Installation Guide

2 Deploy the Virtual Appliance
V2110 Deployment Requirements
V2110 Connectivity Requirements
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This section provides a requirements overview for the ExtremeCloud
™
Appliance Virtual Appliance V2110
deployment. It explains how to install the appliance on a VMware® vSphere™ server (ESXi™) and how to
run the initial configuration wizard.
V2110 Deployment Requirements
V2110 is packaged in the .OVA file format defined by VMware. It must be deployed on a VMware ESX or
ESXi host running vSphere. The minimum supported version of vSphere is 4.1 u1.
Note
You only need to install the “.ova” file when you first install the V2110. All subsequent
upgrades can be performed using the standard controller upgrade procedure to apply a
“.bge” file to V2110.
V2110 installation prerequisites:
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20 GB of RAM
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4 virtual CPUs (4 distinct physical cores or 2 cores with hyperthreading)
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25 GB of disk space
In addition, the Virtual Appliance is configured with one Ethernet interface for administration and two
data plane Ethernet interfaces for forwarding payload trac.
V2110 Connectivity Requirements
The appliance has one management interface (Admin) and two data plane interfaces (Port1, Port2). If all
three interfaces are used, connect them to separate virtual switches (vSwitches) in the ESXi host.
The data plane interfaces have additional requirements on the vSwitches to which they connect:
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The vSwitch must be configured to accept promiscuous mode connections.
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The vSwitch must be configured to accept any VLAN tag trac and forward it without changing or
removing the VLAN tags.
The best practice is to configure the vSwitches before installing the appliance.
See Configure vSwitches for the Virtual Appliance on page 26 for instructions on how to create and
configure vSwitches that can be used by V2110 data plane ports.
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