1.0 Installation Checklist

To ensure that you successfully install and configure NetIQ Cloud Manager, you should follow the installation checklist provided below. Each task provides brief information and a reference to where you can find more complete details.

Task		Details
	Review Cloud Manager concepts and terminology	NetIQ Cloud Manager includes functionality and components you need to understand to successfully install, configure, maintain, and use the product. Cloud Manager also interacts with other products such as hypervisors and directory services. If you are not already familiar with Novell Cloud Manager concepts and its interaction with these other products, see the NetIQ Cloud Manager 2.3 Product Overview.
	Virtualize your physical datacenter	If you have not already applied the VMware vSphere (VCenter) virtualization infrastructure to your physical datacenter, you need to do so.
	Review the supported Cloud Manager environments and software installation requirements	See Section 2.0, Cloud Manager System Requirements and Section 2.6, Requirements and Cloud Manager Support for the Virtual Environment.
	Prepare for Orchestration components installation.	Some security certificate and licensing tasks must take place before you begin installing Orchestration components. See Section 4.0, Orchestration Components Preinstallation Tasks.
	Install the Cloud Manager Orchestration Server, the Orchestration Console, and the Orchestration Agent	The Cloud Manager Orchestration Server communicates with its Orchestration Agents. These agents establish communication with your virtualization infrastructure (hypervisor technology). With this link in place, the Cloud Manager Orchestration Server utilizes specialized provisioning adapter jobs to automate the provisioning, management, and deprovisioning of virtual machines. There are some alternative methods you can use for installing these components. See Section 5.0, Installing Cloud Manager Orchestration Components.
	Configure the Cloud Manager Orchestration components	Although you could install the Cloud Manager Application components while you have the installation media mounted on the SUSE server, it’s not likely that Application and Orchestration components will be installed on the same server. For this reason, you should configure the packages you have installed for the Orchestration components. These configuration tasks include: configuring the Orchestration Server configuring the Orchestration Agent creating a resource account in the Orchestration Console getting provisioning adapters running for VM discovery configuring the Orchestration Web service to connect to the Cloud Manager Application Server See Section 7.0, Configuring Cloud Manager Orchestration Components, Section 10.0, Creating a Resource Account, Section 11.0, Configuring Orchestration Provisioning Adapters, and Section 8.0, Configuring Connections to the Cloud Manager Application Server. NOTE:Although you might not need some of the advanced functionality in Orchestration components, you might be interested in the advanced configuration tasks detailed in Section 5.2, Alternative Installation Methods for the Orchestration Agent and in Section 5.3, Alternative Installation Methods for the Orchestration Console and Clients.
	Prepare for Cloud Manager installation	Before installing and configuring Cloud Manager, you need to prepare a remote database for storing Cloud Manager data. See Section 13.1, Configuring the PostgreSQL Database Connection and Credentials. You also need to decide which method you want to use to authenticate your users in the Cloud Manager system. The authentication method you use depends on the external authentication source or sources you have already implemented in your data center environment. The sources supported by NetIQ Cloud Manager include: LDAP (Active Directory or eDirectory) NetIQ Access Manager (NAM) There are required tasks you need to perform and information you need to gather for to prepare your chosen authentication source to support Cloud Manager authentication and configuration. See Section 13.0, Using the Cloud Manager Application Server Configuration Tool.
	Install the Cloud Manager Application Server and its console.	The Cloud Manager Application Server provides the interface through which users request virtual resources. Requests are communicated to the Orchestration Server, which performs the required virtualization operations in conjunction with your hypervisor technology. See Section 6.0, Installing Cloud Manager Application Server Components.
	Configure the Cloud Manager system	After installation, you must complete several configuration tasks before Cloud Manager can be used, including configuring the Cloud Manager Application Server authentication source connections configuring the Cloud Manager Application Server database connection See Section 13.0, Using the Cloud Manager Application Server Configuration Tool.

After you have completed the installation and configuration of both the Orchestration components and the Cloud Manager system, continue with Setting Up the Cloud Environment in the NetIQ Cloud Manager 2.3 Procedures Guide to start populating your Cloud Manager Application Server and Application Console with components to enable users to provision their own business services.