1.1 Pre-Requisites

This section contains prerequisites for conducting a Trial of ConVirt. It has some general prerequisites as well as some platform specific prerequisites.

1.1.1 General

• Connection to internet
• Compute servers
• Computer to install ConVirt or virtualization platform to run ConVirt Appliance.
• Check out Support Matrix for ConVirt.
• Installation Media : Some .iso files to test out creating new VM and doing installation.

1.2 Hyper-V Platform

• Managed Servers (Hyper-V) : 2 Servers with fresh install of Windows Server 2012 or Windows Server 2012-R2. With PowerShell remoting enabled.

• NICS : 2 Nics. One for management and another for creating VM on isolated network. (For non-cloud, single nic might suffice)

• Windows Proxy Server : Windows 2012 / Windows 2012 R2 virtual machine in the same domain as managed server. Should be able to run powershell command to managed server

• ConVirt Virtual Machine : : Some resources on your servers to run ConVirt virtual Machine Appliance.

Following required only for Cloud Edition testing.

• Network Service : Only required for Cloud Edition. One additional server or VM to be used as network service : with Ubuntu 12.04 or CentOS 5.x/6.x. This can be a virtual machine, with connectivity to
  • Management Network (to access)
  • Isolated network (for VM)
  • Public network (where the isolated VM may be made accessible via public IP)

• VLAN IDs: A set of free VLAN Ids.
• Public IPs : Few Ips on public networks to allocate to virtual machines.

• Related Documentation

  * http://convirture.com/ee_wiki/index.php?title=Hv_management
  * http://convirture.com/ee_wiki/index.php?title=Doc_3_0_cloud#Networking

1.3 Xen/KVM Platform

• Managed Servers : 2 or Servers with fresh install of one of the platform in Support Matrix.

• NICS : 2 Nics. One for management and another for creating VM on isolated network. (For non-cloud, single nic might suffice)

• Shared Storage : Either NFS or some other shared storage.

• ConVirt Virtual Machine : : Some resources on your servers to run ConVirt virtual Machine Appliance.

Following required only for Cloud Edition testing.

• Network Service : Only required for Cloud Edition. One additional server or VM to be used as network service : with Ubuntu 12.04 or CentOS 5.x/6.x. This can be a virtual machine, with connectivity to
  • Management Network (to access)
  • Isolated network (for VM)
  • Public network (where the isolated VM may be made accessible via public IP)

• VLAN IDs: A set of free VLAN Ids.
• Public IPs : Few Ips on public networks to allocate to virtual machines.

• Related Documentation

  * http://convirture.com/ee_wiki/index.php?title=Doc
  * http://convirture.com/ee_wiki/index.php?title=Doc_3_0_cloud#Networking

1.4 VMWare vSphere Platform

This section refers to standalone vSphere environment. For environments involving vCenter, please refer to appropriate section.

• Managed Servers : 2 or Servers with fresh install of one of the platform in Support Matrix.

• NICS : 2 Nics. One for management and another for creating VM on isolated network. (For non-cloud, single nic might suffice)

• Shared Storage : Either NFS or some other shared storage.

• ConVirt Virtual Machine : : Some resources on your servers to run ConVirt virtual Machine Appliance.

Following required only for Cloud Edition testing.

• Network Service : Only required for Cloud Edition. One additional server or VM to be used as network service : with Ubuntu 12.04 or CentOS 5.x/6.x. This can be a virtual machine, with connectivity to
  • Management Network (to access)
  • Isolated network (for VM)
  • Public network (where the isolated VM may be made accessible via public IP)

• VLAN IDs: A set of free VLAN Ids.
• Public IPs : Few Ips on public networks to allocate to virtual machines.

• Related Documentation

  * http://convirture.com/ee_wiki/index.php?title=Doc
  * http://convirture.com/ee_wiki/index.php?title=Doc_3_0_cloud#Networking

1.5 VMWare vCenter Platform

This section refers to vCenter environment. For managing vSphere environments NOT involving vCenter, please refer to appropriate section.

• vCenter : Test vCenter deployment.

• Managed Servers : 2 or Servers with fresh install of one of the platform inSupport Matrix.

• NICS : 2 Nics. One for management and another for creating VM on isolated network. (For non-cloud, single nic might suffice)

• Shared Storage : Either NFS or some other shared storage.

• ConVirt Virtual Machine : : Some resources on your servers to run ConVirt virtual Machine Appliance.

Following required only for Cloud Edition testing.

• Network Service : Only required for Cloud Edition. One additional server or VM to be used as network service : with Ubuntu 12.04 or CentOS 5.x/6.x. This can be a virtual machine, with connectivity to
  • Management Network (to access)
  • Isolated network (for VM)
  • Public network (where the isolated VM may be made accessible via public IP)

• VLAN IDs: A set of free VLAN Ids.
• Public IPs : Few Ips on public networks to allocate to virtual machines.

• Related Documentation

  * http://convirture.com/ee_wiki/index.php?title=Doc
  * http://convirture.com/ee_wiki/index.php?title=Doc_3_0_cloud#Networking