Installation Guide

• What’s New

Introduction

• Overview
• File transfer protocol and commands
• Clustering commands
• Determine the primary node role in a cluster
• Geo-redundancy/redundancy and disaster recovery
• Using the tmux command

Deployment Topologies

• VOSS deployment topologies
• Multi data center deployments
• Clustering
• Network communications between nodes within the cluster
• Network communications external to the cluster

Customer environment cloud-based installation

Details for Azure and AWS cloud installation are available in this section.

Azure Cloud Installation

• Azure Cloud Deployment
  • Hardware Requirements
  • Network Communications External to the Cluster
  • VOSS Azure Deployment Procedure
  • VOSS Platform Config and Template Install Procedure

AWS Cloud Installation

• AWS Deployment
  • Overview
  • Hardware Requirements
  • Network Communications External to the Cluster
  • VOSS AWS Deployment Topology
  • AWS Application Load Balancer Configuration
  • AWS Management Console Deployment Procedure
  • Terraform Deployment Procedure
  • VOSS Platform Config and Template Install Procedure

Customer environment on-premises installation

This section deals with the on-premises installation process.

Prepare to Install

Note

From release 21.4 onwards, VOSS allows for the registration and update of product licenses within the application. A licensing service is installed during installation or upgrade and a license token is associated with the platform on which it is installed.

• Network Docker container range
• Backup size considerations

Hardware Specifications

• VOSS Product suite hardware specifications
  • Overview
  • Unified node hardware specifications
  • Modular cluster hardware specifications
  • Add disks in the AWS or MS Azure cloud hosted platform

Virtualization and hypervisor platforms

• Supported virtualization and hypervisor platforms
• VMWare Esxi 8
  • Requirements
  • Download the OVA file
  • To create the VM
  • What to do if the OVA file is not available for your current version
• Hyper-V
  • Requirements
  • Download the install file
  • Prepare the OS Disk
  • Create the VM
  • Configure the VM
  • Add the required disks
  • Reference: Disk configurations for deployment types
  • Configure the total processors
  • Connect and start the VM
• Nutanix
  • Requirements
  • Download the OVA file
  • To create the VM

Platform Install

• Installation overview
• Platform install on a VM
• Inspect the logs to troubleshoot installation

Unified Node Topology Installation

• Installation Quick Reference
• Multinode installation
• Single-node cluster (cluster-of-one) installation
• View Installation and Upgrade Transactions
• Migrating from a 6 Node to 8 Node System

Modular Cluster Topology Installation

• Modular architecture multinode installation

Collector (Netflow) Server Installation

Netflow Management

• DS9 for Netflow: Infrastructure prep and installation parameters
• Prepare a production environment for Netflow
• DS-9 Netflow VM sizing specifications
• Netflow and DS9 monitoring system connectivity
• Download DS9
• Insights DS9 for Netflow product registration
• Deploy and VM installation

Virtualization and hypervisor platforms

• Supported virtualization and hypervisor platforms
• VMWare Esxi 8
  • Requirements
• Hyper-V
  • Download the install file
  • Prepare the OS Disk
  • Create the VM
  • Configure the VM
  • Connect and start the Virtual Machine
• Nutanix
  • Download the install file
  • Upload the OS Disk and Data Disk (DS9 Only)
  • Create the VM
  • Increase the OS Disk and Data Disk (DS9 Only) size
  • Power the VM on and launch the console
  • Update the OS Disk size (Arbitrator and Dashboard)
  • Update the Data Disk Size (DS9)

Collector (Arbitrator) Installation

UC Monitoring

• Arbitrator Install Guide
• Agent Configuration
• Credential Configuration
• Access Control