Cisco Prime Optical Installation Guide, 10.5

Installing the Prime Optical Virtual Appliance

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You can deploy a preconfigured Prime Optical virtual appliance stored in Open Virtual Machine Format (OVF). The procedure involves deploying a ready-for-use virtual machine that has RHEL, Oracle, and Prime Optical installed and configured in it that is released as OVF/OVA file.

Information About Deploying the OVF Template

The Prime Optical virtual appliance is a preconfigured Prime Optical virtual machine with a single-server, Oracle-embedded database in a medium-size network configuration. It is configured with the user optusr. The default Prime Optical client username is SysAdmin and the password is Ctm123!.

All the properties fields in the OVF template must have values. The entries and selections you make on the deployment configuration pages control which fields are required.

During initial power on, all input is validated. Once validated, the Prime Optical virtual appliance is installed, and the VM is configured and then rebooted.

VM Configuration

The configuration of the VM distributed in the OVA file is as follows:

• Prime Optical client default credentials: SysAdmin/Ctm 123!
• Prime Optical medium installation, single server, embedded Oracle, root user
• OS—RHEL 6.6 with basic server installation (no graphics)
• OS default credentials: root/cisco! (ssh access)

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Note Customer is strongly recommended to change default credentials.

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• Operating System configuration details: the local language is set to English (US)

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Note Customer is suggested to check them and realign them based on specific configuration needs.

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• RAM—16 GB
• Processors—2 virtual CPUs
• Disk 1 (/dev/sda), 38GB for /, swap
• Disk 2 (/dev/sdb), 106GB for / cisco, /db01, /db04,
• Disk 3 (/dev/sdc), 126GB for /oracle, /db02, /db03, /db05
• Disk 3 (/dev/sdd), 208 GB for /ctm_backup
• Total disk size is 478GB
• 4 disks (thin provisioning format)
• Disk Space and Partition Allocation—See Table 9-1 for more information on the disk space description for OVA installation.

Refer to Table 2-5 “Disk Space and Partition Requirements for Installing the Prime Optical Server and Oracle on the Same Workstation—PM Collection Enabled” for more information.

 

Table 9-1 Disk Space Description for OVA Installation

Disk Name	Disk Size	List of Partitions
Disk 1(/dev/sda)	38 GB	/ swap
Disk 2(/dev/sdb)	106 GB	/cisco /db01 /db04
Disk 3(/dev/sdc)	126 GB	/oracle /db02 /db03 /db05
Disk 3(/dev/sdd)	208 GB	/ctm_backup

Deploying the Prime Optical Virtual Appliance

You can deploy a preconfigured Prime Optical virtual appliance. This consists in deploying a ready for use virtual machine, already installed and configured with RHEL, Oracle and Prime Optical. It is distributed/released as OVF/OVA file (Open Virtual Machine Format).

Before You Begin

• Make sure you have the Prime Optical installation USB drive—Linux.
• Make sure that the VMware setup is available and accessible via vSphere client (Consult your system administrator on the VMware configuration).
• Make sure that VMwAre setup can support the virtual machine to be deployed as a virtual appliance. Check the VM disk, memory, and CPU description (Consult your system administrator on the VMware configuration).
• Note the name for the VM, inventory location, host/cluster name, and disk format and location to store the VM virtual disks (Consult your system administrator on the VMware configuration).

Note See “About Virtual Disk Provisioning Policies” in VMware vSphere documentation for disk format details.

To deploy the Cisco Prime Optical virtual appliance:

Note Make sure to identify the network information of the VM to deploy such as the hostname, domain name, IP address, netmask/prefix, default gateway, and DNS.

Step 1 Insert the Cisco Prime Optical Server installation USB drive—Linux in your workstation.

Wait for the automatic discovery of the device.

You can find the OVF file at the following location:

Step 2 Start the VMware vSphere Client and enter the IP address or name of the host that needs to be directly managed.

Step 3 Enter the username and password of the VMware server.

Step 4 Click Login.

Step 5 Choose File > Deploy OVF Template.

Step 6 Navigate to the OVF template file (va.ovf), then click Next.

Step 7 Verify OVF details, and then click Next.

Step 8 Specify the virtual appliance name and location for the template that you are deploying, then click Next.

Step 9 Select the VM host or cluster on which you want to run the OVF template, then click Next.

Step 10 Navigate to and select the resource pool (if required) where you want to run the OVF template (check with the VMware setup administrator), and then click Next.

Step 11 Select a datastore to store the deployed OVF template, and then click Next.

On this page, the datastore is a logical repository that has already been configured on the destination cluster or host. Select a datastore that has enough space to store the VM and all its virtual disks.

Step 12 Select a disk format to store the virtual disks, and then click Next. See “ About Virtual Disk Provisioning Policies ” in VMware vSphere documentation for disk format details.

Step 13 Verify the details of the OVF file, the name of the virtual appliance, size, host, and storage details, then click Finish to start the deployment. Consult your system administrator for more information on the VMware setup.

This may take a while to complete. Check the progress bar in the Deploying Virtual Application window to monitor the task status.

After the deployment task has successfully completed, a confirmation window appears.

Step 14 Click Close.

The virtual appliance that you deployed is listed under the host, in the left pane of the vSphere client.

Step 15 Enter the following commands to unmount the image file and free the device:

Booting and Configuring the Prime Optical Virtual Appliance

To boot and then configure the Prime Optical virtual appliance:

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Step 1 After deploying the virtual appliance, select the virtual machine name in vSphere, right-click it and choose Open Console.

Step 2 Choose Power > Power On, and then click in the window.

During initial boot of the newly deployed machine, you will be prompted to enter root (system) credentials (password is cisco!).

The VM is reachable only through the console till the network configuration is done.

Step 3 Edit the /cisco/PrimeOpticalServer/cfg/va.cfg configuration file. The file content is reported below:

HOSTNAME va

IPADDR 10.58.65.196

GATEWAY 10.58.65.1

PREFIX 24

DNS 144.254.71.184

DOMAIN cisco.com

 

The configuration file must be modified to set the target networking parameters of the VM.

Step 4 Edit and enter the hostname, IP address, gateway, prefix, DNS, and domain information in the /cisco/PrimeOpticalServer/cfg/va.cfg configuration file. Consult your system administrator on the VMware configuration for appropriate values.

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Note Hostname must be unqualified hostname (va) and not fully qualified hostname (va.cisco.com). The hostname must be registered in DNS.

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Step 5 Save and exit the file when you are done editing.

Step 6 Run the /opt/CiscoTransportManagerServer/bin/va_config.sh script and enter yes to apply the configuration.

Step 7 When you are prompted, reboot the VM.

Step 8 After reboot, the VM is reachable using SSH and Prime Optical will start to boot. It may take some time.

Step 9 For troubleshooting or configuration problems, view the /temp_CTM/va_cfg.log file.

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