Purpose

The VMware Smart Assurance Service Assurance Manager Deployment Guide describes how to deploy the VMware Smart Assurance Service Assurance Manager and related components of the VMware Smart Assurance Service Assurance Manager.

This guide is intended as a comprehensive resource for deployment tasks. In many cases, you will be referred to other VMware Smart Assurance documents for specific procedures and configuration tasks, such as:

• VMware Smart Assurance Installation Guide for SAM, IP, ESM, MPLS, and NPM Managers ” This document that accompanied your software product contains detailed hardware requirements, platform requirements, and installation procedures.

• VMware Smart Assurance Service Assurance Manager Configuration Guide ” This document contains information about the Global Manager Administration Console.

• VMware Smart Assurance System Administration Guide ” This document contains detailed administration procedures for the VMware Smart Assurance deployment.