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Installing a Standalone NetMRI/Sandbox Virtual Appliance
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Installing a Standalone NetMRI/Sandbox Virtual Appliance

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Last updated: Sept 26, 2023 by Uday Dubey (Deactivated)
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NetMRI and Sandbox images, compatible with both VMware and OpenStack, include drivers and guest-agent daemons customized for these platforms. Although NetMRI and Sandbox images can seamlessly integrate with OpenStack by using cloud-init for deployment, VMware deployment does not support cloud-init at this time. For deployment, we provide OVA images designed for VMWare and QCOW2 images optimized for OpenStack.
For detailed information on cloud-init deployment, refer to the cloud-init deployment section.

Complete the following to install a NetMRI/Sandbox virtual appliance:

  1. Download and install the virtual appliance image. For more information, see Downloading and Installing the Images for the Virtual Appliance.

  2. Import the virtual appliance files. For more information, see Importing the Virtual Appliance Files.

  3. Configure the NetMRI virtual appliance. For more information, see Configuring the NetMRI Virtual Appliance.

Supported Platforms

Hypervisor platform

Minimum version

Image type

Hypervisor platform

Minimum version

Image type

VMWare ESXi

5.5

OVA

OpenStack

Wallaby

QCOW2

Downloading and Installing the Images for the Virtual Appliance

Complete the following to download and install the image for the NetMRI/Sandbox virtual appliance:

  1. Verify whether the minimum system requirements provided in the table above are met.

  2. Download the suitable images from support.infoblox.com. 

  3. Install the distributable file according to the provided instructions in the following section.

Importing the Virtual Appliance Files

VMWare

NetMRI and Sandbox images can be imported into the VMWare environment by using an OVF or OVA template that adheres to VMWare's OVF and OVA template deployment guidelines.

OpenStack

  1. Add the image to the image repository by following the guidelines provided in the official OpenStack documentation.

  2. Create a flavor by referring to section Manage Flavors in the official documentation for OpenStack. For the best resource allocation that suits your setup, refer to the NetMRI Resource Allocation Guide or the Sandbox Resource Allocation Guide.

  3. Deploy the instance with the NetMRI/Sandbox image flavor you created.



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