Deploy a Conductor in VMware ESX/ESXi

Prerequisites

  • An existing installation of VMware ESX/ESXi server version 5.0 and later
  • A VMware open virtual appliance (OVA) for aConductor or HIPswitch.

System Requirements

The following VMware ESX/ESXi server hardware is required:

Processor
  • Minimum requirement of a single processor with hyper-threading support, VT-x technology, and 64-bit architecture.
  • Optimum configuration is minimum 4 processing cores with hyper-threading support, VT-x technology, 64-bit architecture, and AES-NI enabled in the host's BIOS.
Virtual image

Below are the minimum configuration requirements available for a virtual Conductor or HIPswitch image:

Platform Memory Disk
Conductor 4GB 120GB*
HIPswitch 1GB 1GB*

* Already included in the default OVA package

To deploy a virtual Conductor

  1. Deploy a new OVF template from within vSphere or vCenter. For most deployments, the default settings are sufficient.
  2. Browse to the location of the downloaded OVA file.
  3. Give the virtual machine a unique name and select its storage location.
  4. Map the virtual machine's network interfaces with the correctly assigned port groups for the Conductor.
  5. Disk provisioning can be set to Thin Provisioned
  6. Verify the configuration, check Power on after deployment, and then click Finish to begin the update.

To configure the Conductor

An unlicensed, new VMware Conductor deploys with the default configuration.

  • Network adapter 1 is configured with a static IP address of 192.168.56.2
  • Network adapter 2 is configured for DHCP IP addressing

To determine the IP address assigned to network adapter 2, from the console prompt, type username macinfo with password macinfo.

Run the Conductor web UI on either of the network adapters to license your Conductor.