Cisco Elastic Services Controller 5.2 Install and Upgrade Guide

Virtual Resource Requirements

The following table lists the virtual resource requirements for Cisco Elastic Services Controller:


ESC Deployment	Virtual CPU per ESC VM	Virtual Memory (GB) per ESC VM	Virtual Hard Disk (GB)per ESC VM	Number of total VMs Supported	VIM
ESC Standalone	4	8	30	1000	All supported VIMs
ESC Active/Standby HA	4	8	30	2500	All supported VIMs
ESC Active/Active HA/ GEO HA	8	16	60	5000	OpenStack Only

The following table lists the software requirements on OpenStack:


Requirements	Description
Supported Browsers	Google Chrome 44.x or later
OpenStack Version	Any of the following: Train Ocata (V2 and V3) Queens (Keystone V3)

Before you perform the installation, ensure that you are prepared by reviewing this checklist:


Requirements	Your Information/ Notes
For Pre-installation Configuration
QCOW image location
QCOW image
VM per Instance
IP address
Subnet mask
Hostname
Domain name
Gateway IP address
Admin password
ESC Release Package
ESC.qcow2	An image file for booting up the ESC instance
bootvm.py	The installation script compatible with python 2.7.6 and Python 3.4