HP Distributed Cloud Networking manual Installation Methods, Reinstalling HP VSD

Figure 3: HP VSD 3 + 1 HA Cluster

The cluster consists of three HP VSD nodes and one statistics master node (Name node). In addition, a Load Balancer (not supplied) is optional to load balance across the HP VSD nodes for the REST API.

Installation Methods

The standard method of installation of HP VSD uses the pre-installed appliance. This appliance is distributed in four formats.

•a ready-to-use QCow2 VM image for KVM hypervisor deployment (see HP VSD Installation Using QCow2 Image)

•a ready-to-use image for VMWare hypervisor deployment

•a ready-to-use image for OVA hypervisor deployment

•an ISO disc image (see HP VSD Installation Using ISO Disc Image)

Table 1 provides an overview of the installation tasks with links to each.

Notes on Reinstallation: MySQL Root Password

The password for the MySQL root user is not set after installation, because the HP VSD installation scripts require that the root user not have a MySQL password.

Reinstalling HP VSD

To reinstall HP VSD, before uninstalling:

1.Set the root password to ‘no password.’ On each node, run:

mysql -uroot -p<current password> -e “update mysql.user set password=PASSWORD(‘’) where user=’root’; flush privileges;”

2.Uninstall all HP VSD nodes.

3.Install all HP VSD nodes following the procedure specified for your HP VSD version and installation type.

4.Verify that installation was successful.

5.Set the root password:

To set the root password for the first time, on each node, run:

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