Deploy the OVA for EFA

Open Virtual Appliance (OVA) is an OVF file packaged with a base image Ubuntu image and installed with EFA.

Before you begin

The virtual machine (VM) on which you deploy the OVA requires a network adapter with a valid IP address and DNS. You use the IP address when you configure the SLX devices to forward syslog entries to the VM. The VM needs DNS configuration to resolve the URL during setup and forwarding of events to the notification subscriber.
The VM must be able to access devices and the notification subscriber.
For networks without DHCP, you must assign valid, static IP addresses and DNS. Then reboot the VM. Ensure that all services are up and running before running commands.

About this task

OVA is compatible with VMware ESXi servers and can be deployed with VMware products. For more information about supported Ubuntu versions, see Supported Platforms and Deployment Models.

Use the OVA image for new installations only.

Important

Do not use the following IP addresses, which are used by the K3s service:

10.42.0.0/16 subnet
10.43.0.0/16 subnet

Warning

The EFA 2.x.x OVA is not supported for Oracle VirtualBox. The syslog service requires port forwarding for ports 514 and 6514 on UDP. However, the source IP address of the syslog message will be changed from the SLX device to the host IP, which the syslog service ignores.

Procedure

Download the EFA_v2.x.x_<build_number>.ova file.
Run the OVA.
Start the VM.
The credentials for the OVA installation are one of the following:
- User name/Password: ubuntu/ubuntu
- User name/Password: root/dca123
When the VM starts, a start-up script checks whether the IP address of the primary interface eth0 has changed since it was last configured. If the IP address has changed, the script updates the EFA profile and configuration files appropriately and reapplies the K3s application deployment template. This operation takes a few minutes to complete. On subsequent VM reboots, if the IP address has not changed, no operation is performed by the start-up script. The logs are located under /var/log/efa/installer.