APM-Private Cloud - VMware Setup
APM-Private Cloud is a virtual machine (VM) image that can be deployed on customer-supplied hardware running VMware vSphere 5.5, 6.0, or 6.5.
Prerequisites
The APM-Private Cloud VMware image requires a VMware vSphere Hypervisor host capable of hosting a guest machine with the following minimum hardware requirements.
Component | Minimum requirements |
---|---|
vCPUs | 4 |
Memory | 16 GB |
Hard Disk 1 (pca-base) | 40 GB (SSD performance required) |
Hard Disk 2 (pca-data) | 750 GB (SSD performance required) |
Hard Disk 3 (pca-backup) | 2000 GB |
Hard Disk 4 (pca-flow-data) | 326 GB (SSD performance required) |
Network Adapter | 1 x 1 GigE |
Video Card | 4 MB |
The compute resources should be adjusted based on planned usage:
Trial | up to 250 monitoring points | up to 1000 monitoring points | |
---|---|---|---|
vCPUs | 4 | 4 | 16 |
Memory (GB) | 8 | 16 | 64 |
Storage resources can be thin-provisioned. Actual storage usage may vary depending on the number of monitored paths and actual performance of monitored networks and applications.
Installing APM-Private Cloud on VMware
To install APM-Private Cloud on VMware vSphere:
- Contact AppNeta Support for a link to an APM-Private Cloud VMware image.
- Download the image.
- Log into vSphere Client.
- Select the inventory object you want to deploy APM-Private Cloud on.
- Click Actions > Deploy OVF Template….
- Follow the instructions to deploy the image you downloaded.
- On the Select storage step, in the Select virtual disk format field, you can select Thin provision to save disk space.
- Follow the instructions to deploy the image you downloaded.
- When the image deployment is complete, select the APM-Private Cloud VM and click Actions > Power > Power On.
- Click Actions > Open Console.
- Wait for the system to initialize. The setup screen will appear in the console.
- Complete the initial setup. You will be prompted for the following information:
- First Name - First name of the APM-Private Cloud administrator.
- Last Name - Last name of the APM-Private Cloud administrator.
- Email - Email address of the APM-Private Cloud administrator. This is the user ID for the account.
- Organization Name - Name of the organization.
- Password - Administrator account password.
- Confirm Password - Administrator account password.
- Hostname - Hostname for the VM (e.g., my-vpca).
- Domain Name - Domain name the VM will exist within (e.g., mydomain.org).
- Address Source, DHCP - Indicates that the network configuration will be provided by DHCP.
- Address Source, Static - Indicates that the network configuration will be specified explicitly.
- IPv4 Address - IPv4 address of the VM (e.g., 192.168.1.100).
- NetMask - Netmask for the VM (dotted-decimal notation) (e.g., 255.255.255.0).
- Gateway - IPv4 address of the router providing Internet access (e.g., 192.168.1.254).
- Preferred DNS - IPv4 address of the primary DNS server (e.g., 192.168.1.201).
- Additional DNS - IPv4 address of the secondary DNS server (e.g., 192.168.1.202).
- Preferred NTP Servers - Hostname and domain name of the preferred NTP server (e.g., pool.ntp.org).
- Additional NTP Servers - Comma-separated list of hostnames and domain names (or IP addresses) of additional NTP servers that may be used. (Optional)
- Select Finish and press Enter to complete the setup.
- Wait for the configuration changes to be completed.
- Record the IP address and login URL of the new APM-Private Cloud VM.
- From a browser, log into your APM-Private Cloud.
- Use the IP address or login URL provided at the end of the initial setup procedure (use https://).
- For example:
https://192.168.1.100
orhttps://my-vpca.mydomain.org/pvc/login.html
- For example:
- Use the email address and password you provided in the setup procedure as login credentials.
- Use the IP address or login URL provided at the end of the initial setup procedure (use https://).
- Provide AppNeta Support access to the system to install licenses. See APM-Private Cloud Maintenance.
- Contact AppNeta Support to install your licenses.
- Go to APM-Private Cloud Configuration to configure APM-Private Cloud services.