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Quick Start Guide

GMSKVM

Hypervisor

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Before You Begin

Comply with the GMS Host System Requirements [PN 200476-001]

Download the QCOW2 image file for the GMS:

- For a free trial, go to the Silver Peak Marketplace.

- If you’ve purchased the product, then log in at the Silver Peak Support portal.

Identify the IP address for the KVM server

Obtain a GMS activation license key

SUMMARY OF TASKS

1 Create and configure the virtual machine

2 Configure the virtual GMS server

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TO BEGIN ... Launch Virtual Machine Manager from the Linux desktop, and connect to the target KVM server.

1 Create and configure the virtual machine

Before this point, you’ll have downloaded the QCOW2 image file from Silver Peak’s Support portal and saved it to your KVM host’s root directory.

a. In the toolbar, click New.

The New VM window opens to the first step.

b. In the Name field, enter GMS (or any name you choose) and select Import existing disk image.

Click Forward.

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c. Browse to the downloaded image file.

Accept the default, Generic, for the OS type and Version.

d. Click Forward. The Choose Memory and CPU settings window appears.

e. Refer to the GMS Host System Requirements document and, based on the license that you’ve purchased, enter the appropriate values for Memory (RAM) and CPUs.

In this example, we’ve used the Recommended values for the GMS-10 and GMS-25 models, converting from Gigabytes to Megabytes.

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f. Click Forward. In the window that appears, review the summary of the entries you’ve made, and select Customize configuration before install.

Click Finish. The GMS Virtual Machine window appears.

g. In the left pane, select Disk, and on the right, click Advanced Options to expand it.

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h. Select the following:

Disk bus: Virtio

Storage format: qcow2

Click Apply. In the left pane, Disk 1 changes to Virtio Disk 1.

i. Click Begin Installation.

j. A console window opens, and the GMS virtual machine finishes booting up.

After boot up, you need to determine the mgmt0 IP address for the virtual GMS server so you can access and configure the GMS server.

• If you’re using DHCP, the virtual appliance IP address displays after the login, immediately above the prompt.

Or, you could also enter, show ip. Either method works.

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• If you’re not using DHCP, then you must configure the static IP address and default gateway.

If your environment is not configured for DHCP, then you’ll need to run the following script and assign your own variables. Use admin for both the username and the password.

SCRIPT for non-DHCP environment

Please confirm (y/n)? y

gmsserver login: admin

gms@demo-gms’s password: admin

-bash-2.05b$

-bash-2.05b$ cd gms

-bash-2.05b$ ipsetup.sh

Fri May 20 14:41:21 PDT 2011 Warning: Using ...

====Start at Fri May 20 14:41:22 PDT 2011[For the following prompts, enter values that are specific to your environment. For example, here we’ll choose to assign an IP address of 10.0.40.61 to mgmt0.]

Enter IP address: 10.0.40.61

Enter mask (e.g. 255.255.252.0): 255.255.255.0

Enter default gateway: 10.0.40.1

Enter hostname: selab2-gms

IP = 10.0.40.61

Mask = 255.255.255.0

Gateway = 10.0.40.1

Host = selab2-gms

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2 Configure the virtual GMS server

With the GMS initial configuration wizard, you can configure the following:

• GMS Name, Address, and Password

• Date/Time, GMS License

• [Optional] Email settings and recipients

• [Optional] Adding appliances

• [Optional] Configuring GMS backup

Be aware that it may take up to two minutes for your PC to get an IP address and open the initial configuration page.

a. Open any browser and enter the mgmt0 IP address. The opening page appears.

b. Enter the default username and password: admin / admin. The first page of the Getting Started Wizard appears.

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c. Complete the wizard. It may take up to 30 seconds for the virtual appliance to configure.

The GMS dashboard appears.

You’re now ready to deploy, manage, and monitor your physical and virtual Silver Peak appliances.

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