Specifications

EMC CIS Series 1 Pod Installation and Configuration Guide

5. Select the New Pod ID. It is advised to keep the pods in numerical order. If the

pod IDs are not in numerical order, they will not show up in the scheduler in

numerical order.

6. Click Next.

7. Enter a New Pod Name. For example, EMC CIS Series 1. Click Next.

8. When the action has finished processing, a settings screen will be present.

9. The three key columns for this master pod clone are Source Snapshot, Clone

Type and Clone Role. The following settings should be applied to all virtual

machines:

a. Source Snapshot should be set to the GOLDEN_MASTER snapshot you

created previously.

b. Under Clone Type, verify that Linked is selected.

c. Under Clone Role, verify that Normal role is selected.

10. When you are done changing settings, click Clone Pod. This should complete

within a minute as we are creating linked virtual machines.

11. When the pod clone process is finished, click OK.

12. Since this is a normal pod, the virtual machines will revert to snapshot upon boot

up or shutdown of each pod. You will need to make a GOLDEN_MASTER

snapshot of every virtual machine in each pod created (section 4.3).

13. If you want to dedicate this pod to a particular class, team, or student, use the

Pod Assignment feature. For details, see the NETLAB+ Pod Assignment Guide.

14. Click the Online Button in the Pod Management page to activate the pod.

The user pod can now be reserved. When the reservation becomes active, NETLAB+ will

automatically configure virtual machines and virtual networking for your new pod.

The GOLDEN_MASTER snapshot is the starting point for all pods. We recommend that

you reserve the 1st pod and conduct some labs to make sure the snapshot images work

correctly. If there are defects, make corrections to the images to the master pod and

retake the GOLDEN_MASTER snapshot before creating additional pods.

Time Saver: If you clone the 1st user pod instead of the master pod, the defaults will all

be set correctly, and you will not have to change the Clone Type or Clone Role each

time. NETLAB+ will still assume you want to link to the master VMs as masters are

ranked higher than normal or persistent VMs in the default pod cloning selections.