Chapter 4: Installing and Configuring a DSM
Configuring a Virtual Appliance
DSM Installation and Configuration Guide
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2. Click
File > Deploy OVF template
.
3. Click
Browse
and locate the OVA file. Select the file and click
Next
. The
OVF Template Details
page appears.
The file name format for the OVA file is
Vormetric DSM - Virtual Appliance<version>.OVA
4. Verify the details on the OVF Template page, then click
Next
. The
Name and Location
page opens.
5. Type in a name for the Virtual Appliance, then click
Next
. The
Storage
page opens.
6. Select a destination for the Virtual Appliance, then click
Next
. The
Disk Format
page opens.
7. Select the type of provisioning based on the storage characteristics for your system. The options are:
o
Thick Provisioned Lazy Zeroed–creates the VM and allocates all the blocks for the VM but doesn’t zero them.
o
Thick Provisioned Eager Zeroed–creates the VM, allocates and zeros all the blocks.
o
Thin Provision–creates the VM with just the header information, but it does not allocate or zero blocks.
8. Select
Thin Provision
and click
Next
. The
Ready to Complete
page displays. Select the
Power on after
deployment
check box, to power on the virtual DSM after deploying the template.
9. Click
Finish
to deploy the Virtual Appliance. This takes a few minutes.
10. At the message
Completed Successfully
, click
Close
. The main screen of the vSphere Client appears.
11. If you haven’t chosen to power on the virtual DSM (see step 7 above) after deploying the template, then in the
left pane, select the Virtual Appliance you just created, and click the green Power On icon in the tool bar, or right-
click the VM and select
Power > Power On
.
Note
It takes about a half hour to provision the VM and build the DSM.
12. To watch the output as the installation progresses, click the
Console
tab and click inside the console window.
The DSM
eth0
interface is DHCP enabled by default. For DHCP to work properly you must have a DHCP
Server configured to ensure that the DSM gets the correct IP address and other configuration information.
However, you will still need to configure the hostname and an NTP server or time zone for the virtual appliance
see the following sections;
"Virtual Appliance Configuration" on the facing page
and
Configuration" on the facing page
for a detailed description of the procedures.
If you want to use static IP addressing for the virtual DSM, see
"Configuring DSM using Static IP Addressing" on
.
Disk Re-encryption for DSM Fastboot Image
1. Once the virtual DSM has been created from the fastboot OVA template, you will be prompted to log into the
virtual appliance. As this is the first log in, use the default log in credentials:
Login: cliadmin
Password: cliadmin123
2. You will be prompted to re-encrypt the root disk container.
This is a fast-boot image suitable for quick evaluation of DSM. It is recommended to re-
encrypt the disk for production systems. The disk re-encryption will take approximately
15 to 25 minutes. Do NOT power off or shut down the session manually during this
process. If you choose to skip this step now, you can run ‘maintenance config load
default’ later to re-encrypt the root disk. Note, however, that "config load default"
will destroy all data so you will need to take a backup first if you wish to keep it.
Do you want to reencrypt now? (yes|no)
