Before you consider deploying a new NSP system, upgrading or adding to a system, or modifying a system in any way, you are strongly encouraged to become familiar with the following guides:

• NSP System Architecture Guide, for the product description, NSP deployment options, and NSP access information

• NSP Planning Guide, for pre-deployment requirements, system specifications, restrictions, and special considerations

• NSP Release Notice, for release-specific information that may apply to your deployment, and technical updates not captured in other NSP guides

After you identify your deployment requirements in consultation with a Nokia representative, the response to an NSP Platform Sizing Request that you submit to Nokia provides the required parameters for your deployment operation.

Note: The response to your NSP Platform Sizing Request includes the nsp-config-overrides.yml file. See Using the nsp-config-overrides.yml file for detailed instructions.

After the planning phase, you must become familiar with the relevant content in this and the subsequent Part I: Getting started chapters, which describe NSP platform preparation.

When the platform configuration is established, your planned deployment action can proceed using the required procedures in Part II: NSP system deployment, for system-level NSP deployment operations, and Part III: NSP component deployment, for operations specific to NSP components that are deployed outside an NSP cluster.