Prerequisites

Use this topic to prepare to deploy Domino on VMware vSphere with Tanzu.

Download the example Tanzu cluster YAML:

This tanzu-cluster.yaml defines the cluster configuration.
Review the prerequisites:

To install and configure Domino on Tanzu, you must have:
- quay.io credentials provided by Domino.
- An SSL certificate for your domain.
- If using GPUs with NVIDIA AI Enterprise, you will need access to your private NVIDIA image repository.
- A Linux terminal with the following:
  - Helm installed.
  - Kubectl installed.
  - Docker installed.
  - ddlctl installed.
- Platform Operator installed.
Validate the prerequisites:

To verify that the tools were installed correctly, run the following:
```
helm version
kubectl version
docker version
ddlctl version
```