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Installing
Learn how to install the product.
Deploy HCL VersionVault
Read these topics for information about planning, installing, and configuring your HCL VersionVault deployment.
Plan your deployment
Review a checklist of required and optional tasks with links to additional information for planning the installation and deployment process for HCL VersionVault and HCL VersionVault MultiSite.
Enterprise software installation strategies
HCL VersionVault can be installed by using an enterprise strategy.
Placing the product package on an HTTP web server
There are several steps to follow to place the product package on an HTTP web server.

Installing
Learn how to install the product.
- HCL VersionVault Release Notes
  To learn about the changes in the product, see the release notes.
- Deploy HCL VersionVault
  Read these topics for information about planning, installing, and configuring your HCL VersionVault deployment.
  - Requirements
    Review the requirements information to identify system requirements, prerequisite tasks, and other information needed to successfully install or upgrade HCL VersionVault and HCL VersionVault MultiSite
  - Plan your deployment
    Review a checklist of required and optional tasks with links to additional information for planning the installation and deployment process for HCL VersionVault and HCL VersionVault MultiSite.
    - Enterprise software installation strategies
      HCL VersionVault can be installed by using an enterprise strategy.
      - Placing the product package on an HTTP web server
        There are several steps to follow to place the product package on an HTTP web server.
      - Installing from a repository on an HTTP or HTTPS web server
        In this scenario, IBM Installation Manager retrieves the product packages from an HTTP or HTTPS web server.
      - Placing the electronic image on a shared directory
        In this scenario, you place the electronic image on a shared directory or drive so that users in your enterprise can access the installation files for the product from a single location.
      - Installation scenario walkthroughs
        These instructions walk you through four key scenarios for installing VersionVault.
    - HCL VersionVault Explorer installation planning
      Install the HCL VersionVault Explorer web client to access and modify resources under HCL VersionVault source control through dynamic views or web views.
    - HCL VersionVault MultiSite installation
      Review requirements and other considerations to consider when planning the installation of the HCL VersionVault MultiSite.
    - VersionVault for Microsoft Visual Studio installation planning
      VersionVault for Visual Studio can be deployed with the VersionVault for Windows™ client or with the VersionVault Explorer. After deployment, HCL VersionVault for Visual Studio provides an interface to complete HCL VersionVault operations from the Microsoft™ Visual Studio IDE.
    - Selecting the HCL VersionVault registry server
      Before running any of the installation programs, you must select a host to be your HCL VersionVault registry server. As the installation prompts you for this information, you must prepare this host beforehand.
    - Planning VersionVault support for ACL-enabled VOBs and VOB objects
      If you plan to include ACL-enabled VOBs in your HCL VersionVault environment, review important information about planning installation and upgrade for clients and servers, preparing VOBs, cross-version compatibility, and operating in a mixed version environment.
    - Managing licensing for HCL VersionVault
      Products in the HCL VersionVault product family implement an active-user floating-license scheme.
    - Specifying the default registry region
      An HCL VersionVault registry region (or network region) is a conceptual partition of a local area network required to install the product. During the installation process, you must specify a default region name for your site.
    - Preparing shared locations for an enterprise deployment
      If you are using an enterprise deployment strategy, you must prepare your shared locations before users can install the product packages.
    - Verify that the required Linux™ software packages are installed
      Instructions for verifying whether the required software packages are installed on your system depend on which version of Linux™ you are running.
  - Install HCL VersionVault clients and servers
    The method that is used to install HCL VersionVault depends on the target platform and on your installation strategy.
  - Configuring your environment after deploying
    For some types of HCL VersionVault and HCL VersionVault MultiSite hosts, you must complete some configuration tasks after you have installed the products.
- Use IBM® installation and packaging utilities
  Use IBM installation and packaging utilities to download and install software.

Placing the product package on an HTTP web server

There are several steps to follow to place the product package on an HTTP web server.

Procedure

To prepare the product for installation from a repository on an HTTP or HTTPS web server or shared drive/directory:

Ensure that the HTTP or HTTPS web server or shared drive/directory has sufficient disk space to store the product package.
Ensure that your workstation has sufficient disk space to store both the files that you must download and the extracted installation image.
Download all the required parts for the product image to a temporary directory on your workstation.
Extract the installation image from the downloaded files into another temporary directory on your workstation and verify that the installation image is complete.
Install on your workstation the IBM Packaging Utility. See Installing Packaging Utility.
Using the Packaging Utility, copy the product package. See Copying product packages using Packaging Utility.
Copy the output of the Packaging Utility to an HTTP or HTTPS web Server or shared drive/directory.
Copy the installation files for IBM Installation Manager to a shared drive/directory. See Installation Manager.
Instruct users in your organization to install Installation Manager from the shared drive/directory. See Installation Manager tasks for more information about installing the Installation Manager.
Provide users with the URL to the repository that contains the product package you created earlier and provide them with information that they must complete the installation with the Installation Manager, such as license information, product settings and other values that are specific to your deployment.

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