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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.
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.

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.
    - 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.

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 Explorer can be used to access:

Dynamic views, when HCL VersionVault is installed on the client machine. A format of the client is installed as part of the HCL VersionVault installation. Other formats can be installed separately when required.
Web views from the HCL VersionVault Remote Client, when you have access to a VersionVault WAN server.

The HCL VersionVault Explorer technology is packaged in three formats:

HCL VersionVault Explorer, a standalone self-contained application
- Installed (and updated) using IBM® Installation Manager
- Installed as part of the HCL VersionVault client install
- Installed separately on client machines without HCL VersionVault, for HCL VersionVault Remote Client use.
- Optionally integrates with supported versions of Microsoft Visual Studio
HCL VersionVault Explorer for Eclipse, which integrates HCL VersionVault Explorer functionality into Eclipse. This is installed (or updated) using Eclipse Update from an update site available on a VersionVault WAN server

Planning for HCL VersionVault Explorer or HCL VersionVault Explorer Extension installation

You must set up a shared location from which users can access and install HCL VersionVault Explorer. The remote client and the Extension are provided as IBM® Installation Manager offerings that are separate from the VersionVault offering. The shared location setup for the HCL VersionVault Explorer offerings requires the same steps as the shared location setup for HCL VersionVault: preparing shared locations for an enterprise deployment.

After shared locations are set up, users can install or update the HCL VersionVault Explorer or HCL VersionVault Explorer Extension.

Users of web views on computers without an HCL VersionVault installation must install or upgrade HCL VersionVault Explorer separately.

Planning for HCL VersionVault Explorer for Eclipse installation

When you install HCL VersionVault with the VersionVault WAN server, an update site is installed on the server machine. To install the HCL VersionVault Explorer for Eclipse, users access this update site using the Eclipse Update Manager in Eclipse versions 4.6 or later.

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