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Chapter 8.
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Steps to Provisioning Your Cloud
Infrastructure
This section tells how to add regions, zones, pods, clusters, hosts, storage, and networks to your
cloud. If you are unfamiliar with these entities, please begin by looking through Chapter 3, Cloud
Infrastructure Concepts.
8.1. Overview of Provisioning Steps
After the Management Server is installed and running, you can add the compute resources for it to
manage. For an overview of how a CloudPlatform cloud infrastructure is organized, see Section 2.3.2,
“Cloud Infrastructure Overview”.
To provision the cloud infrastructure, or to scale it up at any time, follow these procedures:
1. Define regions (optional). See Section 8.2, “Adding Regions (optional)”.
2. Add a zone to the region. See Section 8.3, “Adding a Zone”.
3. Add more pods to the zone (optional). See Section 8.4, “Adding a Pod”.
4. Add more clusters to the pod (optional). See Section 8.5, “Adding a Cluster”.
5. Add more hosts to the cluster (optional). See Section 8.6, “Adding a Host”.
6. Add primary storage to the cluster. See Section 8.7, “Adding Primary Storage”.
7. Add secondary storage to the zone. See Section 8.8, “Adding Secondary Storage”.
8. Initialize and test the new cloud. See Section 8.9, “Initialize and Test”.
When you have finished these steps, you will have a deployment with the following basic structure: