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.

Client virtualization

The following conditions apply to NFM-P single-user GUI client deployment in a VM.

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.