Deploy and Configure Virtual Appliance in VMware ESXi

Splunk AppDynamics On-Premises Virtual Appliance requires three virtual machines. To create a virtual machine, download the OVA file to your local machine where ESXi is deployed.

Splunk AppDynamics On-Premises Virtual Appliance uses the OVA file to install OS and MicroK8s in your virtual machines.

Download the OVA image from the Virtual Appliance tab in the Downloads portal, and verify that the file has execute permissions.
  1. Log in to the ESXi.
  2. Select Create / Register VM.
  3. Select Deploy a Virtual Machine from an OVF or OVA file.
  4. Select OVF and VMDK files:
    1. Specify a name for your virtual machine.
    2. Select the OVA file that you have downloaded from the Downloads portal.
  5. Select the datastore for the virtual machine.
  6. In License Agreements, read and accept the license agreement.
  7. In Deployment Options, specify the following:
    • Network Mappings - Select the required network map type from the list.
    • Deployment Type - Select the Virtual Appliance profile.
    • Disk Provisioning - Select the disk provision type.
    • Power on automatically - You can choose to power the virtual machine on after deployment.
  8. Review the configuration, then click Finish.
  9. Create two more virtual machines using the same OVA file.
  10. Power on all the virtual machines.

Bootstrap VMware ESXi

After you deploy the virtual machines, you must bootstrap VMware ESXi so virtual machines can use the ESXi details.

  1. Log in to console of the node using the appduser credentials.
    Note: By default, the node password is set to changeme.
  2. Run the following command to bootstrap VMware ESXi.
    CODE 
    sudo appdctl host init
  3. Specify the following details of virtual machine that you have created during deployment:
    • Hostname
    • Host IP address (CIDR format)
    • Default gateway IP address
    • DNS server IP address
    • Domain Name
  4. Run the appdctl show boot command on the node.

    Sample Output

    CODE 
    NAME              | STATUS    | ERROR
-------------------+-----------+-------
 firewall-setup    | Succeeded | --   
 hostname          | Succeeded | --   
 netplan           | Succeeded | --   
 ssh-setup         | Succeeded | --   
 storage-setup     | Succeeded | --   
 cert-setup        | Succeeded | --   
 enable-time-sync  | Succeeded | --   
 microk8s-setup    | Succeeded | --   
 cloud-init-config | Succeeded | --
  5. Repeat this procedure on each virtual machine.