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ExtremeCloud IQ Virtual Appliance

ExtremeCloud IQ Virtual Appliance

Install and configure a IQ Virtual Appliance .

IQ Virtual Appliance is a deployment option for the Extreme Networks next-generation, enterprise-class, cloud-enabled network management solution. Instead of being housed in the Extreme Networks Cloud Services Platform, customers have the ability to deploy the IQ Virtual Appliance on company premises as a single virtual machine. The NMS features are essentially the same as ExtremeCloud IQ, but with the added installation and administration features specific to a virtual appliance deployment. This type of deployment allows greater control over customer data, improves data transfer performance, eases management, and offers more flexibility for customization of hardware and software components.

Low-Capacity Virtual Machine Recommendations

Recommended minimum hardware requirements for deploying a total of 500 APs or switches:

High-Capacity Virtual Machine Recommendations

The IQ Virtual Appliance OVA defaults to the high-capacity version.

Recommended minimum hardware requirements for deploying a total of 5000 APs or switches:

Note

IQ Virtual Appliance does not support storage area networks (SAN).

VMware Installation Requirements

Ensure that VMware vSphere 5.5 or later is installed on a server.

Deploying the IQ Virtual Appliance requires that you do the following:

• Ensure that your virtualization infrastructure has the capacity to support the requirements specified earlier.
• Obtain a IQ Virtual Appliance permanent license or use an evaluation license.

Note

You can also use the current entitlement key for your HM Classic virtual appliance license.

• Perform the 4-step workflow process to configure the initial IQ Virtual Appliance login settings.

• Configure a static IP address for your IQ Virtual Appliance and set up a hostname in DNS for that IP address.

Note

To ensure availability of IQ Virtual Appliance, always configure it with a static IP address.

Before continuing, ensure that your DNS server is correctly mapping the host name to the IP address, and the IP address to the host name. To do so from a Windows workstation, open the Command Prompt, and then enter the following commands:

> nslookup host_name

If the console does not return the IP address of the IQ Virtual Appliance, then either the host name you entered is incorrect or the DNS server is not mapping properly.

> nslookup ip_address

If the console does not return the host name of the IQ Virtual Appliance, then either the IP address you entered is incorrect or the DNS server is not mapping properly.