Installation, Upgrade, and Migration Guide for Cisco Unified MeetingPlace Release 8.5 - Installing on a Virtual Machine [Cisco Unified MeetingPlace]

Table Of Contents

Installing on a Virtual Machine

Requirements for Installing Cisco Unified MeetingPlace on a Virtual Machine

VMware ESXi Requirements

Virtual Machine Settings

Installing on a Virtual Machine

Configuring RAID Settings on the UCS B or C Series Server

UCS B Series Server

UCS C Series Server

Installing VMware ESXi

Creating a Virtual Machine

Powering on a Virtual Machine

Installing VMware Tools

Virtual Machine Considerations

Accessing the Console on a Virtual Machine

Installing on a Virtual Machine

Release 8.5

Revised: 5/27/11

See the Quick Start for Installing and Configuring Cisco Unified MeetingPlace Release 8.5 module for information about the order in which to install and configure the Cisco Unified MeetingPlace Release 8.5 components.

Note Before starting the installation of yourCisco Unified MeetingPlace system, be sure you have read the Planning Guide for Cisco Unified MeetingPlace 8.5 and understand all the Cisco Unified MeetingPlace components required for your deployment.

This module includes information specifically for installing either the Application Server or the Cisco WebEx Node for MCS on a virtual machine. The virtual machine must be running on VMware ESXi Release 4.1, on a Cisco UCS B Series or UCS C Series Server.

For more information on specific models, see System Requirements for Cisco Unified MeetingPlace Release 8.5 document at http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/sw/ps5664/ps5669/products_device_support_tables_list.html

For information on Unified Communications virtualization, see http://docwiki.cisco.com/wiki/Unified_Communications_Virtualization

Note The Cisco WebEx Node for MCS described in this module is an optional component of the Cisco Unified MeetingPlace system. It is not to be confused with the Cisco WebEx Node for ASR and cannot be used for a WebEx SaaS implementation.

•Requirements for Installing Cisco Unified MeetingPlace on a Virtual Machine

•Installing on a Virtual Machine

•Virtual Machine Considerations

Requirements for Installing Cisco Unified MeetingPlace on a Virtual Machine

Note The only Cisco Unified MeetingPlace components that may be installed on a virtual machine, with a VMware ESXi host, are the Application Server and the Cisco WebEx Node for MCS. All other Cisco Unified MeetingPlace components are not supported on a virtual machine.

•VMware ESXi Requirements

•Virtual Machine Settings

VMware ESXi Requirements

These are the minimum requirements for the machine that will host VMware ESXi. The information in this module includes information about the installation of VMware ESXi. If you have already installed it, make sure the physical server meets these requirements:

only for the UCS C series servers. The B series servers come with 2 SAS (146GB) drives. The minimum requirement for a B series server is 2 drives.

•UCS C Series Server

–Minimum of five 300 GB drives to six 148 GB hard drives per physical server

–Two drives in the first drive group for the ESXi host

–Remaining drives used as the datastore for the virtual machine

Maximize the block size to enable the largest capacity per logical drive

•UCS B Series Server

–Includes 2 SAS (146GB) drives.

The minimum requirement for a B Series Server is 2 drives.

–ESXi software is installed on the local SAS drives.

–The 300 GB hard drives stored on the SAN are configured for the virtual machine.

•Confirm the size and configuration of the datastore that is allocated to provision the node

•Enterprise Plus license for ESXi

Note Cisco UCS Servers do not support co-resident virtual machine images. You cannot install a virtual machine with a Cisco Unified MeetingPlace component if you already have a virtual machine image of another application, such as Cisco Unified Communications Manager or Cisco Unity Connection, installed on the same physical server.

Related Topics

•http://www.cisco.com/en/US/partner/products/ps10493/tsd_products_support_series_home.html

Virtual Machine Settings

•The virtual machine must have 8 vCPU (2.66 GHz), 8 GB RAM, and a 300GB hard drive.

•Install one virtual machine, per blade, on a Cisco UCS B or C Series Server.

•Be sure your LAN connection supports at least 1 Gb/s (gigabits per second) connection.

•Be sure your vSphere client has supports at least 1 Gb/s (gigabits per second) connection.

•One virtual NIC is required.

The Cisco Unified MeetingPlace system does not support:

•Snapshots or restoring a Cisco Unified MeetingPlace system from a snapshot

•VMotion

•Cloning a virtual machine

•Resource pools

Installing on a Virtual Machine

•Configuring RAID Settings on the UCS B or C Series Server

•Installing VMware ESXi

•Creating a Virtual Machine

•Installing VMware Tools

Configuring RAID Settings on the UCS B or C Series Server

Complete this procedure to configure RAID on the physical machine. If you have already configured and installed ESXi, then check your RAID settings. If the RAID settings do not meet the minimum requirements, then you need to reconfigure RAID and install ESXi again.

In this procedure, you are creating logical drives (volumes) on the physical drives. Use the first two physical drives to create a RAID 1 partition for ESXi. Use the remaining drives to create a RAID 5 partition for the virtual machine's datastore.

For detailed information on your specific server, see:

•UCS B Series Server: http://www.cisco.com/en/US/partner/products/ps10280/prod_installation_guides_list.html

•UCS C Series Server: http://www.cisco.com/en/US/partner/products/ps10493/prod_installation_guides_list.html

For detailed information on the utility used in this procedure, see the LSI MegaRAID SAS Software User's Guide (for LSI MegaRAID) at http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/unified_computing/ucs/3rd-party/lsi/mrsas/userguide/LSI_MR_SAS_SW_UG.pdf.

UCS B Series Server

Use a web browser and the Cisco UCS Manager to configure the RAID. Refer to the UCS Manager documentation for detailed instructions.

UCS C Series Server

Procedure

Step 1 Boot your physical machine and select Ctrl-H to get to the LSI Logic MegaRAID SCSI WebBIOS Configuration Utility.

Step 2 Select the Configuration Wizard and select New Configuration.

Step 3 Select Manual Configuration and make a drive group by selecting the first two drives and put them into Group 1.

You are using this datastore for the installation of ESXi.

Step 4 Make a second drive group by selecting the remaining drives and put them into Group 2.

You are using this datastore for the virtual machine.

Step 5 Configure the first group of drives as RAID level RAID 1 and select the following:

•Default write: Always Write Back

•Read: Ahead

•Disk Cache: Enable

Step 6 Configure the second group of drives as RAID level RAID 5 and select the following:

•Default write: Always Write Back

•Read: Ahead

•Disk Cache: Enable

Step 7 Ensure that Select Size corresponds to the RAID size for RAID 5.

Step 8 Save your configuration and select Initialize.

Step 9 Select Home and Exit the configuration utility.

Step 10 Reboot the physical server.

What To Do Next

•Installing VMware ESXi

Installing VMware ESXi

Note VMware ESXi must be Release 4.1.

For detailed instructions, see:

•Cisco UCS C-Series Servers VMware Installation Guide

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/unified_computing/ucs/c/sw/os/vmware/install/vmware_install_c.html

•Cisco UCS B-Series Servers VMware Installation Guide

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/unified_computing/ucs/sw/b/os/vmware/install/bseries-vmware-install.html

Procedure

Step 1 Insert the VMware ESXi media into the CD-ROM drive of the physical server, or connect an external USB device that can be utilized as a physical drive.

Step 2 When the boot screen comes up, select ESXi installer.

Step 3 Select the first drive group (RAID 1) for the ESXi installation.

Step 4 When the ESXi installation is complete, select Reboot.

The installer loads the VMware hypervisor.

Step 5 Customize your ESXi installation.

a. Configure your password for the ESXi host.

b. Set up the network configuration for your ESXi host and test it:

–IP Configuration

–DNS Configuration

–Custom DNS Suffixes

Step 6 Using the VMware vSphere Client, log in to your ESXi host as the root user.

Step 7 Select the Summary tab and confirm your virtual machine settings.

Step 8 Right-click the datastore for the virtual machine (second drive group) and Delete this datastore.

Step 9 Add the datastore for the virtual machine a second time, to maximize the block size and enable the largest capacity per logical drive.

a. Select the Configuration tab.

b. Select Storage, then select Add Storage.

c. Select Disk/LUN.

d. Select Use "free space".

e. Select the maximum block size (8 MB).

Step 10 Set up an NTP Server.

a. Select the Configuration tab.

b. Select Networking.

c. Select Time Configuration.

Step 11 Disable Large Receive Offload (LRO).

If you install the Cisco Unified MeetingPlace system on a virtual machine, then you may experience slow TCP performance on a virtual machine running on the VMware ESXi 4.1 host. To fix this problem, complete the following.

a. Select the Configuration tab.

b. Select Advanced Settings.

c. Select Net and scroll down to a little more than halfway down the list.

d. Change the following parameters from 1 to 0.

–Net.VmxnetSwLROSL

–Net.Vmxnet3SwLRO

–Net.Vmxnet3HwLRO

–Net.Vmxnet2SwLRO

–Net.Vmxnet2HwLRO

e. Select OK.

Step 12 Put the ESXi host into maintenance mode, then reboot the ESXi host to activate these changes.

What To Do Next

•Create a virtual machine for your Application Server(s) or Cisco WebEx Node for MCS.

Note Release 8.5 supports a maximum of one virtual machine per physical server.

Creating a Virtual Machine

Before You Begin

•Be sure you have installed the VMware Enterprise Plus license before creating a virtual machine.

Procedure

Step 1 Following the reboot, log in to the vSphere Client.

Step 2 Add the ESXi host, that you just created, to vCenter.

Step 3 After it has been added, navigate to the ESXi host and create a new virtual machine:

a. Select Custom, then create a name for your new virtual machine.

b. Select the second drive group as the datastore for your virtual machine.

c. Select Virtual Machine Version: 7.

d. Select Linux as the operating system and the version as Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 (32-bit).

e. Select 8 for the number of virtual processors.

f. Select 8 GB for the memory size.

g. Select 1 NIC on the VM Network and a Flexible Adapter.

h. Select LSI Logic Parallel for the SCSI Controller.

i. Select Create a new virtual disk.

j. Select a disk size capacity of 300 GB and Allocate and commit space on demand (Thin Provisioning).

k. Use SCSI (0:0) as the virtual device node.

l. Review your settings and make any necessary changes. Select Finish.

What To Do Next

•Powering on a Virtual Machine

1. Then install the Application Server or the Cisco WebEx Node for MCS. See the Installing the Cisco Unified MeetingPlace Application Server Software module or the Installing the Cisco WebEx Node for MCS module.

2. Complete Installing VMware Tools.

Powering on a Virtual Machine

Procedure

Step 1 Log in to the vSphere Client.

Step 2 Navigate to the newly created virtual machine and right click Open Console to open a console window for the virtual machine.

Step 3 From the console window, select VM > Power > Power On to power on the virtual machine.

What To Do Next

1. Install the Application Server or the Cisco WebEx Node for MCS. See the Installing the Cisco Unified MeetingPlace Application Server Software module or the Installing the Cisco WebEx Node for MCS module.

2. Complete Installing VMware Tools.

Installing VMware Tools

Procedure

Step 1 Following the reboot, in the virtual machine console window, log in to the Application Server command-line interface as the root user.

Step 2 Select VM > Guest > Install/Upgrade VMware Tools. Select OK to the confirmation message.

a. Mount the CD-ROM to access it:

mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom

b. Go to the /tmp directory:

cd /tmp

c. Uncompress the content of the VMware tools package.

tar zxpf /mnt/cdrom/VMwareTools<version_number>.tar.gz

This extracts the content to the /tmp directory.

Step 3 Go to the vmware-tools-distrib directory:

cd vmware-tools-distrib/

Step 4 Install VMware tools:

./vmware-install.pl

Step 5 Select Enter and accept all the default answers until the installation is complete.

Virtual Machine Considerations

•Accessing the Console on a Virtual Machine

Accessing the Console on a Virtual Machine

When accessing the console through a SSH session, you may experience intermittent failures because of network latency. One possible problem is unintended repeated characters. To reduce these effects, follow the procedure for "Repeated Characters when Typing in Remote Console" for the VMware ESX product in the VMware Knowledge Base (KB).

Note If you incorrectly type the mpxadmin password 3 times when starting a SSH session to the Application Server, then the mpxadmin account is locked. To unlock the account, sign in directly (not remotely) on the command-line interface of the Application Server as the root user, and enter faillog -r. Once the command completes, sign out and retry the SSH session.

	Installation, Upgrade, and Migration Guide for Cisco Unified MeetingPlace Release 8.5
	Installing on a Virtual Machine
Installation, Upgrade, and Migration Guide for Cisco Unified MeetingPlace Release 8.5 Initial Installation Quick Start for Installing Cisco Unified MeetingPlace Release 8.5 Installing on a Virtual Machine Installing the Cisco Unified MeetingPlace Application Server Software Installing the Cisco Unified MeetingPlace Hardware Setting Initial Values for the Media Server Changing Values for the Media Server Installing the Cisco Unified MeetingPlace Web Server Software Installing the Cisco Unified MeetingPlace Web Server Software in a Segmented Meeting Access (SMA) Configuration Installing the Cisco WebEx Node for MCS Migration Migration Matrix Migrating to a Cisco Unified MeetingPlace Release 8.5 System Using the MPtoWebEx CSV Converter Migrating from Cisco Unified MeetingPlace Release 7.0 or 8.0 Migrating to Cisco Unifed MeetingPlace Release 8.5 from Release 6.0 Migrating to Cisco Unified MeetingPlace Release 8.5 from Cisco Unified MeetingPlace Express Advanced Configuration for the Hardware Media Server Securing the Cisco Unified MeetingPlace 3500 Series Media Server Using the Media Server Administrator (MSA) Interface Configuring the Audio and Video Blades Configuring the Media Server Using the MSA Troubleshooting the Cisco Unified MeetingPlace 3500 Series Media Server Reference Information Cable Connections and Pin-Outs for the Cisco Unified MeetingPlace 3500 Series Media Server Safety for the Cisco Unified MeetingPlace 3500 Series Media Server Compliance and Certifications for the Cisco Unified MeetingPlace 3500 Series Media Server Technical Specifications for the Cisco Unified MeetingPlace 3500 Series Media Server	Download this chapter Installing on a Virtual Machine Table Of Contents Installing on a Virtual Machine Requirements for Installing Cisco Unified MeetingPlace on a Virtual Machine VMware ESXi Requirements Virtual Machine Settings Installing on a Virtual Machine Configuring RAID Settings on the UCS B or C Series Server UCS B Series Server UCS C Series Server Installing VMware ESXi Creating a Virtual Machine Powering on a Virtual Machine Installing VMware Tools Virtual Machine Considerations Accessing the Console on a Virtual Machine Installing on a Virtual Machine Release 8.5 Revised: 5/27/11 See the Quick Start for Installing and Configuring Cisco Unified MeetingPlace Release 8.5 module for information about the order in which to install and configure the Cisco Unified MeetingPlace Release 8.5 components. Note Before starting the installation of yourCisco Unified MeetingPlace system, be sure you have read the Planning Guide for Cisco Unified MeetingPlace 8.5 and understand all the Cisco Unified MeetingPlace components required for your deployment. This module includes information specifically for installing either the Application Server or the Cisco WebEx Node for MCS on a virtual machine. The virtual machine must be running on VMware ESXi Release 4.1, on a Cisco UCS B Series or UCS C Series Server. For more information on specific models, see System Requirements for Cisco Unified MeetingPlace Release 8.5 document at http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/sw/ps5664/ps5669/products_device_support_tables_list.html For information on Unified Communications virtualization, see http://docwiki.cisco.com/wiki/Unified_Communications_Virtualization Note The Cisco WebEx Node for MCS described in this module is an optional component of the Cisco Unified MeetingPlace system. It is not to be confused with the Cisco WebEx Node for ASR and cannot be used for a WebEx SaaS implementation. •Requirements for Installing Cisco Unified MeetingPlace on a Virtual Machine •Installing on a Virtual Machine •Virtual Machine Considerations Requirements for Installing Cisco Unified MeetingPlace on a Virtual Machine Note The only Cisco Unified MeetingPlace components that may be installed on a virtual machine, with a VMware ESXi host, are the Application Server and the Cisco WebEx Node for MCS. All other Cisco Unified MeetingPlace components are not supported on a virtual machine. •VMware ESXi Requirements •Virtual Machine Settings VMware ESXi Requirements These are the minimum requirements for the machine that will host VMware ESXi. The information in this module includes information about the installation of VMware ESXi. If you have already installed it, make sure the physical server meets these requirements: only for the UCS C series servers. The B series servers come with 2 SAS (146GB) drives. The minimum requirement for a B series server is 2 drives. •UCS C Series Server –Minimum of five 300 GB drives to six 148 GB hard drives per physical server –Two drives in the first drive group for the ESXi host –Remaining drives used as the datastore for the virtual machine Maximize the block size to enable the largest capacity per logical drive •UCS B Series Server –Includes 2 SAS (146GB) drives. The minimum requirement for a B Series Server is 2 drives. –ESXi software is installed on the local SAS drives. –The 300 GB hard drives stored on the SAN are configured for the virtual machine. •Confirm the size and configuration of the datastore that is allocated to provision the node •Enterprise Plus license for ESXi Note Cisco UCS Servers do not support co-resident virtual machine images. You cannot install a virtual machine with a Cisco Unified MeetingPlace component if you already have a virtual machine image of another application, such as Cisco Unified Communications Manager or Cisco Unity Connection, installed on the same physical server. Related Topics •http://www.cisco.com/en/US/partner/products/ps10493/tsd_products_support_series_home.html Virtual Machine Settings •The virtual machine must have 8 vCPU (2.66 GHz), 8 GB RAM, and a 300GB hard drive. •Install one virtual machine, per blade, on a Cisco UCS B or C Series Server. •Be sure your LAN connection supports at least 1 Gb/s (gigabits per second) connection. •Be sure your vSphere client has supports at least 1 Gb/s (gigabits per second) connection. •One virtual NIC is required. The Cisco Unified MeetingPlace system does not support: •Snapshots or restoring a Cisco Unified MeetingPlace system from a snapshot •VMotion •Cloning a virtual machine •Resource pools Installing on a Virtual Machine •Configuring RAID Settings on the UCS B or C Series Server •Installing VMware ESXi •Creating a Virtual Machine •Installing VMware Tools Configuring RAID Settings on the UCS B or C Series Server Complete this procedure to configure RAID on the physical machine. If you have already configured and installed ESXi, then check your RAID settings. If the RAID settings do not meet the minimum requirements, then you need to reconfigure RAID and install ESXi again. In this procedure, you are creating logical drives (volumes) on the physical drives. Use the first two physical drives to create a RAID 1 partition for ESXi. Use the remaining drives to create a RAID 5 partition for the virtual machine's datastore. For detailed information on your specific server, see: •UCS B Series Server: http://www.cisco.com/en/US/partner/products/ps10280/prod_installation_guides_list.html •UCS C Series Server: http://www.cisco.com/en/US/partner/products/ps10493/prod_installation_guides_list.html For detailed information on the utility used in this procedure, see the LSI MegaRAID SAS Software User's Guide (for LSI MegaRAID) at http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/unified_computing/ucs/3rd-party/lsi/mrsas/userguide/LSI_MR_SAS_SW_UG.pdf. UCS B Series Server Use a web browser and the Cisco UCS Manager to configure the RAID. Refer to the UCS Manager documentation for detailed instructions. UCS C Series Server Procedure Step 1 Boot your physical machine and select Ctrl-H to get to the LSI Logic MegaRAID SCSI WebBIOS Configuration Utility. Step 2 Select the Configuration Wizard and select New Configuration. Step 3 Select Manual Configuration and make a drive group by selecting the first two drives and put them into Group 1. You are using this datastore for the installation of ESXi. Step 4 Make a second drive group by selecting the remaining drives and put them into Group 2. You are using this datastore for the virtual machine. Step 5 Configure the first group of drives as RAID level RAID 1 and select the following: •Default write: Always Write Back •Read: Ahead •Disk Cache: Enable Step 6 Configure the second group of drives as RAID level RAID 5 and select the following: •Default write: Always Write Back •Read: Ahead •Disk Cache: Enable Step 7 Ensure that Select Size corresponds to the RAID size for RAID 5. Step 8 Save your configuration and select Initialize. Step 9 Select Home and Exit the configuration utility. Step 10 Reboot the physical server. What To Do Next •Installing VMware ESXi Installing VMware ESXi Note VMware ESXi must be Release 4.1. For detailed instructions, see: •Cisco UCS C-Series Servers VMware Installation Guide http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/unified_computing/ucs/c/sw/os/vmware/install/vmware_install_c.html •Cisco UCS B-Series Servers VMware Installation Guide http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/unified_computing/ucs/sw/b/os/vmware/install/bseries-vmware-install.html Procedure Step 1 Insert the VMware ESXi media into the CD-ROM drive of the physical server, or connect an external USB device that can be utilized as a physical drive. Step 2 When the boot screen comes up, select ESXi installer. Step 3 Select the first drive group (RAID 1) for the ESXi installation. Step 4 When the ESXi installation is complete, select Reboot. The installer loads the VMware hypervisor. Step 5 Customize your ESXi installation. a. Configure your password for the ESXi host. b. Set up the network configuration for your ESXi host and test it: –IP Configuration –DNS Configuration –Custom DNS Suffixes Step 6 Using the VMware vSphere Client, log in to your ESXi host as the root user. Step 7 Select the Summary tab and confirm your virtual machine settings. Step 8 Right-click the datastore for the virtual machine (second drive group) and Delete this datastore. Step 9 Add the datastore for the virtual machine a second time, to maximize the block size and enable the largest capacity per logical drive. a. Select the Configuration tab. b. Select Storage, then select Add Storage. c. Select Disk/LUN. d. Select Use "free space". e. Select the maximum block size (8 MB). Step 10 Set up an NTP Server. a. Select the Configuration tab. b. Select Networking. c. Select Time Configuration. Step 11 Disable Large Receive Offload (LRO). If you install the Cisco Unified MeetingPlace system on a virtual machine, then you may experience slow TCP performance on a virtual machine running on the VMware ESXi 4.1 host. To fix this problem, complete the following. a. Select the Configuration tab. b. Select Advanced Settings. c. Select Net and scroll down to a little more than halfway down the list. d. Change the following parameters from 1 to 0. –Net.VmxnetSwLROSL –Net.Vmxnet3SwLRO –Net.Vmxnet3HwLRO –Net.Vmxnet2SwLRO –Net.Vmxnet2HwLRO e. Select OK. Step 12 Put the ESXi host into maintenance mode, then reboot the ESXi host to activate these changes. What To Do Next •Create a virtual machine for your Application Server(s) or Cisco WebEx Node for MCS. Note Release 8.5 supports a maximum of one virtual machine per physical server. Creating a Virtual Machine Before You Begin •Be sure you have installed the VMware Enterprise Plus license before creating a virtual machine. Procedure Step 1 Following the reboot, log in to the vSphere Client. Step 2 Add the ESXi host, that you just created, to vCenter. Step 3 After it has been added, navigate to the ESXi host and create a new virtual machine: a. Select Custom, then create a name for your new virtual machine. b. Select the second drive group as the datastore for your virtual machine. c. Select Virtual Machine Version: 7. d. Select Linux as the operating system and the version as Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 (32-bit). e. Select 8 for the number of virtual processors. f. Select 8 GB for the memory size. g. Select 1 NIC on the VM Network and a Flexible Adapter. h. Select LSI Logic Parallel for the SCSI Controller. i. Select Create a new virtual disk. j. Select a disk size capacity of 300 GB and Allocate and commit space on demand (Thin Provisioning). k. Use SCSI (0:0) as the virtual device node. l. Review your settings and make any necessary changes. Select Finish. What To Do Next •Powering on a Virtual Machine 1. Then install the Application Server or the Cisco WebEx Node for MCS. See the Installing the Cisco Unified MeetingPlace Application Server Software module or the Installing the Cisco WebEx Node for MCS module. 2. Complete Installing VMware Tools. Powering on a Virtual Machine Procedure Step 1 Log in to the vSphere Client. Step 2 Navigate to the newly created virtual machine and right click Open Console to open a console window for the virtual machine. Step 3 From the console window, select VM > Power > Power On to power on the virtual machine. What To Do Next 1. Install the Application Server or the Cisco WebEx Node for MCS. See the Installing the Cisco Unified MeetingPlace Application Server Software module or the Installing the Cisco WebEx Node for MCS module. 2. Complete Installing VMware Tools. Installing VMware Tools Procedure Step 1 Following the reboot, in the virtual machine console window, log in to the Application Server command-line interface as the root user. Step 2 Select VM > Guest > Install/Upgrade VMware Tools. Select OK to the confirmation message. a. Mount the CD-ROM to access it: mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom b. Go to the /tmp directory: cd /tmp c. Uncompress the content of the VMware tools package. tar zxpf /mnt/cdrom/VMwareTools<version_number>.tar.gz This extracts the content to the /tmp directory. Step 3 Go to the vmware-tools-distrib directory: cd vmware-tools-distrib/ Step 4 Install VMware tools: ./vmware-install.pl Step 5 Select Enter and accept all the default answers until the installation is complete. Virtual Machine Considerations •Accessing the Console on a Virtual Machine Accessing the Console on a Virtual Machine When accessing the console through a SSH session, you may experience intermittent failures because of network latency. One possible problem is unintended repeated characters. To reduce these effects, follow the procedure for "Repeated Characters when Typing in Remote Console" for the VMware ESX product in the VMware Knowledge Base (KB). Note If you incorrectly type the mpxadmin password 3 times when starting a SSH session to the Application Server, then the mpxadmin account is locked. To unlock the account, sign in directly (not remotely) on the command-line interface of the Application Server as the root user, and enter faillog -r. Once the command completes, sign out and retry the SSH session.
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