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1. About this Guide 1
1.1. About the Audience for this Guide ................................................................................. 1
1.2. Using the Product Documentation .................................................................................. 1
1.3. Experimental Features .................................................................................................. 1
1.4. Additional Information and Help ..................................................................................... 1
1.5. Contacting Support ....................................................................................................... 2
2. Planning for Your CloudPlatform Installation 3
2.1. CloudPlatform Installation Task Flow ............................................................................. 3
3. System Requirements 5
3.1. Operating System Requirements ................................................................................... 5
3.2. Hardware Requirements ................................................................................................ 5
3.3. Web Browser Requirements .......................................................................................... 5
3.4. Network Requirements .................................................................................................. 5
3.5. Ports that CloudPlatform Uses ...................................................................................... 6
4. Preinstallation Tasks 7
4.1. Preparing the Operating System to Host the Management Server .................................... 7
4.1.1. Downloading CloudPlatform Installation Package ................................................. 7
4.1.2. Verifying the Fully-Qualified Host Name .............................................................. 8
4.1.3. Setting the Value of SELinux Variable ................................................................. 8
4.1.4. Verifying Connectivity ......................................................................................... 8
4.1.5. Configuring a Local yum Repository .................................................................... 9
4.1.6. Configuring User Process Limits ......................................................................... 9
4.1.7. Enabling NTP for Synchronizing Time ............................................................... 10
4.1.8. Installing and Configuring the Database ............................................................ 11
4.1.9. Configuring Network File System (NFS) Shares ................................................. 13
5. Installing CloudPlatform Management Server 17
5.1. Install the Management Server on the First Host .......................................................... 17
5.2. Prepare the System VM Template ............................................................................... 19
5.3. Security Considerations for Management Server ........................................................... 21
5.3.1. Enabling HTTPS for CloudPlatform Management Server .................................... 21
5.3.2. Configuring SSL Ciphers for Management Servers ............................................. 23
5.4. Logging on to CloudPlatform Web UI ........................................................................... 23
6. Logging on to the Management Server Web UI 25
7. Configuring Cluster Management Server Set Up 27
7.1. Installing Additional CloudPlatform Management Servers .............................................. 27
7.1.1. Management Server Load Balancing ................................................................. 27
7.2. Replicating Database (Optional) ................................................................................... 27
7.2.1. Failover ............................................................................................................ 29
8. Installing the Usage Server (Optional) 31
8.1. Requirements for Installing the Usage Server ............................................................... 31
8.2. Steps to Install the Usage Server ................................................................................ 31
9. Upgrading CloudPlatform to the Latest Version 33
9.1. Upgrading from 4.3.x to 4.5.0 ...................................................................................... 33
9.2. Upgrading from 4.2.x to 4.5.0 ...................................................................................... 38
9.3. Upgrading from 3.0.x to 4.5.0 ...................................................................................... 43
9.4. Upgrading Operating System version of KVM Hosts to RHEL 6.3 from RHEL 6.0 or
6.1 .................................................................................................................................... 49
9.5. Updating the Existing vCenter Password for the VMware Clusters Created in
CloudPlatform 3.0.6 (VMware only) .................................................................................... 50
9.6. Upgrading vCenter Server Version 5.1 to Version 5.5 ................................................... 51