Deployment

NetLD provides flexible deployment as a virtual appliance across major hypervisors and cloud platforms, maintaining consistent core requirements while adapting to platform-specific configurations.

VMware ESXi

This section describes the deployment procedure to VMware ESXi. Here we will explain using ESXi 6.5 as an example.

1. Log in to the Web UI and click [Create/Register Virtual Machine] from the virtual machine.

2. Select “Deploy a virtual machine from an OVF or OVA file” and click [Next].

5. Select your storage, and click [Next].

6. Select the network and disk provisioning you want to deploy, and click [Next].

7. Click [Finish].

After deployment is completed, please start the new virtual machine.

Windows Hyper-V

This section describes the deployment procedure to Windows Hyper-V. Here we will explain using Windows Server 2016 as an example.

Prerequisites

• Hyper-V must be installed in Roles and Features.
• At least one virtual switch is required.

1. Start Hyper-V Manager and click [New] > [Virtual Machine].

2. Enter a name for your virtual machine and click [Next].

3. Select “Generation 1” and click [Next].

4. Set the startup memory, and click [Next].

5. Select the virtual switch you want to connect to, and click [Next].

6. Select “Attach a virtual hard disk later”, and click [Next].

7. Click [Finish].

The virtual machine will now be created.

Next, assign the two VHDX files to the created virtual machine:

8. Right-click the virtual machine you created and click [Settings].

9. Select “Processor”, and change [Number of virtual processors].

10. Select “IDE Controller 0”, and click [Add].

11. Click [Browse].

12. Add “disk1”, and click [OK].

13. Repeat steps 8 to 12 to add disk2.vhdx.

14. Click [OK].

This completes the Windows Hyper-V deployment.

Linux KVM

1. Save the qcow2 file in a directory of your choice.
2. Launch “Virtual Machine manager”.
3. From the file menu, click [New Virtual Machine].
4. Select “Import an existing disk image” and click [Next].
5. Specify the uploaded file in “Specify the path of the existing storage”.
6. In “select the operating system you want to install”, select “Generic or unknown OS”.
7. Enter the resources you want to assign and click [Next].
8. Enter a name for the virtual machine and check “Customize settings before installation”.
9. Open [Network Selection], select the device that matches your network environment and click [Finish].
10. Click on [IDE Disk1] and change the Disk Bus to “SCSI”.
11. Click on [Add Hardware] and add at least 50GB of storage.
12. Click [Begin Installation].

This completes the KVM deployment.

Nutanix AHV+

1. Login to Nutanix Prism and go to [Settings] from the pull-down menu at the top of the screen.
2. Click [image settings] from the menu on the left.
3. Click [upload image].
4. Enter a name and storage container
5. Specify the qcow2 file in “Upload a file” and click [Save].
6. Once the upload is complete, go to “Virtual Machines” from the drop-down menu at the top of the screen.
7. Click [Create Virtual Machine].
8. Enter the VM name and resource you want to allocate.
9. Click [Add new Disk].
10. Select [Clone from Image Service] from the Operation dropdown menu.
11. Select the image you created from the Image dropdown and add it.
12. Click [Add new Disk" again].
13. Set the size to at least 50GB and add it.
14. Add a NIC by clicking [Add New NIC].
15. Click [Save].

This completes the Nutanix deployment.

Microsoft Azure

1. Log into Azure and go to the “Storage Accounts” service.
2. Click an existing storage account or click [Create] to create a storage account.
3. In the storage account menu, click [Data Storage] > [containers].
4. Click on an existing container or create a container from [containers].
5. Click [upload].
6. Select the VHD file you downloaded.
7. Open [Advanced settings] and change the Blob type to “Page blob”.
8. Click [Upload].
9. Once the upload is complete, go to the “disk” service.
10. Click [Create].
11. Select your subscription resource group and region.
12. Enter the disk name.
13. Change the source type to “Storage Blob”, and select the file where you uploaded the source blob.
14. Change the OS type to “linux”
15. In the size section, click [change size].
16. Select the “storage type” that suits your environment (SSD is recommended).
17. Select the top 4GB and click [OK].
18. Click [Review and create].
19. Check the details, and click [Create].
20. Once creation is complete, click [Go to Resource].
21. Click [Create VM].
22. Enter the virtual machine name.
23. Select the resources you want to allocate to the virtual machine by size.
24. Go to the [disks] tab.
25. in the Data Disk section, click [Create and connect a new disk].
26. In the Size section, click [change size].
27. Select the “storage type” that suits your environment (SSD is recommended).
28. 64GB or larger and add a data disk.
29. Verify that the host cache is “read/write”.
30. Go to the [Network] tab and configure the network settings to suit your Azure environment.
31. Click [Review].
32. Check the details, and click [Create].

This completes the deployment on Azure.

AWS

1. Login to AWS EC2 and click [launch Instance].
2. Give it a name and optionally set tags.
3. Click [Browse more AMI at Application and OS images] .
4. Select “Community AMIs”, enter lvi-core in the search field, and perform a search.

5. Select an instance type based on the sizing guidelines.
6. After creating a key pair in Key Pair (login), click [download key pair].
7. In the network settings, assign a group. You can choose an existing security group or create one. You can add a new security group.
8. [Under Configure Storage], click [add new volume] and set the size to at least 50GB.
9. Once configured, click [launch instance].