Deploy PowerCenter into an Existing VPC

The

CloudFormation

home page opens the

Create Stack

pane on the left. Stack is a logical representation of AWS deployment. In the

Select Template

section, you can design or choose a template. In the

Choose a template

section, ensure that the default Amazon S3 template URL is selected.

Click

To create a stack instance in the

Specify Details

section, enter the

stack name

or retain the default name. In the

Parameters

section, enter appropriate values for Network Configuration, Amazon EC2 Configuration, Amazon RDS Configuration, and Informatica PowerCenter Configuration.

The following table describes the parameters for Network Configuration:

Parameters	Description
VPC ID	Enter the ID of your existing VPC to deploy PowerCenter such as, vpc-0343606e. Ensure that the VPC has DNS resolution enabled.
Public Subnet 1 ID	Enter the publicly accessible subnet ID located in Availability Zone 1 for the Informatica domain. Attach the subnet to a route table attached to an internet gateway along with a local route to the VPC CIDR. Verify that you have set the Public IP assign property to yes for the subnet.
Public Subnet 2 ID	Enter the publicly accessible subnet ID located in Availability Zone 2 for the Informatica domain. Attach the subnet to a route table attached to an internet gateway along with a local route to the VPC CIDR. Verify that you have set the Public IP assign property to yes for the subnet.
Informatica Database Subnets	Enter the IDs of two private subnets in the selected VPC. Ensure that there are different availability zones in the selected VPC, such as us-west-1b and us-west-1c. Attach the subnet to a route table with a local route to the VPC CIDR.
Allowed Remote Access CIDR	Enter the permitted CIDR IP range to access the Informatica domain. Recommended to use a constrained CIDR range to reduce the potential of inbound attacks from unknown IP addresses. For example, if your IPv4 address is 203.0.113.25, specify 203.0.113.25/32 to list this single IPv4 address in CIDR notation. If your organization allocates addresses from a range, specify the entire range, such as 203.0.113.0/24.

Ensure that all the network configurations specified are under the same VPC.

The following table describes the parameters for Amazon EC2 Configuration:

Parameter	Description
Key Pair Name	Select the public or private key pair to securely connect to your instance after the instance launches. When you created an AWS account, this is the key pair that you created in your preferred region.
Informatica Domain Instance Type	Select the EC2 instance type for the instance that hosts the Informatica domain. Default is c5.xlarge.
Number of Instances	Enter the number of PowerCenter nodes you want to provision. You can choose from 1, 2, or up to 16 nodes (in multiples of 2) to be part of the domain. Each node runs on a single EC2 instance. Default is 1.
Enable Elastic IP Addressing	Select No if you do not want to assign Elastic IP addresses to instances. Default is Yes.
Create Elastic File System	Linux configuration to create shared storage for your instances with Amazon EFS if it is available in the specified region.

The following table describes the parameters for Amazon RDS Configuration:

Parameter	Description
Database Type	Enter the type of database to use in Amazon RDS. Supported types are Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server. Default is SQLServer-Standard-Edition-2016-License-Included
Database Name	Enter the database name for the RDS instance. Default is InfaDB.
Database Username	Enter the user name for the Amazon RDS database account (2-30 characters).
Database Password	Enter the password for the Amazon RDS database account (8-30 characters). You can use alphanumeric characters and underscore. Start the password with an alphabetic character.
Confirm Password	Re-enter the password you specified for the Database Password parameter.

The following table describes the parameters for Informatica PowerCenter Configuration:

Parameter	Description
Informatica Domain Name	Enter the name for the Informatica domain. Default is InfaDomain.
Informatica Node Prefix	Enter the prefix for the nodes in the Informatica domain. The node number gets added to the string, such as Infa1 and Infa2. Default is Infa.
Informatica Administrator Username	Enter the user name of the administrator account for Informatica PowerCenter. Default is Administrator.
Informatica Administrator Password	Enter the administrator password for accessing PowerCenter. The string is 8-30 characters long, with at least one special character, one number, one uppercase character, and one lowercase character. You cannot specify double quotes ("), ampersands (&), and dollar signs ($).
Confirm Password	Re-enter the password you specified for the Informatica Administrator Password parameter.
Encryption Key Phrase	Enter the base word for generating an encryption key for the Informatica domain. Ensure that the string is 8-20 characters long, with at least one uppercase letter, one lowercase letter, and one number, and without containing any spaces.
Informatica License Key	Required. If you have an existing PowerCenter license, specify the public URL to the S3 bucket where you have stored the license key file.

Click

On the

Options

page, you can optionally specify tags (key-value pairs) for resources in your stack. Or, you can go to

Advanced

, and set

Rollback on failure

to

No

to view the logs if there is a failure.

Click

In the

Review

section, you can review all the parameters you entered and confirm the template settings.

You can also check cost and billing details.

To deploy the stack, click

Create

.

Amazon AWS begins to create the stack. Amazon AWS displays the CloudFormation dashboard.

Monitor the status of the stack. When the status is

CREATE_COMPLETE

, the deployment is complete.

You can use the URL displayed on the

Resources

tab for the stack to view the created resources for the database and VM details. You can also view log info on the

Events

tab and parameters information on the

Parameters

tab.

Use the following URL syntax to connect to the Administrator tool:

http://<<PowerCenter Domain Node Public IP address>>:6008/administrator

For example,

http://52.53.54.55:6008/administrator

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