Installing the Controller on Nutanix AHV
The Client Accelerator Controller-v is supported on Nutanix AHV. The appliance image for Nutanix AHV is an installable kernel-based virtual machine (KVM) package. The KVM package provides a complete specification for the appliance, including its required virtual disks, CPU, memory, networking, and storage.
Before you begin, read the release notes for the product on the Riverbed Support site. They contain important information about this release.
About the installation package for Nutanix AHV
Download the KVM package for Client Accelerator Controller-v from the site. The KVM package is a tar file that contains these files:
• install.sh—Installation script that creates the appliance’s data store disk image and generates an XML specification file, domain.xml, for the appliance instance.
• mgmt.img—Management disk image in qcow2 format.
• riverbed_model_tmp—Metadata file that contains the specifications for supported appliance models and that charts the virtual hardware requirements for supported appliance models.
To download the package from the Riverbed Support site, go to
https://support.riverbed.com. Access to software downloads requires registration.
After you have downloaded the package, extract its contents to obtain the mgmt.qcow2 image file.
Uploading the package to Nutanix AHV
It might take several minutes to upload the image file. You can check the progress of the upload task by selecting Home > Tasks. The task status changes to Succeeded when the upload process is finished.
To upload a package to Nutanix AHV
1. Log in to your Prism web console at https://{<ip-address> | <hostname>}:9440/.
2. Choose Home > Settings.
3. Select Image Configuration, and then click Upload Image.
4. Enter a name for the image.
5. Select DISK from the Image Type menu.
6. Click Upload a file, and then click Choose a file.
7. Browse to the mgmt.qcow2 file and select it.
8. Click Open.
9. Click Save.
10. Confirm that the image is available and that its status is Active.
To confirm the image status
1. Choose Home > Settings.
2. Click Image Configuration.
3. Verify the image’s status is Active.
Creating the Nutanix virtual machine
After you upload the image and confirm that it is available, create a virtual machine capable of hosting your Client Accelerator model. For details about requirements, go to the
product family specification sheet.
To create a virtual machine
1. Log in to your Prism web console at https://{<ip-address> | <hostname>}:9440/.
2. Choose Home > VM.
3. Click Create VM.
4. Under General Configuration, enter a name, description, and time zone.
5. Under Computer Details, enter the following information:
– Number of virtual CPUs.
– Number of cores per virtual CPU.
6. Under Disks, click Add new disk. This disk will serve as the management disk for the appliance.
7. Select DISK from the Type menu.
8. Select Clone from Image Service from the Operation menu.
9. Select PCI from the Bus Type menu.
10. Select the image from the Image menu.
11. Click Add.
12. Under Set Boot Priority, select the newly added disk. Ensure that you expand the disk to a size that meets the minimum disk size requirements for the management disk for your appliance model. For details about expanding disk size, go to Knowledge Base article
S29147.
13. Add a management disk, selecting these options:
– PCI from the Type menu.
– Allocate on storage container from the Operation menu.
– An available storage container with adequate space to host your data store disk.
– A disk size that minimum disk size requirements for the data store disk for your appliance model.
– Next available from the Index menu.
14. Click Add.
15. Under Network Adapters (NIC), click Add New NIC. You need to add a total of two NICs, one each for the primary (management) and auxiliary interfaces. Create the primary, or management, NIC first. Ensure that the VLAN IDs for the LAN and WAN interfaces are different from each other, and that those VLAN IDs are not used by any other virtual machine instances on your network.
16. Select the appropriate subnet for the NIC you are creating.
17. Click Add.
18. Click Save to save your configuration and create the virtual machine.
19. Verify that the virtual machine was properly created and is available.
20. Power on the virtual machine.
To verify virtual machine creation
• Choose Home > Tasks, and then verify that the virtual machine creation task is complete and that the virtual machine resources meet the minimum requirements for your appliance model.
To power on the virtual machine
1. Choose Home > VM.
2. Select the virtual machine.
3. Click Power on. You might need to scroll down to bring the Power on button into view.
Performing initial configuration
After you create the virtual machine, it’s time to set up your appliance by running the initial configuration wizard.
This procedure assumes you will configure DHCP during the initial configuration and that a DHCP server is available on the Nutanix cluster and that the primary interface is mapped to that DHCP network.
To perform initial configuration
1. Log in to your Prism web console at https://{<ip-address> | <hostname>}:9440/.
2. Choose Home > VM.
3. Ensure that the virtual machine is powered on, and then select it. If the virtual machine is not powered on, power it on now.
4. Click Launch Console. You might need to scroll down to bring the Power on button into view.
5. At the console, press Enter to boot from disk. The boot process can take up to several minutes. After the boot process mounts the file systems, the system reboot.
6. At the login screen, log in to the Management Console using these default credentials: admin and password.
7. At the configuration wizard, answer each prompt according to your needs.
8. When complete, press Enter to save your settings and enter the command-line interface (CLI).
9. At the CLI prompt, run the enable command.
10. Run the show interface primary command to discover the appliance’s management IP address.