Cisco Virtual Infrastructure Manager (CVIM) is being used as Virtual Infrastructure platform, then UEFI is NOT SUPPORTED by CVIM 3.x versions. For more details on UEFI support on CVIM platform, please refer to the respective product user guide.

While glancing the ESC 6.0 image on CVIM 4.x platform, ensure that the following properties are configured for that image, only then the ESC 6.0 image will boot.

--property hw_firmware_type=uefi--property hw_machine_type=q35


Note

For the compute host to support UEFI, user may require to install "ovmf" package on the host. Command to install ovmf package differs based on the Host Operating System.