Installation Guide

Virtual Sensor installation
• Prerequisites........................................................................................................................................................................................................ 11
• Virtual Sensor installation using XMC and XMC Connect................................................................................................................14
• Virtual Sensor installation using vSphere Web Client.........................................................................................................................15
This chapter provides information about installing the ExtremeAnalytics Virtual Sensor.
Virtual Sensor can be installed using one of the following methods:
• Method 1 - XMC Connect: See the section ExtremeAnalytics Virtual Sensor Conguration in ExtremeAnalytics User Guide
• Method 2 - vSphere Web client: See the section Virtual Sensor installation using vSphere Web Client on page 15
When Virtual Sensor is installed, it is provisioned and added to the device list in XMC using built-in Enhanced Zero Touch Provisioning
(ZTP+), which is a method for devices to communicate with XMC. ZTP+ allows a device to obtain rmware and conguration updates
from XMC, and publish status, statistics and device events to XMC.
During installation, Virtual Sensor automatically starts the Linux process cloud-connector client. The cloud-connector client relies
on the Default VLAN 1 enabled DHCP client to discover a DHCP server.
After Virtual Sensor receives an IP address and a Domain Name from the DHCP server, it begins the DNS query to nd the built-in
Extreme Networks Management Appliance Fully-Qualied Domain Name (FQDN) extremecontrol@<domain-name> for Extreme
Management Center. <domain-name> is the domain assigned by the DHCP server.
The cloud-connector tries to resolve these names in an endless round-robin loop. When any of the names are resolved to an IP address,
Virtual Sensor attempts connection to that IP address.
After the Virtual Sensor installation is complete, Cloud Connector saves the conguration on the device and terminates.
Prerequisites
Before deploying Virtual Sensor, ensure that the following are available and
congured:
• Extreme Management Center (XMC) 8.4
– Congure SNMP and CLI credentials for Virtual Sensor in XMC. It is required to use SNMPv3 and the CLI credentials, and
cannot have a blank password. For more information, see the section Proles in ExtremeAnalytics User Guide.
• Hypervisor: VMware vSphere-based data center with vCenter managed ESXi
Virtual Sensor is packaged in the OVA le format (dened by VMware), and it must be deployed on a VMware ESXi hypervisor.
• vCenter privileges and permissions
Congure vCenter vSphere login with an administrative role with the following Global Permissions:
TABLE 2 vCenter Global Permissions
Privilege name Permissions
Distributed Switch
– VSPAN operation
All
Datastore
– Allocate space
– Browse datastore
All
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