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Eyeglass DR Azure & VMware MarketPlace Deployment Guide
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- OverView Azure Marketplace
- Requirements
- How to deploy Azure Marketplace Eyeglass DR
- Overview Vmware MarketPlace
- Subscribe to the MarketPlace Eyeglass OVA
- How to Deploy Eyeglass from a Content Library
OverView Azure Marketplace
Customers that use Azure can now deploy Eyeglass DR as a native VM directly from the Azure marketplace and use the cloud as a 3rd site cluster witness architecture to monitor their datacenter storage failover process with Eyeglass DR VM.
Requirements
- Azure Subscription and permissions to deploy VM's from the marketplace
- Minimum permissions and firewall rules enabled within Azure to reach the PowerScale clusters
How to deploy Azure Marketplace Eyeglass DR
- Login to the Azure console
- Click this link Superna Eyeglass DR Azure Marketplace Download
- Click Get it now and follow the normal VM deployment process
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- Ensure Firewall ports are open and IP routing configured to allow Eyeglass DR in Azure to reach your PowerScale clusters
- Download upgrade files by following the steps here
- Transfer the upgrade file to your Azure VM using WinSCP and default login admin and password 3y3gl4ss
- Follow the Software upgrade steps here to install the latest code into your Eyeglass Azure VM.
- Install licenses
- Done
Overview Vmware MarketPlace
A new deployment option for on premise vCenter content library subscription option or VMware on AWS Cloud deployment. This guide will cover the content library solution with the VMware marketplace.
NOTE: Not all versions of vcenter content library are tested. If you receive a deployment error due to compatibility issue with your version of vcenter, please download the OVA for direct deployment from https://support.superna.net and deploy the OVA following this guide.
Subscribe to the MarketPlace Eyeglass OVA
- Click this link to go to the Eyeglass Marketplace listing. You will need to login with your vmware account to be able to subscribe to the appliance.
- Click subscribe button
- Select the on premise option and name the content library entry Eyeglass
- Enable auto update with 2 versions
- Accept the EULA check box and click finish
- Click the Check subscription status link
- Scroll Down to get the subscription URL
- Copy the subscription URL
- Login to vcenter and open the content library UI
- Click + to add a new library
- Click next and switch to subscription library and paste the url into the url input.
- Select a data store to store the OVA image
- Click next and then finish to create the library
- This will trigger a download and may take time to complete before the template is available for deployment.
- Done.
How to Deploy Eyeglass from a Content Library
- Login to vCenter
- Open Content Library
- Click on Eyeglass Content Library
- Right Click the OVA template
- Select New VM from This Template Option
- Follow the VM deployment Wizard and select options to deploy the Eyeglass VM.
- On the VM Network tab make sure to change the Destination Eyeglass Network to a network in your vmware environment.
- Data Disk Size must be left at 80GB. Do not change this value.
- On the Customize Template tab --> Network section
- Edit the pre-populated IP address, network mask and gateway to match your network environment.
- Enter NTP IP address
- Enter a host name
- Enter DNS IP address (leave DNS search List blank)
- Complete the wizard to deploy the OVA appliance.
- Complete the remaining installation tasks following the installation guide.
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