Spinning up the Trilio VM
Learn about spinning up the Trilio VM
For Canonical Openstack it is not necessary to spin up the Trilio VM. However, Trilio File Search functionality requires that the Trilio Workload manager (trilio-wlm) be deployed as a virtual machine. File Search will not function if the Trilio Workload manager (trilio-wlm) is running as a lxd container(s).
The Trilio Appliance is delivered as qcow2 image and runs as VM on top of a KVM Hypervisor.
This guide shows the tested way to spin up the Trilio Appliance on a RHV Cluster. Please contact a RHV Administrator and Trilio Customer Success Agent in case of incompatibility with company standards.
The Trilio appliance is utilizing cloud-init to provide the initial network and user configuration.
Cloud-init is reading it's information either from a metadata server or from a provided cd image. Trilio is utilizing the cd image.
To create the cloud-init image it is required to have genisoimage available.
#For RHEL and centos
yum install genisoimage
#For Ubuntu
apt-get install genisoimage
Cloud-init is using two files for it's metadata.
The first file is called
meta-data and contains the information about the network configuration.
Below is an example of this file.Keep the hostname localhost. The hostname gets changed through the configuration step. Changing the hostname will lead to the tvault-config service not properly starting, blocking further configuration.
[[email protected]]# cat meta-data
instance-id: triliovault
network-interfaces: |
auto eth0
iface eth0 inet static
address 158.69.170.20
netmask 255.255.255.0
gateway 158.69.170.30
dns-nameservers 11.11.0.51
local-hostname: localhost
The instance-id has to match the VM name in virsh
The second file is called
user-data and contains little scripts and information to set up for example the user passwords.
Below is an example of this file.[[email protected]]# cat user-data
#cloud-config
chpasswd:
list: |
root:password1
stack:password2
expire: False
Both files meta-data and user-data are needed. Even when one is empty, is it needed to create a working cloud-init image.
The image is getting created using genisoimage follwing this general command:
genisoimage -output <name>.iso -volid cidata -joliet -rock </path/user-data> </path/meta-data>An example of this command is shown below.
genisoimage -output tvault-firstboot-config.iso -volid cidata -joliet -rock user-data meta-data
The Trilio Appliance qcow2 image can be downloaded from the Trilio customer portal. Please contact your Trilio sales or technical lead to get access to the portal.
After the cloud-init image has been created the TriloVault appliance can be spun up on the desired KVM server.
Extract the Trilio QCOW2 tar file using the following command :
tar Jxvf TrilioVault_file.tar.xz
See below an example command, how to spin up the Trilio appliance using virsh and the created iso image.
virt-install -n triliovault-vm --memory 24576 --vcpus 8 \
--os-type linux \
--disk tvault-appliance-os-3.0.154.qcow2,device=disk,bus=virtio,size=40 \
--network bridge=virbr0,model=virtio \
--network bridge=virbr1,model=virtio \
--graphics none \
--import \
--disk path=tvault-firstboot-config.iso,device=cdrom
It is of course possible to spin up the Trilio appliance without a cloud-init iso-image.
It will spin up with default values.
Once the Trilio appliance is up and running with it's initial configuration is it recommended to uninstall cloud-init.
If cloud-init is not installed it will rerun the network configuration upon every boot. Setting the network configuration back to DHCP, if no metadata is provided.
To uninstall cloud-init, follow the example below.
sudo yum remove cloud-init
It is recommended to directly update the Trilio appliance to the latest version.
To do so follow the minor update guide provided here: