Install the virtual appliance using the OVA file

Use the provided Open Virtual Appliance (OVA) file to install the virtual appliance with VMware.

The provided OVA file contains a pre-installed appliance image for the VMware hypervisor. This pre-installed appliance image can be used as an alternative installation mechanism to the provided installation ISO. The pre-allocated hard drive is 800 GB. The virtual machine definition includes six network interfaces and 8 GB memory. We can customize these settings after importing te OVA file into VMware.

Steps

1. Import the provided OVA file into VMware. The instructions for importing an OVA file might differ depending on your VMware product version. See the VMware documentation that suits your version for specific instructions.
2. Start the virtual machine.
3. When the reboot operation is complete, we can start the console-based appliance setup wizard by logging on as the admin user with a password of admin. Alternatively, the Appliance Setup wizard can be accessed through the local management interface.

Parent topic: Virtual appliance tasks