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  1. Download the server OVA file and launch it. For details of how to deploy an OVA in VMware, see OVA deployment for distributed scalable

  2. Enter the standard parameters for the API UI server, which are as follows:

    1. Friendly hostname, e.g. server-ova, which must be a valid Linux hostname

    2. Management interface IPv4 Address, e.g. 10.60.10.100, which should be a static network configuration

    3. Management interface IPv4 Netmask, e.g. 255.255.255.0

    4. Default Gateway, e.g. 10.60.10.1

    5. Space separated DNS Server list, e.g. 10.60.10.1

    6. Space separated NTP Server list, e.g. 10.60.10.1, which is required for features that depend on clock synchronization

  3. Enter the API/UI server parameters

    1. Abiquo API server FQDN, e.g. serverova.lab.abiquo.com

      1. This FQDN must be resolvable from customer premises for SSL and the Appliance manager to work properly

    2. Remote Services IP, e.g. 10.60.10.110

    3. Watchtower IP, e.g. 10.60.10.102

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Services datanode

We will deploy a single services datanode server to form a cluster of one node. Later, you can easily deploy more nodes and add them to the cluster.

  1. Download the services datanode OVA file and launch it.

  2. Enter the standard parameters for the services datanode server. The description of the parameters is the same as above

    1. Friendly hostname, e.g. servicesova, enter a valid Linux hostname

    2. Management interface IPv4 Address, e.g. 10.60.10.185, which should be a static network configuration

  3. Enter the services datanode server parameters

    1. Services cluster IPs, e.g. 10.60.10.185, which is the IP of this server because the cluster will only have one node

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Post install steps

DatanodeServices datanode

  1. Log in to the services datanode server as an administrator

  2. Configure the Galera cluster with the following command

    Code Block
    galera_new_cluster
  3. Edit the RabbitMQ environment configuration file at /etc/rabbitmq/rabbitmq-env.conf

  4. Set the nodename that corresponds to the server, such as rabbit@services1

  5. Restart the RabbitMQ service

    Code Block
    systemctl restart rabbitmq-server.service
  6. Then run the following command

    Code Block
    /usr/local/abiquo/setup build_cluster

    Note that this command will output the default user and password of the database, so for a test system behind a firewall, you can use that in the next step.

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  1. Log in to the API/UI server as an administrator

  2. To use the separate database on the datanode server, edit the tomcat configuration at /opt/abiquo/tomcat/conf/Catalina/localhost/api.xml

    1. Change the DB endpoint from localhost to the IP address of the services datanode server, where your Galera database cluster is running .
      Remove this line:

      Code Block
      driverClassName="com.mysql.jdbc.Driver" url="jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/kinton?autoReconnect=true&useUnicode=true&characterEncoding=UTF-8"/>

      Add this line and replace {DATANODE_IP_ADDRESS} with the IP address of your datanode server:

      Code Block
      driverClassName="com.mysql.jdbc.Driver" url="jdbc:mysql://{SERVICES_DATANODE_IP_ADDRESS}:3306/kinton?autoReconnect=true&useUnicode=true&characterEncoding=UTF-8"/>
    2. Change the user and password. If you need more information, please contact Abiquo Support

  3. Edit the abiquo.properties file at /opt/abiquo/config/abiquo.properties:.Set

    1. Change the IP address of the services datanode and add the

    ports
    1. port of the

    RabbitMQ and
    1. Redis

    instances
    1. instance, and the FQDN of the API. Also deactivate monitoring until you deploy the monitoring node.

      Code Block
      abiquo.rabbitmq.addresses = {SERVICES_DATANODE_IP_ADDRESS}
    :5672
    1. 
      abiquo.redis.host = {SERVICES_DATANODE_IP_ADDRESS}
      
      abiquo.redis.port = 6379
      
      abiquo.monitoring.enabled=false
      abiquo.server.api.location = https://{API_FQDN}/api
    abiquo.monitoring.enabled=false
    1. Save the properties file and restart the abiquo-tomcat server

      Code Block
    servicectl
    1. systemctl restart abiquo-tomcat.service
    restart
  4. To check when the Abiquo server has started you can follow the end of the log with the following command until the API has started and connected to the services.

    Code Block
    tail -f /opt/abiquo/tomcat/logs/catalina.out

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