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Prepare Your Environment for Reservation Manager

Before you set up Reservation Manager, prepare your environment by collecting the following information:

1. Identify the systems to include in the Reservation Manager inventory for fulfilling reservation requests. Required system information includes the following:
   • Default password for Windows, AIX, Solaris, or Linux
   • Network Interface Controller model
2. Verify that the required Network Interface Controller device driver is available in one or more of the OS images that is made available to users.
3. Identify the operating systems and versions to deploy.
4. Confirm CA ITCM support for each Windows and Linux operating environment.
5. Identify the virtual platforms that you support and confirm the corresponding server support. The following are examples of servers and platforms to consider:

   Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)

   Provides imaging functionality for Windows and Linux provisioning to the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2).

   CA ITCM Server - OSIM Imaging

   Provisions computers running Windows or Linux operating systems using the CA ITCM OS installation technology (OSIM), which also contains Software Delivery.

   Citrix XenServer

   Citrix XenServer is a managed server virtualization platform that provides functionality to deploy virtual machines using preconfigured system information.

   Huawei GalaX

   The Huawei GalaX environment is part of the Huawei SingleCLOUD solution and designed for cloud computing data centers of cloud service providers or enterprise customers. The Huawei GalaX environment consists of an Elastic Service Controller (ESC) and subordinate computing and storage clusters.

   The Huawei SingleCLOUD solution consists of an abstract layered architecture. The devices on the physical layer and network layer are integrated into the solution. Based on cluster, distributed storage, NAS storage, and virtualization technologies, these integrated devices provide the storage, computing, and network services to upper-layer services. A discovered Huawei SingleCLOUD instance in CA Server Automation provides the required infrastructure to manage and monitor your Huawei GalaX environment.

   Hyper-V SCVMM

   The System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) provides functionality to deploy systems using templates and customization profiles for hardware and operating system options. Most sites have either Microsoft Hyper-V or VMware vCenter, but not both.

   Note: Reservation Manager supports Hyper-V provisioning of Windows Server 2003 and Windows Server 2008 operating systems. Windows 7 and Windows Vista are not supported.

   IBM PowerVM (HMC/IVM)

   Provides management and virtualization capabilities for IBM PowerVM logical partitions on AIX operating systems.

   NIM Master Server

   Provides imaging functionality for computers running IBM AIX operating systems. This component is required only if you provision IBM AIX operating systems. Multiple NIM Master Servers are supported. The NIM Master Server must be configured and system resources and resource groups must be created and configured on the NIM Master Server. The NIM Master Server must be registered with CA Server Automation.

   Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (RHEV)

   Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization is a virtualization management solution that also provides functionality to deploy virtual machines using preconfigured system information.

   Software Delivery Adapter

   The Packaging component that installs requested software to the servers allocated to fulfill a reservation request. Software Delivery is required to add software to existing servers.

   Solaris JumpStart Server

   Provides imaging functionality for computers running Solaris operating systems. This component is only required if you provision Solaris operating systems.

   VMware vCenter Server

   Provides functionality to deploy virtual machines using custom templates and specifications.

6. Identify all users to grant access to Reservation Manager. Confirm the following:
   • Reservation Manager administrator users
   • Reservation Manager end users
7. If you are using native CA EEM security, verify that all users are defined in the CA EEM database.