Installing AltaVault virtual appliance requires downloading the image from NetApp, configuring the appliance through the Linux KVM Virtual Machine Manager, and powering on the machine.
Steps
- Download the VM package, and then extract it.
- Open the Linux Virtual Machine Manager.
- Click the Create a new virtual machine icon from the File menu.
- In the new VM window, enter a name for the virtual machine, select "Import existing disk image", and then click
Forward.
- Click Browse next to the "Provide the existing storage path" field.
- Click Browse Local.
- Select the .qcow2 file from the extracted files, and then click Open.
- Click Forward.
- In the Choose Memory and CPU settings page, configure the memory size to correspond with the requirements specified in System requirements and supported models.
- Click Forward.
- Select the Customize configuration before install check box.
- Click Advanced options, and then select the bridged network.
- Click Finish.
- In the virtual machine window for your appliance, select Disk 1.
- Set the Storage format to qcow2, and then click Apply.
- Click Add Hardware.
- In the Add New Virtual Hardware dialog box:
- Change the Device type from Storage to IDE Disk.
- Configure the disk size to correspond with the requirements specified in System requirements and supported models.
- Click Finish.
- In the Add New Virtual Hardware dialog box, click Add Hardware.
- To add additional network interface cards (NICs), click Network.
- Click Finish to create the new NIC.
- Repeat Step 19 and 20 to add up to 5 total NICs.
These NICs represent the primary interface and the e0a, e0b, e0c, and e0d data interfaces.
- When you are done adding NICs, click Begin Installation.
- Start the AltaVault virtual machine.