on May 10, 2017Hi All,
Do we need to follow Soft appliance pre requisites to upgrade G&L which is installed on VM ?
As per documentation (7.0.2), system requires below configuration (in DEV)
RAM 48 GB
Processor Intel E5-2400 Quad Core
Disk Space 450 GB (RAID 1 or RAID 5)16 GB minimum for /root volume
Network Bond of NICs in active-backup bond mod
Also, Do we need Network Bond of NIC in case of VM installation/upgrade ?
Thanks in Advance,
SRiRAM
RSA IGL's hardware or OS specifications for a software appliance are the same irrespective of it being hosted on a physical or virtual appliance.
Thank you Pradeep.
What about Network Bond of NICs ? Do we need to configure this for VM ?.
Because it's a VM host .That means these NICs are all virtual So it would depend on which physical NIC each virtual NIC was assigned to . So for example :
If we have eth0 and eth2 as virtual nics in the guest OS If both of those eths map to the same physical nic ,what happens if that physical nic fails? You'd still lose both NICs .So if you have a way to map the 2nd NIC to a different physical interface then sure But without that it's more or less pointless...
We have all our VM setup with bond interface .So i would say Bonding is recommended but not required on VM unless you mapping those virtual nics to physical nics...
Bonding can be used in situations where you need fault tolerance, redundancy or load balancing networks. This specifically applies on Hardware appliance. If one interface is down or unplugged the other one will take over. The behavior of the bonded interfaces depends on the type of bonding method used (we usually setup active-backup mode)
Because it's a VM host .That means these NICs are all virtual So it would depend on which physical NIC each virtual NIC was assigned to . So for example :
If we have eth0 and eth2 as virtual nics in the guest OS If both of those eths map to the same physical nic ,what happens if that physical nic fails? You'd still lose both NICs .So if you have a way to map the 2nd NIC to a different physical interface then sure But without that it's more or less pointless...
We have all our VM setup with bond interface .So i would say Bonding is recommended but not required on VM unless you mapping those virtual nics to physical nics...
Bonding can be used in situations where you need fault tolerance, redundancy or load balancing networks. This specifically applies on Hardware appliance. If one interface is down or unplugged the other one will take over. The behavior of the bonded interfaces depends on the type of bonding method used (we usually setup active-backup mode)