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Introduction

Who Should Read This

For those who have already gone through a design phase and planned a more sophisticated deployment, or those who are ready to start scaling up a trial installation. With the following procedures, you can start using the more powerful features of CloudStack, such as advanced VLAN networking, high availability, additional Network elements such as load balancers and firewalls, and support for multiple hypervisors including Citrix XenServer, KVM, and VMware vSphere.

Installation Steps

For anything more than a simple trial installation, you will need guidance for a variety of configuration choices. It is strongly recommended that you read the following:

  • Choosing a Deployment Architecture
  • Choosing a Hypervisor: Supported Features
  • Network Setup
  • Storage Setup
  • Best Practices
  1. Make sure you have the required hardware ready. See :ref:`minimum-system-requirements`
  2. Install the Management Server (choose single-node or multi-node). See :ref:`install-mgt`
  3. Configure your cloud. See :ref:`Configuring_your_CloudStack_Installation`
    1. Using CloudStack UI. See User Interface :ref:`log-in-to-ui`
    2. Add a zone. Includes the first pod, cluster, and host. See :ref:`adding-a-zone`
    3. Add more pods (optional). See :ref:`adding-a-pod`
    4. Add more clusters (optional). See :ref:`adding-a-cluster`
    5. Add more hosts (optional). See :ref:`adding-a-host`
    6. Add more primary storage (optional). See :ref:`add-primary-storage`
    7. Add more secondary storage (optional). See :ref:`add-secondary-storage`
  4. Try using the cloud. See :ref:`initialize-and-test`