Spinning up the TrilioVault VM
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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.
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.
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.
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
There are no TrilioVault specific configurations necessary in any further tab.
After the creation of the TrilioVault Appliance VM is the VM in a shutdown state.
Once the TrilioVault Appliance VM is running, an initial network configuration is needed, which requires a login onto the Operating System of the TrilioVault Appliance.
Please request the initial password of the TrilioVault Appliance operating system root user from Trilio Customer Success.
The TrilioVault VM is using a standard CentOS 7 as Operating System. Configuration of the network, works as usual.
Use ip a to get a list of all available network interfaces.
Edit the interface config files according to the desired network connection. The following command shows the example for the interface eth0.
vi /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0
Fill out the network configuration lines, following the example below:
BOOTPROTO=none
DEVICE=eth0
ONBOOT=yes
TYPE=Ethernet
IPADDR=30.30.1.10
NETMASK=255.255.0.0
GATEWAY=30.30.1.1
DNS1=30.30.1.1
Write and close the interface configuration file.
The interface configured needs to be restarted using the following commands.
ifdown eth0
ifup eth0
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.