plan.html.md.erb

---
breadcrumb: <%= vars.product_name %> Documentation
title: Planning Your Pivotal Platform Deployment
owner: <%= vars.product_name %> Documentation
---

<% current_page.data.title = "Planning Your " + vars.product_name + " Deployment" %>

This documentation provides an overview of how to plan a <%= vars.product_name  %> installation.


## <a id='overview'></a> Overview

In planning a <%= vars.product_name %> installation, you should:

- Review the Requirements for your IaaS.

- Refer to the Reference Architecture for your IaaS.

- Assess your platform needs, including capacity, availability, container support, host OS, resource isolation, and geographical distribution. Discuss with your Pivotal contact.

For all of the above, the specifics depend on the IaaS that you are deploying <%= vars.product_name %> to. The contents of this documentation are organized by IaaS.


## <a id='contents'></a> Contents

### <a id='requirements'></a> General Requirements

<%# Find this partial in GitHub at `pivotal-cf/docs-partials` %>
<%= partial "/pcf/core/#{vars.current_major_version.sub('.', '-')}/requirements" %>

### <a id='front-end'></a> Front End Planning for All IaaSes

 - [Providing a Certificate for your SSL Termination Point](../opsguide/security_config.html)
 - [Using Your Own Load Balancer](./custom-load-balancer.html)
 - [Preparing Your Firewall](./config_firewall.html)
 - [(Optional) Installing <%= vars.product_name %> in Air-Gapped Environments](./offline_installation.html)

### <a id='specific'></a> IaaS-Specific Planning

* Amazon Web Services (AWS)

  - [<%= vars.product_name %> on AWS Requirements](./aws.html)
  - [AWS Reference Architecture](../plan/aws/aws_ref_arch.html)
  - [<%= vars.product_name %> on AWS Permissions Guidelines](./aws-iaas-user-roles.html)

* Microsoft Azure

  - [<%= vars.product_name %> on Azure Requirements](./azure.html)
  - [Azure Reference Architecture](../plan/azure/azure_ref_arch.html)

* Google Cloud Platform (GCP)

  - [<%= vars.product_name %> on GCP Requirements](./gcp.html)
  - [GCP Reference Architecture](../plan/gcp/gcp_ref_arch.html)
  - [GCP Resource Quota Guidelines](./gcp-quotas.html)

* OpenStack

  - [<%= vars.product_name %> on OpenStack Requirements](./openstack.html)
  - [OpenStack Reference Architecture](../plan/openstack/openstack_ref_arch.html)

* vSphere

  - [<%= vars.product_name %> on vSphere Requirements](./vsphere.html)
  - [vSphere Reference Architecture](../plan/vsphere/vsphere_ref_arch.html)
  - [Configuring SSL Termination for vSphere Deployments](../opsguide/ssl-term.html)
  - [vSphere Virtual Disk Types](./disk-format.html)
  - [vSphere Permissions Guidelines](/platform/ops-manager/<%= vars.current_major_version.sub('.', '-') %>/vsphere/vsphere-service-account.html)
  - [Availability Zones in vSphere](./understand-az.html)