Before you begin with cloud services on NetApp HCI, your cloud administrator should have completed networking and other requirements.
All cloud services on NetApp HCI, including Cloud Volumes on NetApp HCI, require NetApp Kubernetes Service (NKS) and these prerequisites.
System requirements
- A deployed NetApp HCI 1.6 or later using the NetApp Deployment Engine
- Upgraded NetApp HCI management services. See management services information in the NetApp Element User Guide.
- NetApp Hybrid Cloud Control available on the management node of your system.
- NetApp HCI management node 2.1
- Your version of VMware vCenter supported by the NetApp HCI Deployment Engine (NDE)
- All nodes must have IP addresses assigned to them by DHCP. A DHCP server must be able to run on all NKS networks.
- The "NetApp-HCI-Datastore-02" datastore must exist in vSphere. If the datastore does not exist, the cloud services installation will not be successful. Before enabling cloud services, check vSphere to see that the datastore is there.
- Running NKS services through a proxy server is not supported.
System size requirements
- 2x4 systems are not supported for production use. However, you can use these for demo work.
- 3x4 systems are the minimum production system size we support.
- 4x4 systems are the recommended minimum size.
NetApp Kubernetes Service requirements
- An NKS account
- An NKS API token, which authorizes the installer to access the NetApp Kubernetes Service organization. You can create this before or during the process of enabling cloud services on NetApp HCI.
Networking requirements
- You must have already configured the required vSphere distributed switches (VDS). VMware standard switches (VSS) are not supported.
- You must have already configured the recommended vSphere distributed switch (VDS) port groups:
- NetApp HCI VDS 01-HCI_Internal_NKS_Management
- NetApp HCI VDS 01-HCI_Internal_NKS_Workload
- NetApp HCI VDS 01-HCI_Internal_NKS_Data
- Using VDS requires a vSphere Enterprise Plus license. You must have this license.