HP Insight Control Server Provisioning 7.3 Update 1 Installation Guide
Table Of Contents
- HP Insight Control Server Provisioning 7.3 Update 1 Installation Guide
- Contents
- 1 Introduction/overview
- 2 Requirements and networking considerations
- 3 Installing your Insight Control server provisioning appliance for the first time
- Overview of the first time set up steps
- Get the software for a first time install
- Install Insight Control server provisioning on VMware vSphere/ESXi hypervisor
- Install Insight Control server provisioning on Microsoft Hyper-V hypervisor
- Log in to the appliance and configure appliance networking
- Accessing your appliance from a browser for the first time
- Next steps
- 4 Updating from version 7.2.2 to 7.3.1
- 5 DHCP server setup
- 6 Setting up the Media Server
- Introduction to the Media Server
- Introduction to the Insight Control server provisioning Media Server setup utility
- Requirements for setting up your Media Server
- Procedure for using the Insight Control server provisioning Media Server setup utility
- Changes made to your web server by Insight Control server provisioning Media Server setup utility
- 7 Generating and uploading WinPE to the appliance
- 8 Recommended actions after initial setup
- 9 Support and other resources
- 10 Documentation feedback
- A Updating from version 7.2 or 7.2.1 to 7.2.2
- Best practices for a successful update to 7.2.2
- Get the 7.2.2 update software and prepare it for use
- Prerequisites for update from 7.2/7.2.1 to 7.2.2
- Instructions for updating from 7.2 or 7.2.1 to 7.2.2
- What you need to do after installing the 7.2.2 update
- Changing from single NIC to multi-NIC (optional)
- Instructions for recovering from a failed 7.2.2 update
- REST API call to upload the 7.2.2 update file
- Glossary
- Index
• 200 GB of disk space allocated for the VM plus another 16 GB of disk space to serve as
storage for the 16 GB of memory required.
IMPORTANT: HP strongly recommends using thick provisioning. If you use thin provisioning
and your VM host disk runs out of space, the appliance will most likely encounter errors and
terminate unexpectedly and may not recover. If this happens you will need to install a new
appliance and restore from backup.
• For information on security considerations and a list of ports that need to be open for Insight
Control server provisioning see the HP Insight Control Server Provisioning Administrator Guide
chapter on Security Considerations.
• Networking requirements: The IC server provisioning appliance template comes configured
with two network interfaces (NICs). You can decide if you want to configure the appliance to
have the Appliance IP and the Deployment IP on the same or different networks which
determines if you will need one or two network adapters on the host. See “Appliance
networking considerations” (page 10) for more information on single and multi-NIC modes.
Requirements for using the USB media or ZIP file software downloads
Due to the large size of files contained within the USB media and ZIP file software downloads,
some care is needed to use the media or download files and unzip the contents. There are different
considerations for Windows and Linux systems.
• USB Media:
The USB media is formatted using the NTFS file system. When the media is inserted into a
USB drive on a Windows system, most recent Windows systems should be able to recognize
the USB NTFS file system and access the contents within.
There is a much wider variation in support for NTFS file system on Linux systems. When the
media is inserted into a USB drive on a Linux system, some Linux systems will be able to mount
the media with a command such as:
# mount —t ntfs -o ro /dev/sdb1 /mnt
The device name may vary by Linux system. If you get an error message that the NTFS system
is not recognized, you will need to download and install NTFS support on your Linux system.
One recommended free tool to enable that is ntfs-3g from http://www.tuxera.com. The
mount command using ntfs-3g is, for example:
# mount.ntfs-3g -o ro /dev/sdb1 /mnt
• ZIP file download
For Windows systems, you can use the built-in Windows ZIP capability available through
Windows Explorer.
For Linux systems, a version of unzip supporting ZIP version 3.0 must be used.
DHCP considerations
Insight Control server provisioning requires a DHCP server to provide IP addresses to target servers
during the provisioning process. Insight Control server provisioning has a DHCP server internal to
the appliance you may use, or you can set up your own DHCP server external to the appliance.
See “DHCP server setup” (page 38) for information on deciding whether to use a DHCP server
internal or external to the appliance and instructions for how to set up an external DHCP for use
with the appliance.
Media Server considerations
The Media Server is separate from the Insight Control Server provisioning virtual appliance and
holds the deployment software. Because Insight Control server provisioning is hosted on a virtual
8 Requirements and networking considerations