About Microsoft Azure deployments
The information here describes deployment through Azure’s Resource Manager wizard. Appliances can be deployed through Azure’s programmatic deployment mode, but that is not covered in this document. See the Azure documentation for details about that mode.
Resources deployed through different deployment modes cannot interoperate. Select the deployment mode that matches the rest of your infrastructure in Azure.
The default password is password regardless of the value you specified while provisioning or creating the Client Accelerator Controller from the Azure marketplace image. You can change the password after you provision the appliance. This caveat is only applicable for Client Accelerator Controller appliances provisioned from Azure marketplace.
Out-of-path deployments using fixed-target rules are supported.
In Azure, NAT rules to a virtual machine are very aggressive. These rules can cause frequent failures of the inner connection pool. To avoid this issue, enter this command to configure your client-side appliances that peer with a Cloud Accelerator in Azure so that their inner keepalive interval is 30 seconds or less:
protocol connection addr <azure-sh-ip> inner-intvl 30 oob-intvl 30
For enhanced security, enable TCP proxy on the appliance under Networking > Host Settings.
If you are using the appliance together with the Cloud Portal, the appliance must have continuous access to the portal in order to verify that the license is active. If the Cloud Accelerator cannot contact the portal, it stops acceleration and bypasses connections until it reconnects.
Deploying on Azure
For first-time login to the appliance, use the password you specify here along with the username admin. After initial login, you can change your credentials at any time.
1. Log in to the Microsoft Azure portal and search for the product you want.
2. Create a new instance. You’ll need to specify values for the basics, disks, and networking. Optionally, configure management, monitoring, advanced, and tag settings.
3. Enter basic details such as subscription model and resource group. Create a new resource group, if needed.
4. Enter basic instance details such as a display name for the virtual appliance, region where you want to deploy it, availability options, and security type.
5. Select an image, and specify a virtual machine architecture.
6. Select a size for the virtual machine. The size determines the maximum amount of compute resources (CPU, RAM memory) available to the virtual machine.
7. Create an administrator account, and specify SSH details.
8. Specify the OS disk details type for the appliance’s management disk. Optionally, enable Ultra SSD compatibility.
9. Specify data disk details for the appliance’s data store. Ensure host caching is set to read/write.
10. Specify networking details such as network and subnet. Optionally, select a public IP address. A public IP enables you to communicate with the appliance from outside the virtual network. The network interface card (NIC) network security group is Advanced. NIC network security group settings are preconfigured.
11. Ensure accelerated networking is disabled. Accelerated networking is not supported.
12. Do not enable load balancing.
13. Optionally, configure management, monitoring, advanced, and tags settings.
14. Review your selections, and then create the instance.