Platform Foundation Deployment

Platform Foundation Deployment establishes the foundational Illumio platform capabilities required to begin a successful Zero Trust Segmentation journey.

The service enables customers to deploy, configure, validate, and operationalize the Illumio platform while onboarding workloads into visibility. The engagement focuses on creating a production-ready environment that provides the visibility, administrative controls, deployment methodology, and operational foundation required for future labeling, discovery, containment, and segmentation activities.

Illumio Professional Services works with customer stakeholders to configure the platform, validate readiness, onboard workloads, review deployment methods, document operational procedures, and establish a repeatable deployment model. The service provides customers with a functioning Illumio environment and the documentation required to continue expanding their deployment after the engagement.

The intended outcome is a customer-owned Illumio deployment operating in Visibility Mode and prepared for future policy-development services.

Illumio package prerequisites:

• None  

Technical Readiness

• Illumio licensing available
• Supported operating systems identified
• Administrative access requirements identified
• Deployment tooling identified
• Connectivity requirements identified
• SIEM destination identified
• Identity provider available for SSO integration  

Customer Readiness

• Project sponsor assigned
• Technical point of contact assigned
• Workload inventory available
• Customer workload owners identified
• Deployment owners identified
• Change management process documented
• Required access approved

Platform Operational Configuration

• Configure customer access to the Illumio platform.
• Configure and validate Single Sign-On (SSO).
• Configure logging integration for supported log forwarding methods.
• Validate logging delivery into the customer SIEM.
• Review platform administrative access requirements.

Deployment Planning

• Review workload inventory.
• Categorize workloads by operating system.
• Review customer deployment methodology.
• Identify deployment ownership and responsibilities.
• Review automation and software-distribution approaches.
• Review onboarding expectations and support responsibilities. API enablement

VEN Installation and Validation

• Facilitate installation of up to ten (10) sample VENs per supported operating system type.
• Validate successful workload pairing.
• Validate deployment methodology.
• Review installation outcomes and onboarding process.

Customer Outcome:

Customer administrators can access and operate the platform, logging is integrated into the customer's monitoring ecosystem, deployment methods are validated, and compatibility findings have been documented for future onboarding activities.

Compatibility Assessment

• Execute VEN compatibility reporting.
• Review existing host firewall configurations.
• Identify operating-system conflicts or compatibility issues.
• Identify workload-specific remediation requirements.
• Review findings with customer stakeholders.
• Document workloads requiring corrective actions before transitioning to Visibility Mode.

End of Engagement Summary and Handoff

• Review customer change-management process.
• Identify risks associated with future workload onboarding and Visibility Mode transitions.
• Develop onboarding documentation.
• Document deployment methodology.
• Document operational recommendations.
• Document next-step guidance for future onboarding activities.

The delivery schedule will be established at project initiation based on:

• Package size
• Number of operating systems
• Identity-provider complexity
• Logging integration complexity
• Customer deployment methodology
• Customer review cycles Stakeholder availability

Delays in access provisioning, identity integration, logging configuration, customer validation, or deployment participation may affect the delivery schedule.

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