OVA deployment

Distributed HA cluster environment

• Server

• Datanode services (database and internal services) x 3

• Remote services

• V2V

• Monitoring server x 3

These instructions are for a distributed HA cluster environment with 3 x separate services datanode.

Download the server, datanode, remoteservices, v2v and monitoring Abiquo appliances and follow the steps below:

1. Open the vCenter vSphere web client

2. Go to Host and clusters section in the vSphere web client side panel

3. Go to Actions and select Deploy OVF template

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4. Select Local file and choose the server OVA downloaded in step 1. Click Next

5. The vSphere client will display the OVA details. Click Next

6. Accept the EULA and click Next

7. Edit the deployed VM name and choose where you want to deploy it. After this, click Next

8. Select which cluster or host will be used for deploy and click Next

9. Choose the datastore for the deployed VM and click Next

10. Select the network destination for the VM management NIC and click Next

11. Enter the template details depending on the OVA you are deploying. For more details, see the parameters table in the documentation for the module. When configured, click Next

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    Server OVA parameters

12. Review the deployment configuration details. If they are OK, you can select the Power on after deployment checkbox. If you need to add extra NICs and HDDs to the VM before deployment, do not select the checkbox. Click Finish

     

13. Repeat the steps 1-12 for the OVA files for 3 x datanodes, remote services, V2V, and 3 x monitoring, and enter the details for every OVA. For the RabbitMQ IP, set the datanode IP address: