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SevOne Data Platform Deployment on Microsoft Azure

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About

Microsoft Azure is a cloud computing service created by Microsoft for building, testing, deploying, and managing applications and services through Microsoft-managed data centers. Introducing Microsoft Azure to SevOne Platform has its benefits such as,

  • Ability to deploy in Microsoft Azure.

  • Similar to how SevOne monitors Customer Premises Equipment (CPE), routers, switches, servers, and firewalls today, it will continue to provide the same capability with Microsoft Azure.

  • Monitoring data sources with Microsoft Azure may eliminate data transport costs.

In order to properly deploy SevOne NMS / SevOne Data Insight on Microsoft Azure, it is important to understand the following concepts.

SevOne Concepts

CentOS

The OS driving the SevOne appliance.

SevOne NMS

The SevOne NMS appliance.

SevOne Data Insight

The SevOne Data Insight appliance.


Azure Concepts related to SevOne

APM Portal

Azure Platform Management - the Graphical User Interface for Azure.

AZ CLI

The command line interface for Azure.

Region

The Azure region for deployment. This is analogous to multiple data centers in a large geographic area.

VHD

Virtual Hard Disk - the raw image from which an instance is created. VHDs are generated by SevOne and are made available to customers.

Azure Instance / Virtual Machine Types for SevOne Appliances

SevOne Instance

License Count

Azure Instance Type

Root Disk (GiB)

Data Disk (GiB)

vPAS5k

Up to 5k objects

Standard_D2s_v3

600

n/a

vPAS10k

Up to 10k objects

Standard_D4s_v3

600

n/a

vPAS20k

Up to 20k objects

Standard_D4s_v3

600

n/a

vPAS60k

Up to 60k objects

Standard_D8s_v3

600

1,250

vPAS100k

Up to 100k objects

Standard_D8s_v3

600

2,000

vPAS200k

Up to 200k objects

Standard_D32s_v3

600

4,000

vDNC100

Up to 100 interfaces

Standard_D8s_v3

600

400

vDNC300

Up to 300 interfaces

Standard_D16s_v3

600

800

vDNC1000

Up to 1000 interfaces

Standard_D32s_v3

600

1,500

vDNC1500

Up to 1500 interfaces

rStandard_D32s_v3

600

3,000

The average Input / Output Operations Per Second (IOPS) is 19,000KBs.

It is very important that you follow the information in the table above. Any deviation will cause undesired results and lack of support.

SevOne Image

Download the VHD image(s) from IBM Passport Advantage ( https://www.ibm.com/software/passportadvantage/pao_download_software.html ) via Passport Advantage Online . However, if you are on a legacy / flexible SevOne contract and do not have access to IBM Passport Advantage but have an active Support contract, please contact SevOne Support .

Azure customers will create an Azure page blob from a VHD in the SevOne Microsoft Azure storage account. This blob will be used to create the Azure image.

For details, please refer to https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/storage/blobs/storage-quickstart-blobs-portal

Prerequisites

  • Azure Virtual networks must have VPN connectivity.

  • SevOne NMS image must be uploaded to your Azure storage account.

Upload SevOne NMS image to Azure Storage Account

Upload the version of SevOne NMS VHD image you received to a container in your Azure storage account, saving the URL to the uploaded VHD for a later step. Each SevOne NMS version only needs to be uploaded once.

    1. Login to the Azure portal.

    2. Navigate to Storage Accounts.

    3. Click the + Create button.

    4. Click the link under Instance Details for If you need to create a legacy storage account type, please click here.

    5. Complete the following fields.

      1. Subscription - select your subscription.

      2. Resource Group - select an existing or create a new resource group.

      3. Storage account name - for example, sevoneimages. (you must specify a name that is unique across all of Microsoft Azure)

      4. Location - specify your region.

      5. Performance - Standard

      6. Account kind - Storage (general purpose v1).

      7. Replication - Locally-redundant storage (LRS).

    6. Click Review + create.

    7. Click Create.

    8. Click Go to resource after the deployment has completed.

    1. Click + Container and complete the following fields.

      1. Name - sevone

      2. Public access level - Blob (anonymous read-access for blobs only).

    2. Upload SevOne image to the sevone container in your storage account via Microsoft Azure Storage Explorer (fastest / recommended) or Azure Portal Graphical User Interface.

    Azure Virtual Machine Creation

    Create SevOne NMS OS Disk for the Virtual Machine (VM) and create the instance from the OS disk.

      1. Login to the Azure portal.

      1. Click the + Create button and complete the following fields.

        1. Subscription - select your subscription.

        2. Resource Group - select an existing or create a new resource group.

        3. Disk Name - VM1 (Replace VM1 with your intended VM hostname).

        4. Region - specify your region.

        5. Source type - storage Blob.

        6. Source blob - specify the HTTP URL to the uploaded SevOne image or click browse to select it via Graphical User Interface.

        7. OS type - Linux

        8. VM generation - Gen 1

        9. Size - click the link for Change size at the bottom.

        10. Disk SKU - premium SSD (locally-redundant storage).

        11. Custom disk size (GiB) - 600

        12. Click OK.

      2. Click Review + create.

      3. Click Create.

      4. Click Go to resource.

      5. Click + Create VM button.

        1. Subscription - select your subscription.

        2. Resource Group - select an existing or create a new resource group.

        3. VM Name - VM1 (Replace VM1 with your intended VM hostname).

        4. Region - specify your region.

        5. Size - select the correct Azure Instance Type from the table Azure Instance Types for SevOne Appliances.

        6. Public Inbound Ports - allow selected ports.

        7. Select inbound ports - check the boxes for HTTP, HTTPS, SSH.

        8. Licensing type - Other

      6. Click the Next : Disks > button.

      7. Click Create and attach a new disk.

        IMPORTANT

        Skip this step if the data disk size for your SevOne NMS model is specified as n/a in table Azure Instance Types for SevOne Appliances.

        • Size - click the link for Change size at the bottom

        • Custom disk size (GiB) - specify the Data Disk (GiB) size for your SevOne NMS model in table Azure Instance Types for SevOne Appliances.

        • Click OK.

        • Click OK again.

      8. Click Next : Networking > button.

        1. Virtual Network - specify the appropriate virtual network.

        2. Subnet - specify the appropriate subnet.

        3. Public IP - None

      9. Click the Review + create button and click Create.

        It will take approximately 5 or more minutes to create a Virtual Machine.

        During key generation, SSH will be unavailable. Please wait for SSH to become available after all SevOne processes have started.

        IMPORTANT

        The following steps apply to SevOne NMS only.

      10. Using ssh, log in to SevOne NMS.

      11. Set the SevOne root password.

      12. Run /opt/azure_setup.sh script to complete the setup.

        IMPORTANT: Please make sure this step is executed for proper installation
        $ bash /opt/azure_setup.sh
        Example: Successful execution and completion of setup

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        You are now ready to login to your SevOne Virtual Machine in Azure via the Graphical User Interface, upload a license file, configure appliance model and size, and start monitoring your network.

      13. If this is being used as a DNC, please refer to SevOne NMS Appliance Configuration Guide for details.

      SevOne Appliance Configuration

      Please refer to SevOne NMS Appliance Configuration Guide for details on how to s et the correct application configuration for the customer's license type and count.

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