You can deploy VMware Skyline Health Diagnostics using a pre-configured OVA image.

Deploying new instance of VMware Skyline Health Diagnostics virtual appliance.

Prerequisites

  • Verify that you have downloaded the OVA image for VMware Skyline Health Diagnostics.

  • Verify that you can access vSphere infrastructure with privileges required for creating and interacting with virtual machines.

  • Verify that you have network configuration details for the virtual appliance being deployed.

Procedure

  1. Using the vSphere Client connected to vCenter Server, right-click the destination you want to deploy the VMware Skyline Health Diagnostics virtual appliance. For example, a datacenter, cluster, or host.
  2. Click Deploy OVF Template to start the deployment wizard.
  3. Perform the followings steps:
    1. On the Select an OVF template page, select Local file, and click Upload files.
    2. On the Open dialog page, navigate to the OVA file, click Open, and click Next.
  4. On the Select a name and folder page, in the Virtual machine name text box, enter the name for Skyline Health Diagnostics virtual appliance.
  5. [Optional] Select the destination folder for the virtual machine and click Next.
  6. On the Select a compute resource page, select the destination compute resource and click Next.
  7. On the Review details page, review the settings and click Next.
  8. On the License agreements page, accept the license agreement and click Next.
  9. On the Select storage page, select the destination storage and optionally format and storage policy and click NEXT.
  10. Select the Port group to which you want the appliance to connect and click NEXT.
  11. On the Customize template page, configure following settings and click Next.

    Note on Password

    The password must contain at least 8 characters, have characters from at least 2 classes from Group 1 (lowercase alphabet, uppercase alphabet and numbers) and at least 1 character from the class group 2 (Special Characters)

    • Valid Character Class Group 1: [a-z], [A-Z], [0-9]

    • Valid Character Class Group 2: [~!@#$%^&]

    For example,

    • Thi1sISV@lid

    • ThisIsVali$Too

    • ThisisnotVal1d

    1. Enter a strong password for root user account (OS User).
    2. Enter a strong password for shd-admin user account.

      Same password rules as applicable for root user account applies here.

    3. Leave theIP address or FQDN field empty if you are deploying the instance for the first time or re-deploying.
    4. Enter a suitable hostname for the appliance.
    5. Enter IPV4 Network Configuration Details (Leave blank if you are planning to use DHCP for assigning IP Address).
    6. Click Next.
  12. Review the details and click Finish.
  13. Power on newly deployed virtual machine.
  14. Wait for at least 5 minutes for the OS to boot and finish the initial configuration.

Results

VMware Skyline Health Diagnostics virtual appliance is deployed and configured.