Deploying the virtual appliance through Hyper-V Manager
To know about virtual appliance deployment in Veritas Resiliency Platform:
See About deploying the Resiliency Platform virtual appliances.
You can deploy Veritas Resiliency Platform virtual appliance through Hyper-V Manager using the Virtual Hard Disk (VHD) files that you have downloaded. There are two VHD files used for deploying the Resiliency Platform virtual appliance.
To deploy Resiliency Platform through Hyper-V Manager
- Download the Hyper-V supported VHD file for the Resiliency Platform virtual appliance on a system where Hyper-V Manager is installed.
See Downloading the Veritas Resiliency Platform virtual appliances.
- In the Hyper-V Manager console, right-click the Hyper-V server and select New Virtual Machine.
- Provide a name for the virtual machine.
- Select Generation 1 while specifying generation.
- Assign minimum 16 GB RAM for IMS or Replication Gateway and 32 GB RAM for Resiliency Manager.
- Select a network adapter for the virtual machine.
- Select the option Attach a virtual hard disk later while specifying option to connect virtual hard disk.
- Review the virtual machine configuration details and click Finish.
- Go to Settings, and increase the number of virtual processors as 8.
- Add the VHD file of the Resiliency Platform virtual appliance as IDE Controller 0.
- Click Apply, and then click OK.
- If you want to use DHCP as your network, enter the MAC address of the appliance in the DHCP server. For information on obtaining the MAC address of the appliance, see the documentation of Hyper-V Manager.
- Right-click the name of the virtual machine and select Start to power on the virtual machine.
You can now configure the Resiliency Platform component.
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