- resolvable hostname and IP-address
- An LDAP-Directory or Active Directory, with credentials wich have the rights to browse the directory. And you need the common name (CN) of the groups where the vCO users and the vCO admins are located
- Access to an empty database on a database server (MS SQL and Oracle are supported, for PostgreSQL and MySQL you have to do some further steps). If you want to use the MS SQL Express instance bundled with your vCenter, you also have to do some configuration steps
- Hostname and some credentials to your vCenter server (a special vCenter user with administrator role is recommended)
(Be sure to read through the discussion in the forums: http://communities.vmware.com/thread/280603 )
and see the “Create a self-service VM provisioning portal”-guide on
http://www.vcoteam.info/learn-vco/create-a-simple-vco-self-service-vm-provisioning-portal-part-1.html