HP VAN SDN Controller Installation Guide

1. If an older HP VAN SDN Cntroller version is installed on your system, uninstall it. See
Uninstalling the controller and dependencies.
2. Ensure that your system has internet access, and is running the following software:
• Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 64-bit Server (Linux 3.2 kernel)
NOTE: The Ubuntu Linux OS can run on physical hardware or as a virtual machine
(VM). When run as a virtual machine, the following hypervisors are supported:
◦ KVM Version 2.4.5–1 and greater
◦ ESXi Versions 5.0.0, 5.0.1, and greater
• One of the browser versions listed in Table 1.
Table 1 Supported browser versions
Firefox 21
Safari
5.1.7(7534.57.2)
Google-Chrome
30.0.1599.101m
(Recommended)OS Version
XXXUbuntu 12.04
XXXWindows Server 2008 R2
Enterprise
XXXWindows 7, 8 and Windows
Vista
• Patch 25 of the Java 7 JRE
NOTE: Early versions of Java 7 introduced a defect in the handling of SSL
connections. This results in a random SSL alert handshake exception in HTTPS connections
and requests to the HP VAN SDN Controller or any of its applications. This issue was
corrected in patch 25 of Java 7. However, this problem was reintroduced in patch 40
of Java 7 and, therefore, you should not use patch 40 of Java 7 with the controller. To
determine the version of Java running in your Ubuntu system, use the java -version
command.
Supported environments and topologies 5