Chapter 4: Installing and Configuring a DSM
Deploying a DSM AWS image
DSM Installation and Configuration Guide
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Enabling Ping
You need to enable ping in order for legacy Vormetric products to be able to register to the DSM. You can enable ping
in the Azure CLI.
az network nsg rule create -g <
RES_GRP
> -n icmp-rule --nsg-name <
NSG_NAME
> --priority 4096 --
source-address-prefixes <
AGENT_IP_ADD
> --destination-address-prefixes <
DSM_IP
> --source-port-
ranges "*" --destination-port-ranges "*" --direction Inbound --access Allow --protocol "*" --
description "Allow ping"
Configuring an HA Cluster
See
"Configuring HA for V6x00 and Virtual Appliances" on page 135
for procedures to configure high availability.
Deploying a DSM AWS image
This section describes how to install the DSM AMI (Amazon Machine Image) on the Amazon Virtual Private Cloud
(VPC) for AWS (Amazon Web Service) Cloud. Refer to Amazon’s documentation for more information on VPC.
Contact Thales Support to obtain the image.
Note
DSM does not support Amazon EBS (Elastic Block Store) encryption in AWS. The DSM storage is
already encrypted. Adding EBS encryption would result in double encryption, which is not feasible.
Requirements
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Amazon Web Services (AWS) account, with a VPC and subnet
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DSM AMI template
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Knowledge of the following:
o
Creating AWS instances
o
Command line interface of your host operating system
o
How to open TCP, UDP and ICMP port connections on your protected hosts
o
Network and storage configuration basics
Note
For upgrades and fresh installations of DSM 6.2.0, if you are using HA, you must open port 5432 in your
firewall to allow communication between DSM HA nodes. For Azure and AWS platforms, you will need to
add this port to your security groups. You can now close port 50000 as it is no longer used.
Installing DSM
The DSM AMI is visible on the EC2 Dashboard under Images > AMIs.
1. Select the DSM AMI and click
Launch
at the top of the page, or right-click the AMI file and select
Launch
from
the pull-down menu.
2. Select the instance type and click
Next
.
If you plan to use the DSM in a production environment, the minimum requirements are:
o
2 virtual CPUs
o
8GB RAM