vSphere

Recommended version: VMware vSphere 4 or newer

Initial Setup

Obtain vSphere and follow vendor's installation instructions.

Note

VMware Tools is not pre-installed on the Stackato VM because of potential incompatibilities with different hypervisor versions. If you wish to install VMware Tools on the Stackato VM, make sure the version matches your ESX/ESXi version.

Configuration

Unlike the Stackato micro cloud in other environments, the vSphere VM does not broadcast the stackato-xxxx.local hostname via multicast DNS, and it may not have the default api.stackato-xxxx.local and stackato-xxxx.local entries in the /etc/hosts file.

• The hostname can be changed as per the steps in Changing the Hostname.
• To verify the contents of /etc/hosts see Modifying /etc/hosts.
• Network DNS entries may be added as outlined in the DNS section.

vSphere Cloning

To create a cluster of Stackato VMs with vSphere:

1. Import the Stackato OVF.
2. Clone the resulting Stackato VM to create as many nodes as you need for your cluster.
3. Start the cloned Stackato VMs.
4. Run the appropriate kato node attach commands on the cloned nodes to configure their roles.

See the Cluster Setup and Assigning roles with kato sections for details on roles and the kato node attach and kato role add commands.

To scale the cluster (to add additional DEAs for example), follow the last three steps for each additional node, running the kato node attach command to assign the needed role and pointing it to the primary node.