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Set Up Your VMware Virtual Machine for a Single On-premises Server

Follow these steps to setup and configure your VM on a single server in an on-premises deployment:

  1. Verify that your system meets the VM requirements.

    Resource Minimum Requirements
    ProcessorEight (8) virtual CPUs
    Memory64 GB RAM
    Local disk storage256 GB SSD with minimum disk IOPS of 1000 for a standard 4kb block size
    (Note: This must be an SSD; use of other storage options can lead to system instability and are not supported.)
    Network interface speed 1 Gb NIC
    HypervisorVMware ESXi™ 6.5 or later (OVA image) for servers running Cumulus Linux, CentOS, Ubuntu, and RedHat operating systems

  2. Confirm that the needed ports are open for communications.

    You must open the following ports on your NetQ on-premises server:
    Port or Protocol Number Protocol Component Access
    4 IP Protocol Calico networking (IP-in-IP Protocol)
    22 TCP SSH
    80 TCP Nginx
    179 TCP Calico networking (BGP)
    443 TCP NetQ UI
    2379 TCP etcd datastore
    4789 UDP Calico networking (VxLAN)
    5000 TCP Docker registry
    6443 TCP kube-apiserver
    30001 TCP DPU communication
    31980 TCP NetQ Agent communication
    31982 TCP NetQ Agent SSL communication
    32708 TCP API Gateway

  3. Download the NetQ Platform image.

    1. On the MyMellanox Downloads page, select NetQ from the Software -> Cumulus Software list.
    2. Click 3.1 from the Version list, and then select 3.1.0 from the submenu.
    3. Select VMware from the HyperVisor/Platform list.

    4. Scroll down to view the image, and click Download. This downloads the NetQ-3.1.0.tgz installation package.

  4. Setup and configure your VM.

    VMware Example Configuration This example shows the VM setup process using an OVA file with VMware ESXi.

    1. Enter the address of the hardware in your browser.

    2. Log in to VMware using credentials with root access.

    3. Click Storage in the Navigator to verify you have an SSD installed.

    4. Click Create/Register VM at the top of the right pane.

    5. Select Deploy a virtual machine from an OVF or OVA file, and click Next.

    6. Provide a name for the VM, for example NetQ.

      Tip: Make note of the name used during install as this is needed in a later step.

    7. Drag and drop the NetQ Platform image file you downloaded in Step 1 above.

    8. Click Next.

    9. Select the storage type and data store for the image to use, then click Next. In this example, only one is available.

    10. Accept the default deployment options or modify them according to your network needs. Click Next when you are finished.

    11. Review the configuration summary. Click Back to change any of the settings, or click Finish to continue with the creation of the VM.

      The progress of the request is shown in the Recent Tasks window at the bottom of the application. This may take some time, so continue with your other work until the upload finishes.

    12. Once completed, view the full details of the VM and hardware.

  5. Verify the platform is ready for installation. Fix any errors indicated before installing the NetQ software.

    cumulus@hostname:~$ sudo opta-check

  6. Change the hostname for the VM from the default value.

    The default hostname for the NetQ Virtual Machines is ubuntu. Change the hostname to fit your naming conventions while meeting Internet and Kubernetes naming standards.

    Kubernetes requires that hostnames are composed of a sequence of labels concatenated with dots. For example, “en.wikipedia.org” is a hostname. Each label must be from 1 to 63 characters long. The entire hostname, including the delimiting dots, has a maximum of 253 ASCII characters.

    The Internet standards (RFCs) for protocols specify that labels may contain only the ASCII letters a through z (in lower case), the digits 0 through 9, and the hyphen-minus character ('-').

    Use the following command:

    cumulus@hostname:~$ sudo hostnamectl set-hostname NEW_HOSTNAME

    Add the same NEW_HOSTNAME value to /etc/hosts on your VM for the localhost entry. Example:

    127.0.0.1 localhost NEW_HOSTNAME

  7. Run the Bootstrap CLI. Be sure to replace the eth0 interface used in this example with the interface on the server used to listen for NetQ Agents.

    cumulus@:~$ netq bootstrap master interface eth0 tarball /mnt/installables/netq-bootstrap-3.1.0.tgz

    Allow about five to ten minutes for this to complete, and only then continue to the next step.

    If this step fails for any reason, you can run netq bootstrap reset [purge-db|keep-db] and then try again.

    If you have changed the IP address or hostname of the NetQ On-premises VM after this step, you need to re-register this address with NetQ as follows:

    Reset the VM, indicating whether you want to purge any NetQ DB data or keep it.

    cumulus@hostname:~$ netq bootstrap reset [purge-db|keep-db]

    Re-run the Bootstrap CLI. This example uses interface eth0. Replace this with your updated IP address, hostname or interface using the interface or ip-addr option.

    cumulus@:~$ netq bootstrap master interface eth0 tarball /mnt/installables/netq-bootstrap-3.1.0.tgz

The final step is to install and activate the Cumulus NetQ software. You can do this using the Admin UI or the CLI.

Click the installation and activation method you want to use to complete installation:

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