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= Preparing the environment for virtualized control planes
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Prepare your hosting cluster environment before deploying a virtualized control plane cluster.
This includes installing and configuring KubeVirt Redfish and creating the control plane VMs.

:FeatureName: KubeVirt Redfish
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include::modules/proc_virt-installing-kubevirt-redfish.adoc[leveloffset=+1]

include::modules/proc_virt-creating-vcp-vms.adoc[leveloffset=+1]

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== Additional resources

* xref:../installing/installing_with_agent_based_installer/preparing-to-install-with-agent-based-installer.adoc#agent-based-installer-recommended-resources_preparing-to-install-with-agent-based-installer[Recommended resources for topologies]
* xref:../virt/vm_networking/virt-connecting-vm-to-secondary-udn.adoc#virt-connecting-vm-to-secondary-udn[Connecting a virtual machine to a secondary localnet user-defined network]
