Cisco Cisco Expressway Installation Guide
Installation process
This process guides you through installing the Expressway VM using vCenter or vSphere client.
Configuring the VM host
Ensure that the VM host is configured with a valid NTP server – the same NTP server that will be specified in
Expressway.
Expressway.
1. Select the host.
2. Go to the
Configuration
tab.
3. Select Time configuration.
4. Select Properties.
If the date and time were red on the previous page, set the date and time manually to the current time.
5. Click Options.
6. Select NTP Settings.
7. Click Add.
8. Enter the IP address of the NTP server.
9. Click OK.
10. Select the Restart NTP service to apply changes check box.
11. Click OK.
12. Click OK.
The following section describes how to deploy the ova to host using vCenter. If you are using vSphere, skip
this section and go to
this section and go to
Deploying ova to host using vCenter
These instructions represent a typical installation. The Deploy OVF Template wizard dynamically changes to
reflect host configuration.
reflect host configuration.
1. If the .ova file is already preloaded onto the ESXi Host datastore (for example, in Cisco Business Edition
6000 deployments):
a. Using a web browser, go to https://<VMwareHost>/folder supplying any required credentials (typically
the same username and password as used to log into vCenter ).
b. Navigate through the index of datacenters to find the .ova file you want to deploy from the datastore.
c. Right click on the .ova file and select
c. Right click on the .ova file and select
Copy Link Location
.
(If the .ova file is not preloaded on the datastore, you can select and upload it in the following steps.)
2. Log in to vCenter to access the ESXi Host.
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