Guideline for the installation of C-MOR Video Surveillance Virtual … · 2016. 12. 5. · VMware ESX Server. This manual applies to C-MOR version 4 with 64 bit operating system

Guideline for the installation of C-MOR Video Surveillance

Virtual Machine on VMware ESX Server

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This guideline illustrates the installation of the C-MOR Video Surveillance Virtual Machine on

VMware ESX Server. This manual applies to C-MOR version 4 with 64 bit operating system.

First download the C-MOR Virtual Machine Software package (ZIP or ISO) from www.c-mor.com.

Login to your VMware ESX Server:

http://www.c-mor.com/




Select Configuration in the vSphere Client:

Select “Storage” from the Hardware menu.




Select the datastore where you upload ISO files and browse it with the right mouse button.

Select the folder in the selected datastore where you want to upload the C-MOR ISO file:

Open it. In this example the folder is called “ISO”.




Click on the upload button and select the C-MOR ISO file in the next step:

The upload of the ISO file starts after selecting the file and clicking “open”:




Verify the successful upload:

Close the datastore browser and create a new virtual machine in the vSphere Client by right

clicking on the server and selecting “New Virtual Machine”:




The dialog for setting up a new virtual machine is starting:




Select a useful name, in example “C-MOR Video Surveillance”:

Select the datastore where to create the virtual machine:




Select the operating system “Other 2.6x Linux (64-bit):




Create one hard disk, for example with 100GB space total space for the C-MOR software and the

storage for video surveillance recordings:

Important! C-MOR virtual machine can handle a maximum disk size of 2TB! Do not select bigger

disk space. The installation will fail.

Also, the configured disk space can’t be extended later. Make sure you set a good value to avoid

starting over with the installation!




Select “Edit the virtual machine settings before completion” before you hit “Continue”. Some

settings have to be made prior the installation self-starts:

Change the memory (RAM) up to 1GB for a C-MOR3 or C-MOR6, 9, or 2GB for a C-MOR15 virtual

machine:




Also raise the number of CPUs to 2 CPUs for a C-MOR with up to 6 cameras, and 4 for a C-MOR

with more cameras. This can be optimized later if performance issues occur:

Select the uploaded ISO file as CDROM/DVD. Make sure the check mark “Connect at power on” is

set. With this setting the virtual machine which was created boots from this CDROM ISO file.




Click ok, all settings are made. You get back to the vSphere Client. Start the new virtual machine

now (power it on) by clicking with the right mouse button on the new VM:




Click on the console icon to see the boot progress.




Hit Enter to start the installation process.

Select now between an “Automatically” or an “Interactively” restore. The automatic installation does

not require much more information. Therefor it calculates the disk space split up self. That has the

disadvantage that some disk space is wasted. The wasted space is approximately 2GB in case of

a 100GB virtual disk. The interactive installation asks more information, but no space is wasted. In

this document we decide to do a more accurate installation and select “Interactively”.




Select the source type, “CD-R disks” since we have an ISO file which is a CDROM image:

On the next screen the disk partitioning menu shows up. Write down the sizes and add it up.




Set the /boot always to 150MB, swap always to 2048MB and use the rest for “/”, the root partition.

In this example we free up 2120MB. We add this free space to the partition “/”.

Select ok to get to the next screen.




In case of wrong sizing (only over-allocation) the following error message may show in the screen.

Correct the root partition size in this case.

If all settings are correct the installation process waits for the installation confirmation:




Confirm once more that the virtual new disk can be formatted:

And confirm to install the software now:




The installation process self runs now:

After the installation of the software the boot loader needs to be initialized:




Important now! Do not re-generate the Grub-Loader (boot software of C-MOR).

You have to start over if this is answered with “yes”!

Also hit “No” on the next screen:




And once more “No” since those types of partitions are not used:

Finally type “exit” and hit enter to startup the freshly installed C-MOR virtual machine.




In the next screen C-MOR shows the start screen of the VGA console. It automatically boots twice

now to gather the last system information for the installation.

After the initial reboot the C-MOR virtual machine is ready:




Now you can change the IP address for your network by selecting the menu 2. The default

password is “admin”. This will be asked first prior doing system settings.

Simply open your web browser now and open the C-MOR web. The default address is http://192.168.1.2 with the username “admin” and the password “admin”:

http://192.168.1.2/




The following disclaimer shows up:




After accepting the disclaimer the C-MOR Start Screen shows up.

Now call the page “System Administration” to license C-MOR and get the full benefit with all

features, e. g. using 3 IP cameras. Click on the function “License Installation”. This point only exists

if C-MOR is not licensed yet.




Enter the license data. Enter the data for a proxy server if it’s necessary to access the Internet.

Please ask your network administrator in doubt.




The next screen is displayed after the license installation. This will show up always, if the license

has been installed successfully or not.

Please click on “System Administration” to verify the successful installation of the license. A

successful license installation is indicated by the no longer existing link to the install license page:




Most reasons the license installation fail are missing or incorrect license access data. You can

order a license from http://www.c-mor.com. Other reasons are no free access to the Internet or in-

correct DNS server settings. Please make sure these settings are correct prior looking up for other

reasons.

C-MOR is now ready.

Important! Please refer to the “Guideline for camera license installation” if you need to activate

additional cameras. This is required if you have more than 3 cameras, in example if you want to

use a C-MOR6.

http://www.c-mor.com/

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Guideline for the installation of C-MOR Video Surveillance Virtual … · 2016. 12. 5. · VMware ESX Server. This manual applies to C-MOR version 4 with 64 bit operating system