Spinning up the TrilioVault VM

The TrilioVault Appliance is delivered as qcow2 image and runs as VM on top of a KVM Hypervisor.

The TrilioVault VM qcow2 image must be an available disk on the RHV Storage before the creation of the TrilioVault Appliance is possible.

This guide shows the tested way to spin up the TrilioVault Appliance on a RHV Cluster. Please contact a RHV Administrator and Trilio Customer Success Agent in case of incompatibility with company standards.

Creation the TrilioVault VM

The creation of the TrilioVault VM works like for any other Virtual Machine inside RHV.

To create a new Virtual Machine, go to Compute ➡️ Virtual Machines.

The button "New" opens the window to define the VM.

The following instructions show the tested configuration for the TrilioVault Appliance.

After configuration, use the OK button to create the TrilioVault Appliance.

It is a required to activate the Advanced Options.

General Tab

Fill out the following details as necessary on the General tab:

• Cluster - Choose the RHV Cluster to host the TrilioVault VM

• Template - Blank

• Operating System - The TrilioVault VM runs CentOS 7. Red Hat Enterprise 7.x x64 is a valid option.

• Instance Type - Custom

• Optimized for - Server

• Name - Provide a RHV internal name for the TrilioVault VM

• Description - Provide a RHV internal description for the TrilioVault VM (optional)

• Comment - Provide a RHV internal comment for the TrilioVault VM (Optional)

• Activate Delete Protection

• NICs - Choose the network the TrilioVault VM connects with. The plus and minus symbols add/delete NICs as necessary.

Before moving to the next tab, attach the TrilioVault qcow2 image to the VM definition.

• Click Attach under Instance Images.

• Choose the TrilioVault qcow2 image

• Check the box for OS

Without checking the box for OS, will the TrilioVault Appliance not boot, as the RHV VM is not utilizing the disk as the boot disk.

System Tab

Under the System tab set the following:

• Memory size - 24576 MB / 24 GB

• Maximum memory - 24576 MB / 24 GB (RHV automatically first sets four times the Memory size)

• Physical Memory Guaranteed - 24576 MB / 24 GB (RHV automatically first sets the same value as Memory size)

It is possible to set the initial Memory size to 8GB. RHV is automatically setting the Maximum Memory to 4 times the Memory size value. The actual Memory size can be adjusted later as needed.

Note: Do not set the Physical Memory Guaranteed below 8GB.

• Total virtual CPUs - 4

• Nothing to set at the Advanced Parameters

• Leave Hardware Clock Timer Offset at 0

• Leave custom serial policy unchecked

Initial Run

Under the Initial Run tab set the following:

• Check "Use Cloud-Init/Sysprep"

• (Optional) Set VM Hostname

• (Optional) Check and set "Configure Time Zone"

• Open Authentication

  • Set User Name

  • Set Password or SSH authentication

• Open Networks

  • Set "Cloud-Init Network Protocol" to "Openstack Metadata"

  • (optional) Set DNS Servers and DNS Search Domains

  • Check In-guest Network Interface Name

  • Set IPv4 configuration as necessary

Further Tabs

There are no TrilioVault specific configurations necessary in any further tab.

Starting the TrilioVault Appliance

After the creation of the TrilioVault Appliance VM is the VM in a shutdown state.

Go to the overview of VMs in the RHV Manager (Compute ➡️ Virtual Machines), identify the TrilioVault Appliance VM in the list, mark it, and click the Run button to start it.

After the first boot of the TrilioVault Appliance is Cloud-Init getting disabled.