Prerequisites

Tenant Subscription

• ID of the Tenant Subscription where Cloud Assert components need to be deployed

• Tenant Subscription administrator account credentials

• A tenant subscription created from an Azure Stack Offer/Plan that includes Microsoft Compute, Storage and Network services with default quotas added

• Upon creating the tenant subscription, the Microsoft Compute, Storage and Network services need to be registered from the Subscription > Resource Providers blade in the Tenant portal

Certificate

• For integrated systems (i.e. multi-node), a .pfx certificate with the following domain, along with the certificate chain (i.e., root authority and any intermediate authorities): *.cloudassert.<Azure Stack region>.<Azure Stack external FQDN> should be procured from a public authority.

• For ASDK, certificate is generated as a part of the deployment.

• Password for the .pfx certificate (Password should not contain the following characters ^ ` ~ & % *)

Others

• Download the Windows 2016 Datacenter image from the marketplace through the Marketplace Management blade in the Admin portal

• Netbios name of the Azure Stack domain (On ASDK, the default is AzureStack)

• Azure Stack service Admin account credentials (Azure AD account)

  • Ensure if the service Admin account has "Global Administrator" role (Password should not contain the following characters ^ ` ~ & % *)

• Azure Stack cloud administrator credential for Privileged endpoint access E.g., <Azure Stack domain>\cloudadmin (Password should not contain the following characters ^ ` ~ & % *)

• Install Azure PowerShell version with respect to Azure Stack Version (Azure PowerShell)

  • Ensure that Azure PowerShell version 1.6.0 is available for Azure stack version 1811, PowerShell version 1.7.0 for Azure stack version 1901 & 1902 and PowerShell version 1.7.1 for Azure Stack version 1904