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About This Guide
This preface briefly describes what this guide is about, who it is for, and how to read it.
Is this guide for me?
It is designed for most people who are interested in an overview of the Cisco OverDrive Network Hypervisor product, including:
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Network planners, configurators, and users of all types
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It is for anyone who wants to know basically what OverDrive Network Hypervisor is, architecturally and component-wise. It provides a common background that all users, installation experts, network admins, cloud creators, and VM providers are expected to know or be able to reference.
What is it about?
It describes the OverDrive Network Hypervisor product, its concepts architecture, terminology, and where to find the guides for how to install and use its various components. It is not task oriented.
How is it organized?
It proceeds from a high-level overview of architecture and concepts, to an introduction to the OverDrive Network Hypervisor Command Center views and terminology, and from there to a quick look at some example network management scenarios. It describes logical components, domains, local resources, VLANs, network identities, sites, collections, protocols, policies, and network topologies.
It then introduces the Cloud Configurator and Cloud Orchestration Manager (a subset of the configurator) as used to create clouds using metamodels, and then to create VMs using metamodels.
Appendices present equipment availability (adding new devices, etc.), and a glossary of terms and abbreviations
What other documentation do I need?
To install Cisco OverDrive Network Hypervisor and bring up the command center, see the Cisco OverDrive Network Hypervisor 4.0 Installation Guide; for task-oriented help in managing an OverDrive Network Hypervisor network, see Cisco OverDrive Network Hypervisor 4.0 User Guide. For end users to create, power up or down, and remove VMs to be used by people in their group, department, or customer base, see Providing VMs.
Conventions
This document uses the following conventions:
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