KVM

Installing the CTERA Edge Filer in a KVM /OpenStack Environment

Installing the CTERA Edge Filer involves creating and configuring a virtual machine and then performing an initial configuration, described in First Time Setup.

Contact CTERA Networks, and request the latest qcow2 CTERA Edge Filer disk image.

You can install the CTERA Edge Filer on KVM via the OpenStack console or another console. The following instructions describe how to install a CTERA Edge Filer directly in KVM.

You require a Linux machine with KVM virtualization and Virtual Machine Manager (virt-manager) installed and running and the *.qcow2 image file located on the machine.

To install the CTERA Edge Filer:

1. Log in to the KVM machine.

2. Copy the KVM image file, <version>.qcow2 to a folder on the KVM machine where version is the CTERA Edge Filer version.

3. In the folder where you copied the KVM image file, create the data disk for the CTERA Edge Filer using the following command: qemu-img create -f qcow2 data.qcow2 <diskSize> where diskSize is the size of the data disk, based on the license.

   • For an EV16 license, the maximum is 16TB.
   • For an EV32 license, the maximum is 32TB.
   • For an EV64 license, the maximum is 64TB.
   • For an EV128 license, the maximum is 128TB.
   • For an EV256 license, the maximum is 256TB.

4. Change the permissions for the data disk using the following command: chmod 777

5. Create the CTERA Edge Filer using the following command: virt-install --name <name> --vcpus <cpus> --memory <memory> --disk path=<version>.qcow2 --disk path=data.qcow2 --network bridge=br0 --os-variant centos7.0 --import --noautoconsole
   where:
   name is the name assigned to the CTERA Edge Filer VM.
   cpu is the number of vCPUs.
   memory is the memory requirement in MB based on the license.

   • EV16 supports a maximum RAM of 8GB.
   • EV32 supports a maximum RAM of 16GB.
   • EV64 supports a maximum RAM of 32GB.
   • EV128 supports a maximum RAM of 64GB.
   • EV256 supports a maximum RAM of 128GB.
     
     

   version is the CTERA Edge Filer version.

The server is created and started up.