NVP vProxy: How to deploy NVP vProxy in NetWorker 9.1

How to deploy NVP vProxy OVA on an ESXi host in NetWorker 9.1.

Perform the following steps to deploy the OVA for the vProxy host from an ESXi host.

Procedure:

1. Log in to the ESXi host with an administrator account.

2. From the File menu, select Deploy OVF Template.

3. On the Source window, type a URL path to the OVA package or click Browse and navigate to the OVA package location, and then click Next.

4. On the OVF Template Details window, review the details, and then click Next.

5. On the Name and Location window, specify a name for the virtual appliance, and optionally the inventory location, for example a datacenter or VM folder. Click Next.

6. If the location you selected in the previous step has more than one available host, the Host/Cluster window appears. Select the ESXi host or cluster on which you want to deploy the virtual appliance, and then click Next.

7. On the Resource Pool window, perform one of the following tasks, and then click Next. When you deploy the virtual appliance in a cluster with multiple hosts, select the specific host in the cluster on which to deploy the virtual appliance.

   Note: If DRS is enabled, the target host is automatically selected. When you deploy the virtual appliance on a host with a resource pool or vApp, select the resource pool or vApp on which to deploy the virtual appliance.

8. On the Storage window, select the destination datastore on which to store the virtual appliance files, and then click Next.

9. On the Disk Format window, select the disk format.
   EMC recommends that you select Thick Provision Lazy Zeroed to ensure that the amount of storage space allocated to the virtual appliance is available.

10. On the Network Mapping window, select the Source and Destination networks to use with the appliance, and then click Next.

11. On the Ready to Complete window, review the deployment configuration details. If you will immediately configure the appliance, select "Power on" after deployment, and then click Finish.

The Deploying window appears and provides status information about the deployment.

Configuring the network settings:
After deploying the vProxy appliance on the ESXi host, configure the network settings from a console window.

Procedure:

1. From the vSphere client application, open a console window on the vProxy appliance

   Or

   Use ssh to connect to the appliance from a host that has network access to the vProxy appliance.

2. Log in to the appliance with the root account.

   The default password for the root account is "changeme"

3. Use the /opt/emc/vproxy/bin/config_network.sh command to configure the network settings.

   For example:

   /opt/emc/vproxy/bin/config_network.sh fqdn IP address netmask gateway "dns_server1, dns_server2, ... dns_serverN"

   Where:
   Fqdn is the Fully Qualified Domain Name of the appliance.

   IP address is the IP address of the appliance.

   The netmask is the netmask of the appliance.

   Gateway is the name or IP address of the gateway host.

   "dns_server1, dns_server2, ... dns_serverN" is a comma-separated list of IP addresses or hostnames for the DNS servers, enclosed in quotes.

   The config_network.sh man page provides more information about how to use the config_network.sh command.