Installing CTERA Portal Instances
- 17 May 2023
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Installing CTERA Portal Instances
- Updated on 17 May 2023
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Use the following workflow to install CTERA Portal on each virtual machine.
- Creating a Portal Instance using a CTERA Portal image from CTERA support at http://support.ctera.com.
- Logging In to the CTERA Portal Server and Configuring it with the Storage and changing the password.
- Configuring Network Settings.
- Configuring a Default Gateway.
- Additional Installation Instructions for Customers Without Internet Access
- For the first server you install, follow all of the steps in Configuring the CTERA Portal Primary Server.
- For any additional servers besides the primary server, configure the server as an additional server as described in Installing Additional CTERA Portal Servers.
- Make sure that you replicate the database, as described in Backing Up the Database.
Note
You can use block-storage-level snapshots for backup, but snapshots are periodical in nature, configured to run every few hours. Therefore, you cannot recover the metadata to any point-in-time, and can lose a significant amount of data on failure. Also, many storage systems do not support block-level snapshots and replication, or do not do so efficiently.
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