Prerequisites for deploying Deepfactor portal in VWware vSphere

The easiest way to set up Deepfactor Portal in your VMware environment with the following resources:

1. VMware ESXi host or VMware cluster with vCenter
2. Network ability to pull resources from the internet, this can include an HTTP proxy service
3. Enough resources to create a VM instance with:
  a. 32GB RAM
  b. 8 vCPU
  c. 520GB Disk
4. Ability to assign a DNS A name record to an IP address
5. vSphere role with the minimum privileges (see below)

You will need a vCenter role with the following minimum privileges:

Datastore
 - Browse datastore
 - Remove file
 - Update virtual machine files
 - Update virtual machine metadata
Global
 - Cancel task
Host
 - Local operations
     o Create virtual machine
     o Delete virtual machine
     o Reconfigure virtual machine
vSphere Tagging
 - Assign or Unassign vSphere Tag
 - Assign or Unassign vSphere Tag on Object
 - Create vSphere Tag
 - Create vSphere Tag Category
 - Delete vSphere Tag
 - Delete vSphere Tag Category
 - Edit vSphere Tag
 - Edit vSphere Tag Category
 - Modify UsedBy Field For Category
 - Modify UsedBy Field For Tag
 - Scheduled task
Create tasks
 - Modify task
 - Remove task
 - Run task
vApp
 - Add virtual machine
 - Assign resource pool
 - Assign vApp
 - Clone
 - Create
 - Delete
 - Export
 - Import
 - Move
 - Power off
 - Power on
 - Pull from URL
 - Rename
 - Suspend
 - Unregister
 - View OVF environment
 - vApp application configuration
 - vApp instance configuration
 - vApp managedBy configuration
 - vApp resource configuration
Virtual machine
 - Change Configuration
     o Acquire disk lease
     o Add existing disk
     o Add new disk
     o Add or remove device
     o Advanced configuration
     o Change CPU count
     o Change Memory
     o Change Settings
     o Change Swapfile placement
     o Change resource
     o Configure Host USB device
     o Configure Raw device
     o Configure managedBy
     o Display connection settings
     o Extend virtual disk
     o Modify device settings
     o Query Fault Tolerance compatibility
     o Query unowned files
     o Reload from path
     o Remove disk
     o Rename
     o Reset guest information
     o Set annotation
     o Toggle disk change tracking
     o Toggle fork parent
     o Upgrade virtual machine compatibility
 - Edit Inventory
     o Create from existing
     o Create new
     o Move
     o Register
     o Remove
     o Unregister
 - Interaction
     o Answer question
     o Configure CD media
     o Configure floppy media
     o Connect devices
     o Console interaction
     o Guest operating system management by VIX API
     o Install VMware Tools
     o Power off
     o Power on
     o Reset
     o Suspend
 - Provisioning
     o Allow disk access
     o Allow file access
     o Allow read-only disk access
     o Allow virtual machine download
     o Allow virtual machine files upload
     o Clone template
     o Clone virtual machine
     o Create template from virtual machine
     o Customize guest
     o Deploy template
     o Mark as template
     o Mark as virtual machine
     o Modify customization specification
     o Promote disks
     o Read customization specifications
 - Snapshot management
     o Create snapshot
     o Remove snapshot
     o Rename snapshot
     o Revert to snapshot