HP Distributed Cloud Networking manual HP DCN Software Installation, HP VSD Installation Overview

2 HP DCN Software Installation

Topics in this chapter include:

•HP VSD Hardware and Software Requirements

•HP VSD Installation Overview

•HP VSD Installation Using QCow2 Image

•HP VSD Installation Using ISO Disc Image

•Import Certificates on the Servers

•Example of Load Balancer Configuration

HP VSD Hardware and Software Requirements

Installing HP VSD software requires:

•A hypervisor of the specifications set out in the Release Notes

•A mechanism to access the graphical console of the HP VSD appliance (e.g. VNC)

•IP address for the HP VSD appliance(s) and host name(s) defined in DNS and accessible to all VSP components.

For a license key to activate HP VSD once installed, contact your HP Sales Representative.

HP VSD Installation Overview

The procedures set out here assume installation on a hypervisor running KVM.

Installation Types

There are two types of installation, standalone and high availability.

High Availability

HP VSD High Availability is intended to guard against single-failure scenarios. High availability for HP VSD is implemented as a 3 + 1 node cluster as shown in Figure 3.

For high availability of the HP VSD nodes, it is necessary to ensure each VSD node has redundant network and power, so that no single failure can cause loss of connectivity to more than one HP VSD node. Therefore, each HP VSD node should be installed on a different hypervisor.

Each HP VSD instance and Name Node requires an individual network interface. All nodes must be IP‐reachable.

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