Installation Guide

• A /CloudSystem/images directory is created on the management hypervisor and the
qcow2 images and checksums are moved to this directory. The /CloudSystem/images
directory should be owned by root and should have permissions set to 755. This setting allows
write access only to the root user for the files owned by root.
• 128 GB of memory is available on the management hypervisor for image storage
See HP CloudSystem installation prerequisites (page 11).
• The csstart folder and the three csstart-XXX.bat files are moved to the management hypervisor.
See Prepare for the installation (page 21).
• The network ifcfg files are created in the management hypervisor
etc/sysconfig/network-scripts directory.
See Configure the network infrastructure on the KVM management hypervisor (page 36).
Procedure 9 Configuring the Foundation base appliance on KVM
1. Gather the following information, which you will enter later in the csstart setup assistant.
• Foundation base appliance host name and IP address, if using static IP
• Glance disk size
• Foundation base appliance new secure password
• Data Center Management subnet mask
• Gateway address (jump box on the management network)
• Preferred DNS server IP address
• Management hypervisor host name, user name and password
• Name of the Data Center Management Network bridge
• Name of the Cloud Management Network bridge
• Name of the Cloud Data Trunk bridge
• Name of the External Network bridge
2. Log in to the management hypervisor.
See Important CloudSystem configuration information (page 41).
3. Set permissions to run csstart:
chmod 700 csstart
4. Add a hole in the firewall for port 5000 on the Linux system:
iptables -I INPUT 3 -p tcp -m state --state NEW -m tcp --dport 5000 -j ACCEPT
5. Launch the csstart-XXX.bat file with the preferred security checks.
See Selecting hypervisor security level for CloudSystem installation (page 40).
6. Open a supported browser and type http://IP_address_of_the_KVM
management_host:5000
7. Follow the prompts in the csstart setup assistant, using the information you gathered in step
one.
See Important CloudSystem configuration information (page 41).
8. When the installation completes, log in to the management hypervisor and verify that the
Foundation base appliance was created:
virsh list –all
The SDN appliance and network node appliances are created after entering Cloud Network
settings in the CloudSystem Console.
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