•
Any proxy values necessary for the virtual appliance to access the Internet (if you want the virtual
appliance to have access to the Internet).
•
If this is a local cluster installation, you will need to determine the IP address of the Cisco Prime Network
Registrar regional cluster to which this local cluster will connect in order to receive its license information.
If this is a regional cluster installation, you can ignore this requirement.
Deploying the Regional Cluster OVA or Local Cluster OVA on VMware
The Cisco Prime Network Registrar virtual appliance is supported for production use on VMware ESXi 5.5
or later and can be accessed or managed using the VMware vSphere client. The Cisco Prime Network Registrar
virtual appliance is made available in an Open Virtual Appliance (OVA) package.
The VMware vSphere client can be connected directly to your ESXi installation, or it can be connected to a
vCenter server which in turn is connected to your vSphere installation. Connecting through vCenter provides
a number of capabilities that connecting directly to ESXi does not. If a vCenter server is available and associated
with the ESXi installation, it should be used.
To install the Cisco Prime Network Registrar virtual appliance, you must first download the correct installation
file. There are two files available, a regional virtual appliance and a local cluster virtual appliance. Each of
these virtual appliances are provided as a .ova file.
The names are:
•
cpnr_9_1_local.ova
for the local virtual appliance
•
cpnr_9_1_regional.ova
for the regional virtual appliance
Download the virtual appliance of your choice. Every Cisco Prime Network Registrar local cluster installation
must connect to a Cisco Prime Network Registrar regional cluster in order to receive the necessary license
information required to operate. Thus, before you install a Cisco Prime Network Registrar local virtual
appliance you must identify the IP address of the regional cluster to which it will connect to receive the license
information.
Using vSphere, connect directly to the ESXi installation or the vCenter server, and select the ESXi installation
where the OVA is to be deployed.
If you have a vCenter server available, you can connect the ESXi hypervisor to your existing vCenter server
and manage it through that vCenter server. Managing all your VMware hypervisors through a common vCenter
server provides many benefits.
The screens that you see while managing the ESXi hypervisor with a vSphere client through a vCenter server
are different from the screens that you see while connecting the vSphere client directly to the ESXi hypervisor.
You can see additional screens if connected through vCenter server. These screens do not actually provide
any benefit for the operations in which you will engage to deploy the Cisco Prime Network Registrar virtual
appliance. The benefits to using the vCenter server approach come after the initial deployment of the virtual
appliance.
To deploy a Regional Cluster OVA or Local Cluster OVA:
Step 1
From vSphere menu, choose
File > Deploy OVF Template
.
The Deploy OVF Template Source window appears.
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