Decision Summary

The goals of this step were to ensure that network connectivity between Virtual Machine Manager servers and agents is sufficient in terms of network bandwidth and that required firewall rules are in place to allow traffic to flow as necessary.

In this step, the following data was used to determine network bandwidth and network port requirements:

  • Information about the locations containing hosts that the team collected in step 1.

  • List of required Virtual Machine Manager instances that the team collected in step 4.

  • The placement of Virtual Machine Manager servers, database servers, and Web servers, which the team determined in step 5.

  • The placement of Virtual Machine Manager library servers, determined in step 6.

The output of this ...

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