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Foglight Evolve 9.2 - Foglight Evolve Virtual Appliance Installation and Setup Guide

Download the virtual appliance

To download the virtual appliance:
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Download the Foglight-Evolve-vApp- xLarge, large, or small, as needed.
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Unzip the compressed (.zip) file to a Windows® server or workstation.
The zipped file contains the OVF file and five VMDK files.
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Copy the files to a location that is accessible to the VMware® vSphere® Client.

Next step: Deploy the virtual appliance

Deploy the virtual appliance

To deploy the virtual appliance:
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Open the VMware® vSphere® Client and click File > Deploy OVF Template.
The Deploy OVF Template wizard appears.
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Click Browse to navigate to the location of the extracted OVF file and select it. Click Next.
3
On the OVF Template Details page, verify the Product and Version number. Click Next.
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On the End User License Agreement page, review the license agreement, click Accept, then click Next.
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On the Name and Location page, type a name for the virtual appliance, and select a destination folder. Click Next.
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On the Resource Pool page, select a location within the infrastructure hierarchy. Click Next.
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On the Storage page, select the datastore in which that the virtual machine (VM) should reside. Click Next.
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On the Disk Format page, select the type of datastore provisioning.
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Thick Provision Lazy Zeroed: Creates a virtual disk in a default thick format.
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Thick Provision Eager Zeroed: Creates a type of thick virtual disk that supports clustering features, such as Fault Tolerance.
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Thin Provision: Creates a disk in thin format.
 
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NOTE: Use the “Thin Provision” format if you do not want to use the maximum disk space at deployment, and save on storage space.
NOTE: The “Thick Provision Eager Zeroed” format provides about a 10 percent performance improvement over the other two disk formats. VMware recommends that you select the thick provisioned eager-zero option, when possible.
NOTE: Snapshots can negatively affect the performance of a virtual machine and typically result in a 25-30 percent degradation for the vCenter® workload. VMware recommends that you do not use “Snapshots”.
Click Next.
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On the Network Mapping page, map your existing virtual networks to the ones in the deployed template, and then click Next.
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Internal Network: Private network for virtual appliance components to communicate with each other. If you need to have several Foglight-Evolve-vApp virtual appliances running, you must create the dedicated internal network for every vApp (with different names).
To set up the dedicated internal network for every vApp, you must manually reconfigure the static IP of the newer vApp VMs, and change the DBS Internal IP address in the FMS VM configuration file.
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Reconfigure static IPs for both FMS and DBS VMs for the second NIC which is packaged with 192.168.200.1 and 192.168.200.2 IP to a different value. For details, see Change the network settings.
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Change the DB IP in the FMS VMs server.config file to the one set for the DBS VM. Change the line Server.databse.hostwith the new IP in the /home/foglight/Quest/Foglight/config/server.config file.
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External Network: Public network to collect data from the virtual environment.
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NOTE: The external and internal networks should be configured on the same ESX host. Also the internal network name should be unique inside vCenter® (only one ESX has such network name).
If you have only one network, you can assign the same network to the template networks, but only one vApp copy can run in such environment.
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On the Properties page, select a time zone to set inside Guest OS. Select Yes to enable FIPS Compliance Mode. Also, implement the following network settings:
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FMS VM IP Address: IP address for the FMS VM interface. Leave this field blank when using DHCP.
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VM Netmask: Netmask for the vApps VMs. Leave this field blank when using DHCP.
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Default Gateway: Default gateway address for the vApps VMs.
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DNS: Domain name servers for the vApps VMs (separated by a semicolon).
Click Next.
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Review the deployment settings and click Finish.
When the deployment process is complete, the vApp appears as a virtual machine in the inventory.

Next step: Power on and initialize the virtual appliance

Power on and initialize the virtual appliance

After installing the OVF, you must power on and initialize the virtual machines.

To initialize the virtual appliance:
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Open vCenter®, select the Foglight-Evolve-vApp that you installed, then click Power on the vApp.
For Foglight Evolve: Once the appliance is started, it initializes the operating systems on both virtual machines, and starts Foglight Evolve. By default, Pool.ntp.org is used as the Network Time Protocol (NTP) server.
For Foglight for Storage Management: Once the appliance is started, it initializes the operating systems on both virtual machines, and starts Foglight for Storage Management. By default, Pool.ntp.org is used as the Network Time Protocol (NTP) server.
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Wait until the IP address of Foglight Evolve appears in the vCenter Summary tab.
After the IP address appears, it will take several more minutes to start the application server.
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Once that is completed, access Foglight Evolve / Foglight for Storage Management by copying the IP address (either with or without “:8080”) on a standard web browser.
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If DHCP is present, the FMS VM acquires an IP address. If you want to assign a static IP address, follow the instruction in the Change the network settings section.
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If you already have other Foglight-Evolve-vApp or FVE-vApp running on the Host/Cluster, you must manually reconfigure the static IP of the newer vApp VMs, and change the DBS Internal IP address in the FMS VM configuration file.
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Reconfigure static IPs for both FMS and DBS VMs for the second NIC which is packaged with 192.168.200.1 and 192.168.200.2 IP to a different value. For details, see Change the network settings.
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Change the DB IP in the FMS VMs server.config file to the one set for the DBS VM. Change the line Server.databse.host with the new IP in the /home/foglight/Quest/Foglight/config/server.config file.
To stop the virtual appliance:
Open vCenter®, select Foglight-Evolve-vApp from the navigation tree, and click Power off vApp.

Next step: Configure the virtual appliance

Configure the virtual appliance

To begin using Foglight Evolve, open a standard web browser and type the IP address of the Foglight Evolve virtual machine. For a list of validated web browsers, see the System Requirements and Platform Support Guide.

The page loads and requests a user name and password. The default user name is foglight and the default password is foglight.

Start monitoring your environment:

To collect data from a vCenter®, create at least one VMware® Performance agent, using the Foglight for VMware cartridge automatically installed with Foglight Evolve. For detailed instructions about this topic, see the Managing Virtualized Environments User and Reference Guide, “Configuring Monitoring Agents for Data Collection” section.
To collect data from the storage devices in your environment, you must configure StorageCollector agents, using the Storage & SAN/Storage Environment/Administration dashboard. For more information, refer to the Foglight for Storage Management User and Reference Guide.
To collect data from Hyper-V servers in your environment, you must create Hyper-V Performance agents, using the Foglight for Hyper-V cartridge automatically installed with Foglight Evolve. For more information, refer to the Foglight for Hyper-V User and Reference Guide.

Next step: If you need to change the static IP address of the FMS VM, see Change the network settings.

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