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+Installation High-Level Overview - Virtual Deployment
+=====================================================
+
+The VM nodes deployment operates almost the same way as the bare metal deploymen
+t with a
+few differences.  ``opnfv-deploy`` still deploys an Instack VM. In addition to t
+he Instack VM
+a collection of VMs (3 control nodes + 2 compute for an HA deployment or 1 contr
+ol node and
+1 compute node for a Non-HA Deployment) will be defined for the target OPNFV dep
+loyment.
+The part of the toolchain that executes IPMI power instructions calls into libvi
+rt instead of
+the IPMI interfaces on baremetal servers to operate the power managment.  These
+VMs are then
+provisioned with the same disk images and configuration that baremetal would be.
+
+To RDO Manager these nodes look like they have just built and registered the sam
+e way as
+bare metal nodes, the main difference is the use of a libvirt driver for the pow
+er management.
+
+Installation Guide - Virtual Deployment
+=======================================
+
+This section goes step-by-step on how to correctly install and provision the OPNFV target system to VM nodes.
+
+Install Jumphost
+----------------
+
+Follow the instructions in the `Install Bare Metal Jumphost`_ section.
+
+Running ``opnfv-deploy``
+------------------------
+
+You are now ready to deploy OPNFV!
+``opnfv-deploy`` has virtual deployment capability that includes all of
+the configuration nessesary to deploy OPNFV with no modifications.
+
+If no modifications are made to the included configurations the target environment
+will deploy with the following architecture:
+
+    - 1 Instack VM
+
+    - The option of 3 control and 2 compute VMs (HA Deploy / default)
+      or 1 control and 1 compute VM (Non-HA deploy / pass -n)
+
+    - 2 networks, one for provisioning, internal API,
+      storage and tenant networking traffic and a second for the external network
+
+Follow the steps below to execute:
+
+1.  ``sudo opnfv-deploy --virtual [ --no-ha ]``
+
+2.  It will take approximately 30 minutes to stand up instack,
+    define the target virtual machines, configure the deployment and execute the deployment.
+    You will notice different outputs in your shell.
+
+3.  When the deployment is complete you will see "Overcloud Deployed"
+
+Verifying the Setup - VMs
+-------------------------
+
+To verify the set you can follow the instructions in the `Verifying the Setup`_ section.
+
+Before you get started following these instructions you will need to add IP addresses on the networks that have been
+created for the External and provisioning networks. By default the External network is 192.168.37.0/24 and the
+provisioning network is 192.0.2.0/24. To access these networks simply add an IP to brbm and brbm1 and set their link to
+up. This will provide a route from the hypervisor into the virtual networks acting as OpenStack's underlay network in
+the virtual deployment.
+
+| ``ip addr add 192.0.2.252/24 dev brbm``
+| ``ip link set up dev brbm``
+| ``ip addr add 192.168.37.252/24 dev brbm1``
+| ``ip link set up dev brbm1``
+
+Once these IP addresses are assigned and the links are up the gateways on the overcloud's networks should be pingable
+and read to be SSHed to.
+
+| ``ping 192.0.2.1``
+| ``ping 192.168.37.1``
+
+Now continue with the `Verifying the Setup`_ section.