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<section id="installation-steps-overview">
    <title>Overview of Installation Steps</title>
    <para>For anything more than a simple trial installation, you will need guidance for a variety of configuration choices. It is strongly recommended that you read the following:</para>
    <itemizedlist>
        <listitem><para>Choosing a Deployment Architecture</para></listitem>
        <listitem><para>Choosing a Hypervisor: Supported Features</para></listitem>
        <listitem><para>Network Setup</para></listitem>
        <listitem><para>Storage Setup</para></listitem>
        <listitem><para>Best Practices</para></listitem>
    </itemizedlist>
    <orderedlist>
    <listitem>
    <para>Make sure you have the required hardware ready. See <xref linkend="minimum-system-requirements"/></para>
    </listitem>
    <listitem>
    <para>Install the Management Server (choose single-node or multi-node). See <xref linkend="management-server-install-flow"/></para>
    </listitem>
    <listitem>
    <para>Log in to the UI. See <xref linkend="ui"/></para>
    </listitem>
    <listitem>
    <para>Add a zone. Includes the first pod, cluster, and host. See <xref linkend="zone-add"/></para>
    </listitem>
    <listitem>
    <para>Add more pods (optional). See <xref linkend="pod-add"/></para>
    </listitem>
    <listitem>
    <para>Add more clusters (optional). See <xref linkend="cluster-add"/></para>
    </listitem>
    <listitem>
        <para>Add more hosts (optional). See <xref linkend="host-add"/></para>
    </listitem>
    <listitem>
    <para>Add more primary storage (optional). See <xref linkend="primary-storage-add"/></para>
    </listitem>
    <listitem>
    <para>Add more secondary storage (optional). See <xref linkend="secondary-storage-add"/></para>
    </listitem>
    <listitem>
    <para>Try using the cloud. See <xref linkend="initialize-and-test"/></para>
    </listitem>
    </orderedlist>
</section>