This section gives detailed instructions for provisioning a Service Point v4 instance using vCenter Server and ESXi.
Prerequisites:
- You must be running VMware ESXi v6.7
- You have an operational vCenter Server
- vCenter Server already has a datacenter
- You have an operational ESXi deployment
- vCenter Server and ESXi are able to contact each other
- Log in to the Edge Cloud Instance.
- In the top navigation bar, click
and select Service Points (v4).
- Click
on the Service Points (v4) page. The Download service point image window appears.
- From the drop-down menu, select VMware
- Click
next to Image to download the Service Point v4 OVA image.
Note: You can use the same OVA image to provision multiple Service Point v4 instances. - Click
next to Checksum to download the Service Point v4 OVA image checksum file.
Note: The checksum value is a SHA-256 hash of the image file.
Configuring Service Pointv4 configuration details:
- To add a new Service Point v4 instance, click
on the Service points (v4) page.
- Under Setup, enter the following information:
- Name: enter the name of the new service point.
- Description: add a description. This is optional.
- Under Type, select VMware from the drop-down menu.
- Under Network, enter the following information:
- Enter the hostname of the service point.
- Enter the IPv4 address of the service point in CIDR notation.
- Enter the IPv4 address of the default gateway for the service point IP
address.Attention: You must enter an IPv4 default gateway when configuring a service point.
- (Optional) Enter the IPv6 address of the service point in CIDR notation.
- (Optional) Enter the IPv6 address of the default gateway for the service
point IP address.Note: If you are configuring an IPv6 address for the service point, you must also enter an IPv6 default gateway.
- (Optional) Enter the IP addresses of any DNS servers that the service point will use. If you do not configure any DNS servers, the service point will use 8.8.8.8 as the default DNS server.
- (Optional) Enter the IP address or FQDN of any NTP servers that the Service
Point v4 VM will use. If you do not configure any NTP servers, the Service
Point v4 VM will use the following default Debian NTP servers:
0.debian.pool.ntp.org
1.debian.pool.ntp.org
2.debian.pool.ntp.org
3.debian.pool.ntp.org
- Under Access, enter the following information:Note:
- The SSH Public Key and VM Console Password fields are mandatory and must be filled out to provision the Service Point v4 VM.
- The SSH Public Key and VM Console Password are applied to the operations user account.
- SSH Public Key: Enter the SSH public key of the
service point. You can use an existing key pair by entering the content of
the public key in the field, or generate a new key pair and enter the
content of the newly created public key in the field.
This adds the public key to the .ssh directory of the Service Point v4 VM and allows you to SSH into the service point. Once you have provisioned the service point, you can access the service point using SSH and the associated private key to log into the operations user account.
- VM Console Password: Enter the console password for
the service point. The password must meet the following requirements:
- It must contain lowercase characters.
- It must contain uppercase characters.
- It must contain numbers.
- It must contain symbols.
- It must not contain spaces.
- It must contain at least 12 characters.
- Confirm Password: Confirm the console password for the service point entered in the VM Console Password field.
- (Optional) Under HTTP Proxy, enter the following
information:
- Enter the hostname of the proxy that the Service Point v4 VM will use.
- (Optional) Add the port number used to connect to the proxy server. By default, the value is 443.
- (Optional) Enter the username and password that will be used to authenticate against the proxy server.
- Click Save and Download. A window appears where you can download the configuration file.
- Click Download Configuration to download the configuration
file.Attention:
- The configuration file of the service point can only be downloaded once
and cannot be recovered later. The configuration file is a JSON file
that contains content that is compressed and base64 encoded, and can
contain sensitive information such as HTTP proxy credentials.
BlueCat strongly recommends storing the configuration file in a secure location and only storing the configuration file for as long as required. The configuration file should be securely destroyed when it is no longer in use.
- The contents of the configuration file can only be used to provision a single Service Point v4 VM. To provision another service point, you must create a new Service Point v4 using the Edge UI or API, and download a new configuration file.
- The configuration file of the service point can only be downloaded once
and cannot be recovered later. The configuration file is a JSON file
that contains content that is compressed and base64 encoded, and can
contain sensitive information such as HTTP proxy credentials.
- Log in to your vCenter UI instance.
- Navigate to the folder in which you would like to install the service point.
- Right click on the folder and select provision OVF Template.
- Complete the installation Wizard and create your virtual machine.Note:
- It can take up to 10 minutes for the Service Point v4 OVA image to upload and for the VM to successfully provision.
- Once the VM is provisioned, ensure that it is Powered Off before proceeding to modify the settings.
- Once the VM is provisioned, right click the VM instance name and select .
- Click Add Configuration Params.
- Add the following parameters:
Name Value guestinfo.metadata <value of metadata
field from the JSON configuration file>Note: The value of this field in the configuration file is already base64 encoded. Copy the value within the double quotes of themetadata
field and paste it within the parameter value as is. The value must not include the double quotes (" ").guestinfo.userdata <value of userdata
field from the JSON configuration file>Note: The value of this field in the configuration file is already base64 encoded. Copy the value within the double quotes of theuserdata
field and paste it within the parameter value as is. The value must not include the double quotes (" ").guestinfo.metadata.encoding gzip+base64 guestinfo.userdata.encoding gzip+base64 - Press OK to save the settings.
- Power on the Service Point v4 VM.
Once the service point has powered on, you can verify the status of the service point by checking the details on the Service points (v4) page. The Status field on the service point details page displays Registered when the Service Point v4 VM has successfully connected to the Edge Cloud Instance.
Once you have provisioned the Service Point v4 VM, you can deploy DNS resolver service. For more information, refer to DNS resolver services.
For more information on the Service Point v4 telemetry APIs, refer to Service Point v4 Telemetry APIs.