Installation Guide

54 VRS Installation on Citrix XenServer 6.2
Introduction
Block 1
Installation
1. Re m ove s t o ck openvswitch
Note
:rpm -qa | grep openvswitch
Allrpmsmustberemoved:'yum remove'isrecommended.
2. Have ready the hp xen dVRS, which consists of the following rpms:
• hp-openvswitch-<version>
• hp-openvswitch-modules-xen-2.6.32.43-0.4.1.xs1.8.0.835.170778-<version>
3. Install in the following order
a. rpm -i HP-openvswitch-modules-xen-2.6.32.43-0.4.1.xs1.8.0.835.170778-
<version>
b. rpm -i HP-openvswitch-<version>
Note: If hp-openvswitch-<version> installation is tried before hp-openvswitch-
modules-xen-2.6.32.43-0.4.1.xs1.8.0.835.170778-<version>
, failure will
ensue, with the following error:
error: Failed dependencies:
openvswitch_mod.ko.0 is needed by HP-openvswitch-2.0
51.i386
Verification
1. Ensurethatallpackage shavebeeninstalled:
[root@ovs-2 images]# rpm -qa | grep openvswitch
hp-openvswitch-modules-xen-2.6.32.43-0.4.1.xs1.8.0.835.170778-
2.0-51
hp-openvswitch-2.0-51
2. Ensurethat/etc/sysconfig/openvswitchhascorrectPERSONALITYandPLATFORM:
[root@ovs-2 images]# cat /etc/sysconfig/openvswitch | grep
PERSONALITY
# PERSONALITY: vrs/vrs-g/cpe/none (default: vrs)
PERSONALITY=vrs
[root@ovs-2 images]# cat /etc/sysconfig/openvswitch | grep PLATFORM
# PLATFORM: kvm/xen/esx-i. Only apply when in VRS personality
PLATFORM=xen
3. VerifyHPManagedNetworkiscreated:
[root@acs-ovs-3 ~]# xe network-list name-label=hpManagedNetwork
uuid ( RO) : 817ece89-4835-980c-a48f-0bf02bc4241a
name-label ( RW): hpManagedNetwork
name-description ( RW): hpManagedNetwork
bridge ( RO): xapi0