Before you begin

Before you begin, ensure the following:

• vSphere Client for desktop is installed on the server 

• The OVA is downloaded on the same machine as the vSphere Client or a location accessible from the system

• You have the following information:

  • vCenter credentials

  • Web proxy credentials (If you use a Web proxy in your environment).

  • Activation token. For more information see, Generate activation token.

  • IP settings.

Note: If you use an HTML5 Web client for proxy deployment, you'd need to enter 'j.proxy type' in the HTTP field under Web Proxy Settings as a hard value even if there is no Web proxy. The proxy will not power on post-deployment without this value.

To deploy the OVA

1. Log on to vCenter Server using vSphere Client. 

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

3. In the Deploy from a file or URL box, type or select the full path to the OVF template that you downloaded, and click Next.
    

4. Verify the OVF template details, and click Next. 

5. Click Accept to accept the End User License Agreement (EULA), and click Next. 

6. In the Name box, type a name for the template.
   Under Inventory Location, expand or collapse the inventory tree, click a location, and click Next.
   
   

7. Select a host or a cluster on which you want to deploy Linux CloudCache, and click Next.
   
   

8. From the list of resource pools, click the resource pool that you want to assign to this virtual machine, and click Next.

9. Select destination storage, and click Next.
   If you created storage profiles, click the storage profile that you want to assign to the virtual machine.
   From the list of storage, click storage that you want to set as destination storage for this virtual machine.
   
   

10. Select a provisioning format, and click Next.

    • Thick Provisioned Lazy Zeroed: If you select this format, a thick virtual disk is created, and the existing data is lazy zeroed (existing data on the provisioned storage are cleared when the virtual machine writes to the storage for the first time). 

    • Thick Provisioned Eager Zeroed: If you select this format, a thick virtual disk is created, and the existing data is eager zeroed (existing data on the provisioned storage is overwritten with zeroes at the time of creating the virtual machine).

    • Thin Provisioned: If you select this format, a thin virtual disk is created.
      
      
      Note: You can change the disk type to Thin Provision to save storage space.
      Note: Linux CloudCache uses the default network mapping settings of the vCenter Server 

11. Select the source and destination network and click Next.
    
    

12. On the Properties screen, provide the following details:
    
    
     

13. Click Next.

14. To start the virtual machine after deployment, select Power on after deployment.

15. Verify the summary, and click Finish.

16. You can now configure the CloudCache. See, Configure CloudCache.

Option 2:  Deploy QCOW2 image for CloudCache 

Before you begin

On the downloads page, locate the tarball containing the QCOW2 images. The file name for this tarball will be as follows:

DruvaPhoenixCloudCacheQCow2.tar.gz

Once you have downloaded the tarball, unzip it to extract the following images:

• DruvaPhoenixCloudCache-OSDisk.qcow2 - Image for the operating system disk.

• DruvaPhoenixCloudCache-DataDisk.qcow2 - Image for the data disk.

 Upload these images to the Nutanix Hypervisor as follows:

1. Log in to  Prism Element

2. Expand the main navigation menu and select Settings.

3. Select Image Configuration.

4. Click the Upload Image button, specify the required settings for the OS disk and click Save.

5. Repeat the above steps for the data disk.

Once the image is uploaded, proceed to create the virtual machine.

Procedure

1.   Select Create VM option from Prism Element.

2. Enter a name for the VM. This name differs from the hostname and is only for management purposes from Prism Element.
   

3. Enter the CPUs and RAM as per System Requirements.

4. Under the Disks section, select Add New Disk.
   
   

5. Select the Type as Disk, Operation as Clone from Image Service,  and then select the OS image.
   
   

6. Add another disk for storing data. From the Image, select the Disk image.
   
   

7. Click Save

8. Click Add NIC. Verify the Subnet name and click Add.

9. Finally, click Save.

10. For the next step, proceed to Step 4: Configure and activate CloudCache.

Option 3:  Install .deb package for CloudCache

CloudCache installer is available as a Debian package on the Downloads page. You can install it on a Ubuntu machine that meets the System Requirements.

Once you have downloaded the .deb package to the server where you want to set up CloudCache, run the following command to install CloudCache as root:

dpkg -i <CloudCache-packge-file.deb>

Replace <CloudCache-packge-file.deb> with the actual file name downloaded.

After installation is complete, move on Download, install, and activate CloudCache R3 on Linux.

Web  Proxy Setup 

Enter 1 to begin setting up web proxy credentials.

You can configure a Web proxy for your environment. To set up the Web proxy, provide the following details:

• Proxy Type: We support HTTP, socks4, and socks5 proxies.

• Proxy Server IP: Valid IP and port of the proxy server. Enter the  IP and port, separated with a colon. For example, to use the IP 11.11.11.11 and port 21, enter the following:

  • 11.11.11.11:21

• Username: Valid proxy username. For a proxy that does not require authentication, enter *. 

• Password: Valid proxy password. For a proxy that does not require authentication, enter *.

Timezone 

After selecting the TimeZone option, you will see the following options:

Select 1 to list the available time zones. You can select a time zone from these options and set it for this CloudCache machine.

Configure Network 

Select option 3 from the main screen of the Cloudcache_Conf utility. You can view and perform the following actions from this screen:

• List available network interfaces

• See Details of a network interface

• Change interface settings such as:

  • Static IP address. Static IP addresses also require the following configurations:

    • Netmask 

    • Gateway

    • Primary DNS

    • Secondary DNS

    • Domain

  • Dynamic IP address

Hostname 

Select option 4 on the main screen to view and change the hostname as follows:

Do not enter a special character or space in the hostname. 

Activate CloudCache 

Select option 5 from the main screen of Cloudcache_Conf to activate CloudCache. 

Select option 1, and you will see the prompt to enter the activation token as follows:

Paste in the activation token, which you copied in Step 2: Generate the activation token.

After you paste the activation token, you will see the confirmation message:

> Successfully activated cloudcache.

 Activate Linux CloudCache using the terminal 

The Linux CloudCache is activated as part of the OVA deployment. However, you can activate the Linux CloudCache using the command line,  should the activation fail during the deployment. Once the OVA deployment is complete, you can log in to the virtual machine using the following credentials:

• Username: root

• Password: druvaphoenix

Launch the terminal on the virtual machine, and execute the following command to activate the Linux CloudCache:

• For R1:
  • PhoenixActivate <Token>
• For R3:
  • EnterpriseWorkloadsAgent cloudcache activate --token <Token>

Where <Token> is the activation token copied from the Management Console in Step 2.