The following sections provide instructions on how to manually install HCP on a virtual machine (VM) or an existing cluster. You can perform this manual installation on any cluster if it meets the prerequisites listed next. Installation on a VM is not recommended for production deployment but rather for development and testing environments.

	Note
	Prior to starting this installation, you must set up Elasticsearch. For information on setting up Elasticsearch, see Elasticsearch documentation.

Manually installing HCP requires the following major steps: