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title: "Prerequisites"
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<span style="color: #000000">Before deploying vNIOS for GCP, ensure that you have completed the following:</span>

- <span style="color: #000000">Set up a GCP account and create a project, if none already exists.</span>
- <span style="color: #000000">If you want to join the vNIOS for GCP instance to the on-prem Grid, Configure an on-premise Infoblox Grid or Grid Master. For more information, refer to the </span>*<span style="color: #000000">Infoblox NIOS Documentation</span>*<span style="color: #000000">.</span>
- <span style="color: #000000">Install the GCP CLI utility to perform CLI based operations. For more information, see </span>[*<span style="color: #000000">https://cloud.google.com/sdk/gcloud/</span>*](https://cloud.google.com/sdk/gcloud/)<span style="color: #000000">.</span>
- <span style="color: #000000">To deploy a single network interface instance in a shared VPC network on GCP, ensure that the VPC of your host project is shared with the service projects.</span>

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