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Version: 2.11.0 🚧

How to Install Superna Appliances on Nutanix AHV

Introduction​

This guide will take you through the steps necessary to install our appliances on your Nutanix cluster operating on the AHV hypervisor.

Superna supports deployment of our Core and Processing appliances on Nutanix AHV. Superna is “Nutanix Ready AHV” certified. For more information, please visit Nutanix’s Compatibility and Interoperability Matrix and enter “superna” in the “Type to Filter” search bar in the table.

How to deploy Eyeglass or ECA on Nutanix AHV​

  1. Obtain an image file (qcow2) from Superna's support portal.
  2. Log in to Nutanix Prism using your credentials.

Upload the Image​

  1. Navigate to the Compute & Storage button on the left of the screen.
  2. Under Compute & Storage, click on Images
  3. Click on the blue Add Image button on the top left.
  4. A new page will load, where you will be prompted to upload the file (+Add File button)
  5. Click Next.
  6. A window will appear where you will enter the description for the image, enter it and click Next.
  7. Finally click on Save (leave defaults as they are in the wizard)
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You can see the image being created and the file being uploaded by going to View All Tasks (on the upper right, the small blue button.).

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Do not refresh your screen during the upload.

Create the VM​

  1. Navigate to the Compute & Storage button on the left of the screen.
  2. Under Compute & Storage, click on VMs
  3. Click on Create VM
  4. Provide: Name, description, cluster (leave default), number of VMs (# of nodes required), and select the number of vCPUs, cores, and assign Memory GBs.
  5. Click on Next.
  6. Click on Attach Disk. On the dialog that appears, select Operation: Clone from image.
  7. Select the appropriate image to clone from (the qcow2 you've previously uploaded)
  8. Select Bus Type: IDE
  9. Click on Save.
  10. Attach another disk, which will be the blank data drive. (Click on Attach Disk again)
  11. Give it 80GB of capacity (this is the usual capacity set)
  12. Click on Save.
  13. Click on Attach to Subnet, leave the default settings untouched, and click on Save.
  14. Boot Config: Set to Legacy BIOS mode.
  15. Click Next, and when the Management screen opens, click Next again without changing the default options.
  16. Finally, click on Create VM (you may review the settings on this final screen before clicking)

Launch the VM​

Once the upload is complete:

  1. Navigate to the Compute & Storage button on the left of the screen.
  2. Under Compute & Storage, click on VMs
  3. On this screen you will find a list of VMs that have been successfully loaded onto the platform. Scroll (if necessary) to find the VM you have just created.
  4. Select the newly created VM by clicking on its name.
  5. A new screen will load, where you will find a button labeled "More" near the top options bar. Click on More, and under it, click on Power ON.
  6. Now you may click on Launch Console, once finished loading, log in with the default username: admin and password: 3y3gl4ss.
  7. Within the VM Console CLI, log in as the root user by using the following command: sudo su. Use the default username and password given in the previous step.
  8. Run the following command: tar xvf /opt/data/branding/ui/EYEGLASS.tar.gz -C /srv/www/htdocs/eyeglass --strip-components 1 tar xvf /opt/data/branding/ui/EYEGLASSwidgets.tar.gz -C /srv/www/htdocs/eyeglasswidgets--strip-components 1
  9. Now you may click on Launch Console, it will be active and loading.
  10. When the command console finishes loading it will ask for login details.
  11. Once you're logged in, you may start configuring as needed.

Next Steps​

You may now continue to configure your VM as you require.