Procedure

To deploy the Catalogic DPX Master Server, complete the following steps:

  1. In the vSphere Client Hosts and Clusters view or the VM and Templates view, right-click on a container (e.g. ESXi or Resource Pool) or click on the Actions menu and select Deploy OVF Template... from the context menu.

  2. Select Local file and click Choose Files to specify the location of the downloaded DPX-4.9.1.ova file and select it. Click Next.

  3. Enter a unique name for the virtual machine in the Virtual machine name field and select a target location for the virtual machine from the Select a location for the virtual machine list. Click Next.

  4. Identify and select the compute resource from the Select a compute resource list. Click Next.

  5. Review the template details presented on the Review details pane and click Next.

  6. Read the license agreement entirely and accept the End User License Agreement by selecting I accept all license agreements on the License agreements pane. Click Next.

  7. On the Select storage pane, choose the storage and disk format to store the virtual disks. Select from the datastores that are already configured on the destination host. The virtual machine configuration file and virtual disk files are stored on the datastore. Select a datastore that is large enough to accommodate the virtual machine and all its virtual disk files. To help optimize performance, keep the default option: Thick Provision Lazy Zeroed. Thin provisioning requires less disk space but might impact performance. Click Next.

  8. Select networks for the deployed virtual appliance to use. Several available networks on the VMware ESXi server may be available by clicking Destination Networks on the Select networks pane. Select a destination network that allows you to define the appropriate IP address allocation for the virtual machine deployment. Click Next.

  9. On the Customize template pane, enter the following information:

    • Enter a hostname for the machine in the Hostname field. The hostname should be a DNS resolvable name. If this is left blank, “localhost” is the default. Important: For the hostname, enter the fully qualified domain name (FQDN). The provided hostname must match the DNS record. Ensure that the settings provided will allow the Master Server to communicate with other nodes in the environment.

    • If not using DHCP, work with your network administrator to determine the network properties. Enter the network properties for the virtual machine in the respective fields: Network IP Address, Network Prefix, Default Gateway, DNS. The network prefix should be specified by a network administrator. The network prefix must be entered using Classless Inter-Domain Routing (CIDR) notation. If using DHCP, leave the fields blank which is the default setting.

    • Enter the two character keyboard layout for your language in the Keyboard Language field. The default setting is us. Additional choices include: uk, de, fr, zh, and pl. Click Next.

    • Enter the string for the timezone in the Timezone field for the Timezone Configuration. The default setting is America/New_York (US Eastern). Other examples include America/Chicago (US Central), America/Denver (US Mountain), America/Los_Angeles (US Pacific), Asia/Hong_Kong (Hong Kong), Asia/Kolkata (India), Asia/Shanghai (China - Beijing), Asia/Urumqi (China - Xinjiang), Europe/Berlin (Germany), Europe/London (UK), and Europe/Warsaw (Poland). Additional timezones can be found here: http://worldtimeapi.org/timezones.

    Click Next.

  10. On the Ready to complete pane review your template selections. Click Finish to exit the wizard and to start deployment of the OVF template.

  11. After the virtual appliance is deployed, power on your newly created virtual machine (VM). You can power on the VM from the vSphere Client.

Important. The virtual machine must remain powered on for the Master Server to be accessible.

  1. The IP address is required to log on to the Master Server. Find the IP address in vSphere Client by clicking your newly created VM and looking in the Summary tab. Record the IP address of the Master Server.

Important. It may take several minutes for to initialize completely.

  1. Enter the IP address or hostname of the Master Server in a web browser to access the virtual appliance. For default credentials, see User names and passwords for Catalogic Master Server.

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