Announcing the Hyperic VMware Appliance
June 8th, 2007 John Mark
…and it’s ready for download.
We’ve always been great at giving our customers the ability to manage their VMware servers and guest VM’s, but now we’ve taken the extra step of creating a ready-to-run VMware appliance.
Basic platform: Debian 4.0
HQ version: 3.0.5-417 OS
Basic install:
- Have VMware player installed (or server)
- Start the appliance and login either as root or hyperic, with the password “hqadmin”. After logging in, you should see a message displaying your local Web URL for HQ, plus the username and password. (note: there’s a small chance that you might see an incorrect URL. If it contains “127.0.0.1″ you’ll have to replace that with the machine’s real address.)
- The appliance needs 764mb memory + about 3 gigs drive space. Debian is setup on a preallocated 1gig partition, HQ is setup on an allocate-as-you go 1 gig partition mounted in /home. The HQ mount can be resized as needed.
Thanks to Alex, our newest support engineer, for putting this together. Enjoy!
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1. People Over Process &raqu&hellip | June 11th, 2007 at 11:22 pm
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2. Matthew Porter | June 15th, 2007 at 10:16 am
Any thoughts to using rPath for this? Get VMWare, Xen, Parallels, ISO, etc. is one shot.
3. John Mark | June 15th, 2007 at 3:57 pm
hmm… good question. I notice that others have done exactly that, and it’s certainly something to consider.
Of course… being GPL, if you were to do that for us, we certainly wouldn’t mind. We might even give you some shirts and recognition on the blog ;)
-John Mark
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