Installing SteelHead-v on Nutanix AHV
SteelHead-v is supported on the Nutanix hypervisor. For detailed information about the Nutanix hypervisor, see Nutanix documentation.
Obtaining the SteelHead-v software package
Download the SteelHead-v package for KVM from the Riverbed Support site. The SteelHead-v for KVM package is a tar file that contains these files:
• install.sh—Installation script that creates the RiOS data store disk image and generates an XML specification file, domain.xml, for the SteelHead-v instance.
• mgmt.img—Management disk image in qcow2 format.
• riverbed_model_tmp—Metadata file that contains the specifications for supported SteelHead-v models and that charts the virtual hardware requirements for supported SteelHead-v 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 will change to Succeeded when the upload process is finished.
1. Log in to your Prism web console at https://<IP or 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.
Perform this task 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 SteelHead-v package and confirm that it is available, create a virtual machine capable of hosting your SteelHead-v model. For details about requirements, go to the
product family specification sheet.
1. Log in to your Prism web console at https://<IP or 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 SteelHead-v.
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 SteelHead-v 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 SteelHead-v 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 four NICs, one each for these 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 SteelHead-v instances on your network.
– primary (management)
– auxiliary
– LAN
– WAN
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.
– Choose Home > VM.
– Select the virtual machine.
– Click Power on. You might need to scroll down to bring the Power on button into view.
21. 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 SteelHead-v model.
Performing initial configuration
After you create the virtual machine, it’s time to set up your SteelHead-v 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.
1. Log in to your Prism web console at https://<IP or 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 SteelHead-v’s management IP address.
Configuring SteelHead-v through the Management Console
After you complete the initial configuration steps and obtained your SteelHead-v’s management IP address, you can finish configuring the SteelHead-v through the Management Console.
1. Launch a browser and navigate to your SteelHead-v’s management IP address.
2. Accept the end-user license agreement.
3. Log in to the Management Console. The default username and password are: admin and password.
4. Choose Administration > Maintenance > Licenses.
5. On the Licenses page, if you see a Restart Services link in green, click it to restart services before proceeding.
6. On the Licenses” page, enter your customer key, and then click Update.
7. Under Licenses on this Appliance, enter your licenses. For details about deploying licenses, go to Knowledge Base article
S30770.
8. Click Save to Disk.
9. Click Restart Services if the link is active (green).
10. Choose Networking > Networking > In-Path Interfaces
11. Configure IPv4 under the In-Path Interface settings.
12. Click Apply, and then Save to Disk. You might see an error message that the optimization service not licensed. Ignore this message.
13. Choose Optimization > Networking Services > General Service Settings.
14. Enable In-Path Support.
15. Enable Optimizations on interface inpath0_0.
16. Click Apply, and then Save to Disk.
17. Click Restart Services.
18. Choose Administration > Reboot/Shutdown, and then click Reboot.
19. Verify that the configuration is complete and the system status is Healthy.
Perform this task to verify that the system is healthy:
1. Log in to the Management Console.
2. On the Dashboard page, verify that the system status is Healthy.