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1. Obtain dynamic licenses and install them on the Grid Master, as described in Obtaining Dynamic Licenses. You can also use a temporary license to spin up a Grid Master VM.

2. Create an offline Grid member or HA pair, as described in Adding a Single Member or Adding an HA Member, see Adding Grid Members.

3. Pre-provision the offline Grid member you just created, as described in Configuring Pre-Provisioned Members, see Pre-Provisioning NIOS and vNIOS Appliances. Note that there are a few guidelines that you might want to review before pre-provisioning your Grid member. For more information, see Guidelines for Pre-provisioning Offline Grid Members.

   Note that you must include the Grid and vNIOS provisional licenses for pre-provisioned vNIOS members in order to join them to the Grid.

4. Generate a token for the Grid member, as described in Generating Tokens for Grid Members below.

   Note for HA pairs, the appliance generates two tokens—one for each node of the HA pair.

5. Use cloud API calls to add network views, networks, or zones and then delegate the objects to the offline Grid member. For information about sample cloud API requests, see Sample Cloud API Requests for Elastic Scaling.

6. Use API requests to join the Grid member to the Grid. For sample API requests, see Sample Cloud API Requests. If for any reasons the automated process of Elastic Scaling fails or if you are unable to send API calls, you can use CLI commands to join the Grid member to the Grid as a workaround. For more information, see Using CLI Commands to Join Grid Members below.

7. Verify the Grid member has successfully joined the Grid, as described in Monitoring the ApplianceViewingMonitoring the ApplianceStatus.

8. Verify the dynamic licenses have been allocated correctly by viewing the license usage, as described in Managing Licenses.

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