addmi 04-va installation

© 2009 BMC Educational Services

Virtual Appliance Installation

© 2010 BMC Educational Services 2

Installing a production VA

Installing the VA for training or demo trials

How to obtain and install VMServer V2.0

Downloading the Demo VA

How to expand the zip file

How to setup VMServer to run a demo VA

Install a VA Outline


A few words on installing a Production VA


VMware support matrix

R – Recommended Platform S – Supported by BMC V – Supported by BMC only if VMware supported T – Will require conversion on deployment C – Community Support via Forum x – Not supported

Virtual Appliance

Community Edition

Small Production(< 500 OSI)

Large Production(> 500 OSI)

VMware vSphere 4 or later C R S T R S T

VMware ESXi v4 or later C R V T R V T

VMware VI (ESX) 3.0.2 or later C S T S T

VMware ESXi 3.5 or later C V T V T

VMware Server 2.0 or later C V x

VMware Player 2.x or later C x x

VMware Workstation 5.x or later C x x


VA Resources

Resources required for the VA

The lower bound is a minimum, the upper bound has sufficient headroom to ensure high performance

Sizing Classes

Resource POC Baseline Datacenter Consolidated Enterprise

CPUs 2 2 4 4-8

RAM (GB) 2 4 8 16-32

DB Disk (GB) no snapshot 50 100 200 200-660

DB Disk (GB) snapshot 50 200 500 660-1500

Proof of Concept Small test deployments of Atrium Discovery 150 OSIs

Baseline A typical baseline as offered by Atrium Discovery 500 OSIs

Datacenter A typical large scale deployment 2000 - 5000 OSIs

Consolidated Enterprise

Enterprise scale deployments, typically a Consolidation Appliance taking feeds from many Scanning Appliances

20000 - 40000 OSIs


VA Disks

BMC Atrium Discovery makes intensive use of disk resource Deploy using the highest IO disk speed resource

Low disk IO impacts performance and scanning rate Use the Virtual Appliance capability to have a second disk dedicated to

database files This allows the system to split the two most intense operations, writing

database files and maintain transaction log, across two separate disks to avoid contention

For more information see:http://www.tideway.com/confluence/display/73/

Configuring+the+Virtual+Appliance


VMware Tools & Time

After deployment of a VA the version of VMware Tools on the VA must be upgraded to the latest version

From the Options tab of the VMware Tools Control Panel, click the Update button.

Select Automatic VMware Tools Upgrade. Click Upgrade.

Consider the time zone and configure accordingly

Additionally NTP must be setup to ensure there is no clock skew


Installing a VA for training and trials


Obtain VMServer 2.0 (1)

http://www.vmware.com/freedownload/login.php?product=server20

Enter registration details and email address to receive the (essential) license activation codes



Click continue, after providing name and email address Will be asked for more details and most importantly about how many

license keys you require to install VMServer on Windows and/or Linux Choose at least one Windows License then click register



Click on the link to download VMServer 2 Download is ~600MB so it might take a while depending on your connection

Check your email for the activation link to access License key(s)

Check spam filter


VMServer Installation (1)

Double Click on the downloaded VMware-server Application file After a few minutes you will be prompted to continue


VMServer 2.0 Installation (2)

Click next, accept the license agreement and click next again



Click Next when asked the installation location



Important: Please make a note of the virtual machine storage path Change if needed

You may want to deselect “Allow virtual machines to start and stop automatically”

Click Next



Click next to accept the creation of the shortcuts



Click Install to initiate the installation



It may take several minutes before this window changes


VMServer 2.0 Installation Part 8

Enter Your User Name, Company and Serial Number



Click Finish Complete the installation by clicking on Yes to restart the machine


Training VA Location and Compression

The Atrium Discovery VA needed for training will be provided On a DVD or some other storage device Or download from the website

The file will be compressed to save space and help with transfer Use 7-zip to unpack both .zip and .tgz file types

A copy of 7-zip is included with training VA Or download a copy of 7-Zip

http://downloads.sourceforge.net/sevenzip/7z464.exe


Install 7-Zip

Click on Install Click Finish to complete installation


Expand the VA zip file

Right click on the downloaded VA zip file and click on 7-Zip and then on Extract files

Change the location that the zip file will be extracted to the virtual machine storage path as per the step in VMServer 2.0 Installation Part 4


Add VA to VMServer (1)

Click Yes to proceed and to ignore the site security message

Enter the same Login name and password to you used to log into the PC

Open VMware Server Console by clicking the desktop icon:



You will now see the VMware Infrastructure Web Access console



Click on “Add Virtual Machine to Inventory” in the Commands section on the right hand side

Click on “standard” in the Inventory section



Back in the inventory section, click on the VA icon and wait for the section to load on the right then click on the green triangle play button



If you receive the message below regarding available memory, choose Reduce Memory and click OK



You will see the IP address of the VA on the right hand side in the Status section


Further Resources

VMware Server 2.0 Documentation: http://www.vmware.com/support/pubs/server_pubs.html

Tideway Foundation

Version 7.2

Documentation

Title


Online Documentation: http://www.tideway.com/confluence/display/81/

Installing+a+BMC+Atrium+Discovery+Virtual+Appliance

Tideway Foundation

Version 7.2

Documentation

Title

Further Resources

addmi 04-va installation

Technology