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NSP system installation requires a thorough understanding of NSP system administration and platform requirements, and is supported only under the conditions described in this guide, the NSP Planning Guide, and the NSP Release Notice.

Such an operation must be planned, documented, and tested in advance on a trial system that is representative of the target live network. Contact NSP professional services to assess the requirements of your NSP deployment, and for information about the upgrade service, which you are strongly recommended to engage for any type of deployment.

New standalone or DR NSP cluster deployment is supported for the following scenarios:

• completely new, or ‘greenfield’ NSP deployment; see Greenfield NSP system deployment

• migration from an independent NFM-P deployment to integration with a new NSP system; see Migration from independent NFM-P

Workflow for greenfield NSP system deployment and Workflow for NSP migration from independent NFM-P each make reference to procedure To install an NSP cluster, which describes the installation and deployment of a single NSP cluster. For DR NSP deployment, a workflow directs you to perform the procedure once in each data center.

Note: In a DR deployment, the first data center in which you perform To install an NSP cluster is designated the primary data center, and hosts the active nspOs instance after the installation.

NSP licensing

Your NSP system requires a license. It is recommended that you contact Nokia early in the planning process to obtain the required license for your deployment.