Deploying NPS toolkit VM
For Windows or other host machines, bring up virtual machine as specified in Specifications of NPS Toolkit Virtual Machine.
- Networking and switches
Ensure that all connections are as per the port map.
Ensure that the management interface of HPE FlexFabric 5900 (management switch) is connected with the customer infrastructure switch and part of iLO VLAN.
Ensure that M0/0/0 of HPE FlexFabric 5900 is defined and statically assigned in the range of iLO-OOBM range.
Ensure that the OAM and iLO IP addresses of the core switch are defined.
- NPS toolkit host
Ensure that OAM IP is assigned to the NPS toolkit host.
Ensure that there is Internet connectivity available for NPS toolkit host.
Ensure that the capacity of the directory for copying the install bits is more than 300 GB.
Ensure that the NPS toolkit host has minimum 4GB RAM and 4 CPUs allocation.
- Ensure that latest centOS 7 is installed in the NPS toolkit host. This must be a virtualization host.NOTE:
During centOS installation in the host machine, select Virtualization Host.
and click
- NPS toolkit VM
Ensure that you have downloaded the latest NPS and VIM bits from the My HPE Software Center kiosk.
Ensure that a Customer Network IP address is provided for the NPS toolkit VM in the TICG while creating the
input.json
file. NPS toolkit VM is accessed remotely using the assigned Customer Network IP address.