Requirements
- Hardware (recommended): Disk = 5 GB (thin provisioning)
(or 800 GB using thick provisioning)
- Hardware (recommended): Memory = 12 GB
- Hardware (recommended): vCPUs = 4
- Hardware (recommended): Process Cycles = 9572 MHz
- Virtual Infrastructure: vSphere 5.5+
- Software: Clustered
ONTAP 8.2+
- Software: Browser - IE 11, Chrome 41 and 42, Firefox
ESR 24 and 31, Safari 7
- Software: Browser client - Windows 7 and 8, OSX 10.8
and 10.9
- Inbound Port:
80 to Performance Manager GUI
(redirects to 443)
- Inbound
Port: 443 to Performance Manager GUI
and APIs
- Inbound
Port: 22 for SSH/SFTP to maintenance
console
- Outbound
Port: 443 to Storage Systems
- Outbound
Port: 443 to AutoSupport (or via
SMTP)
- Outbound Port:
25 to SMTP Server
- Outbound Port:
389 to Authentication Server (LDAP)
- Outbound
Port: 2003 to Graphite Server for
performance data (Optional)
- Outbound
Port: 123 (UDP) to NTP Server
- Scalability with
8.3+: (Total LUNs x 2) + Total Volumes =< 202’000
Information
Required to Complete Basic Setup
1) Deploying the
OVF template in vSphere
- Name for the deployed template
- Destination storage for virtual machine files
- Disk Format: Thin Provision/ Thick Provision Lazy
Zeroed/ Thick Provision Eager Zeroed
- VM Network for Network Adapter 1
2) Configuring OPM
on first boot
- Timezone (Geographic Area & City or Region)
- DHCP or Static Network Configuration?
- Use IPv6?
- Enter the host FQDN:
- Enter the host IP address:
- Enter the network mask:
- Enter the IP address of the default gateway:
- Enter the primary DNS address:
- Enter the secondary DNS address:
Note: Setup
discovers a DNS search domain from the FQDN provided above
- Enter additional search domains (Optional):
- Username (for new maintenance user):
- Password (UNIX password for new maintenance user):
3) Initial Setup
in the Web UI
- Maintenance User Email Address
- SMTP Server: Host Name or IP Address
- SMTP Server: Port (usually 25)
- SMTP Server: User Name (optional)
- SMTP Server: Password (optional)
- SMTP Server: Use STARTTLS?
- SMTP Server: Use SSL?
- NTP Server
- Enable AutoSupport?
- Clusters to add to OPM and their user name and password
Install
Walkthrough
1) Download the OVA file from support.netapp.com
2) Deploy the OVA template into vSphere
3) Power on and follow the Console output
3.1) When prompted to install VMware Tools, use the
vSphere Client/vSphere Web Client, to install VMware Tools
Image 1: OPM
waiting for VMware Tools Install/Upgrade initialization via the vSphere Client
Image 2: vSphere
Client 5.5 Install/Upgrade VMware Tools
3.2) Configure the timezone
Image 3:
Configuring tzdata
3.3) Apply the network configuration and confirm the
selections
Image 4: OPM - DHCP
or static?
Image 5: Confirming
OPM static network configuration
3.4) When prompted, supply username and password for the
maintenance user
Image 6: OPM -
Create the maintenance user
3.5) Basic setup complete! Configuration continues via
the Web UI.
Image 7: OPM 2.0
basic setup complete!
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