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Compliance and Verification program system preparation guide
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Version history
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| **Date**   | **Ver.** | **Author**       | **Comment**                      |
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| 2017-04-25 | 0.0.1    | Chris Price      | Draft version                    |
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Introduction
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This system preparation guide provides a detailed outline of the needed system prerequisites
and expectations for running OPNFV evaluation testing.

Test planning and preparation
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https://jira.opnfv.org/browse/DOVETAIL-384

Give an outline of the planning phase.

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Pre-requisites
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Describe what needs to be in place before starting.

Required Infrastructure, connectivity needs, LF & CVP accounts and any additional security or peripheral needs.
Use sub-chapters for instance for any accounts etc that need to be created.

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Preparing the virtualisation infrastructure
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Briefly state what will be tested as an intro, then outline the required system state to be achieved prior to running the tests.

Preparing the test staging host system
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https://jira.opnfv.org/browse/DOVETAIL-385

What is required from the system running the CVP test suites?

Required network configuration
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https://jira.opnfv.org/browse/DOVETAIL-386

VLAN configurations required for NFV deployments.  Non-VLAN configurations if needed.

Preparing your system for CVP testing
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https://jira.opnfv.org/browse/DOVETAIL-387

Describe how to realise the "Pharos ready state" and the "Software ready state" in this section.