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7.1. Overview of Provisioning Steps

After the Management Server is installed and running, you can add the compute resources for it to manage. For an overview of how a CloudStack cloud infrastructure is organized, see Section 1.3.2, “Cloud Infrastructure Overview”.
To provision the cloud infrastructure, or to scale it up at any time, follow these procedures:
  1. Define regions (optional). See Section 7.2, “Adding Regions (optional)”.
  2. Add a zone to the region. See Section 7.3, “Adding a Zone”.
  3. Add more pods to the zone (optional). See Section 7.4, “Adding a Pod”.
  4. Add more clusters to the pod (optional). See Section 7.5, “Adding a Cluster”.
  5. Add more hosts to the cluster (optional). See Section 7.6, “Adding a Host”.
  6. Add primary storage to the cluster. See Section 7.7, “Add Primary Storage”.
  7. Add secondary storage to the zone. See Section 7.8, “Add Secondary Storage”.
  8. Initialize and test the new cloud. See Section 7.9, “Initialize and Test”.
When you have finished these steps, you will have a deployment with the following basic structure:
provisioning-overview.png: Conceptual overview of a basic deployment