Deployment in a VM
Description
The requirements and restrictions below apply to NFM-P component deployment in a virtual machine, or VM. VM deployment is supported in the following environments:
Note: The requirements and restrictions in NFM-P deployment requirements also apply to VM deployments.
Note: Before you deploy an NFM-P component in a VMware VM, you must install the latest VMware Tools software.
See the NSP Planning Guide for the hardware virtualization requirements, and for the specific configuration requirements of a supported environment.
VM deployment using disk images
You can use disk images to deploy the RHEL OS in a KVM or RHEL OpenStack environment for subsequent NFM-P component installation; see NSP disk deployment.
NFM-P server and database virtualization
The following conditions apply to main server, auxiliary server, client delegate server, or database deployments in VMs.
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The guest OS must be a supported version of RHEL, as specified in the NSP Planning Guide.
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RHEL deployment on VMware requires VMXNET 3 NIC adapters; see the VMware documentation for information.
Client virtualization
The following conditions apply to NFM-P single-user GUI client deployment in a VM.
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You can deploy a VM client in a live network environment only if the client resources are dedicated to the guest OS, and not shared or oversubscribed.
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The guest OS must be a supported OS version; see the NSP Planning Guide.
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The supported connection application for a VMware ESXi Windows platform is Windows Remote Desktop.
Additional EMS requirements and restrictions
The following conditions apply to an NFM-P single-user GUI client or client delegate server in a VM that requires the installation of an additional element manager on the same platform, or is to use an additional NE management interface.
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You can use two or more NICs to isolate network traffic between the client VM and the managed NEs. Such a configuration may be required when an additional element manager, for example, NEtO, must share the client resources, or when web-based NE management is to be performed from the client station.
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Additional RAM, disk space, and CPU resources are required to accommodate an element manager that shares a client platform; see the NSP Planning Guide.