• Contents
  • 1 About the chapters of this manual
  • 2 An introduction to Virtual Server Appliance
  • 3 Activate the VSA
  • 4 Configuration Assistant
  • 5 Install additional HELIOS products
  • 6 Linux Runtime
  • 7 Volume Management
  • A System and data disk migration
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Contents

• 1 About the chapters of this manual
• 2 An introduction to Virtual Server Appliance
  • 2.1 About licenses
    • 2.1.1 Linux (Debian)
    • 2.1.2 HELIOS Configuration Assistant
    • 2.1.3 HELIOS
  • 2.2 New features in the Virtual Server Appliance
• 3 Activate the VSA
  • 3.1 Virtualization platforms
    • 3.1.1 VMware ESX
    • 3.1.2 Microsoft Hyper-V
    • 3.1.3 Other virtualization solutions
  • 3.2 Log in for the first time
• 4 Configuration Assistant
  • 4.1 Notes on using Configuration Assistant
  • 4.2 Configure the Virtual Server Appliance
  • 4.3 General setup (passwords, keyboard, time)
    • 4.3.1 Set user passwords
    • 4.3.2 Set keyboard layout
    • 4.3.3 Configure time zone
    • 4.3.4 Configure time synchronization (NTP or hypervisor)
    • 4.3.5 Set time manually
  • 4.4 Network setup (hostname, IP addresses, DHCP, NFS)
    • 4.4.1 Set hostname
    • 4.4.2 Configure network interfaces (TCP/IP settings)
    • 4.4.3 Configure DNS client (name servers, domain names)
    • 4.4.4 Configure proxy server (internet update access)
    • 4.4.5 Set up NFS server (create/manage exports)
    • 4.4.6 Set up NFS client (mount exports from other servers)
    • 4.4.7 Show network summary
  • 4.5 Storage setup (data volumes)
    • 4.5.1 List physical volumes (disks used for volume group)
    • 4.5.2 Extend volume group (add disks as physical volume)
    • 4.5.3 Reduce volume group (remove disks as physical volume)
    • 4.5.4 Add logical volume (create file system)
    • 4.5.5 Manage logical volumes (edit/remove file systems)
    • 4.5.6 Remove volume group “<name>”
    • 4.5.7 Switch volume group (manage other volume groups)
    • 4.5.8 Create new volume group
    • 4.5.9 Show physical disk overview
  • 4.6 HELIOS services (start/stop, license, updates)
    • 4.6.1 Show the status of HELIOS services
    • 4.6.2 Start HELIOS services
    • 4.6.3 Stop HELIOS services
    • 4.6.4 Enter HELIOS license
    • 4.6.5 Install HELIOS updates
  • 4.7 Server administration (shutdown, reboot, active users)
    • 4.7.1 Shut down the server
    • 4.7.2 Reboot the server
    • 4.7.3 Switch to single-user mode
    • 4.7.4 List active Linux and HELIOS users (who & swho)
  • 4.8 Show configuration summary
  • 4.9 Exit and log out
  • 4.10 Exit to Linux shell
  • 4.11 Log file
• 5 Install additional HELIOS products
• 6 Linux Runtime
  • 6.1 Single-user/recovery mode
  • 6.2 SSH server
  • 6.3 NFS services
    • 6.3.1 Features
    • 6.3.2 Enable/disable NFS services
    • 6.3.3 NFS usage scenarios
    • 6.3.4 NFS client and server platform specifics
    • 6.3.5 VSA Linux man pages related to RPC/​NFS
  • 6.4 Included Linux packages
    • 6.4.1 Install additional Linux packages/​programs
  • 6.5 Root file system
• 7 Volume Management
  • 7.1 LVM overview
  • 7.2 Physical volumes
  • 7.3 Volume groups
  • 7.4 Logical volumes (file systems)
  • 7.5 File system snapshots
    • 7.5.1 Btrfs snapshots
    • 7.5.2 LVM/ext4 snapshots
    • 7.5.3 The benefit of snapshots
    • 7.5.4 Publish snapshots
    • 7.5.5 Example snapshot description
  • 7.6 A typical “datavg” setup with a RAID
  • 7.7 Replace data disks or a RAID system
    • 7.7.1 Upgrade to a new RAID system
    • 7.7.2 Replace disks in an existing RAID
  • 7.8 Increase volume group size
    • 7.8.1 Add disk to the volume group
    • 7.8.2 Grow an existing disk
    • 7.8.3 Add new or grown disk(s) to the volume group
  • 7.9 Reduce volume group or logical volume size
    • 7.9.1 Reduce volume group size
    • 7.9.2 Reduce logical volume
  • 7.10 Use a RAID 1 (mirroring) on the system disk
  • 7.11 Use a RAID 5 on disks
  • 7.12 Restore the operating system disk
  • 7.13 Summary
• A System and data disk migration
  • A.1 Migration overview
  • A.2 Migrate the system and data disks