Virtual Appliance - Hyper-V¶
To deploy the Plixer FlowPro virtual appliance for Hyper-V environments, note the following system requirements and proceed with the instructions that follow.
System Requirements¶
Component Minimum Specifications RAM 4GB DDR3 Disk 20GB SATA drive Processor 2.0 GHz Quad Core CPU Operating System Hyper-V 2012
Importing a Virtual Machine¶
- Unzip the latest Plixer FlowPro virtual appliance package on the Hyper-V server.
- In Hyper-V Manager, select Import Virtual Machine and browse to the Plixer FlowPro Appliance system folder.
- Select the virtual machine and import type.
- Go to Settings, select the network adapter, and assign it to the appropriate virtual switch.
Note
The Plixer FlowPro appliance comes with two interfaces: ‘mgmt’: for virtual appliance management and ‘mon1’: the default monitoring interface. It requires a mirrored port to be associated with ‘mon1’. To set up a mirrored port, reference the latest Hyper-V documentation.
- In the network adapter’s Advanced Features section, set the MAC address to Static, enter a unique MAC Address, and click OK.
- Start the virtual machine, right-click on it, and select Connect.
- Log in with the username
flowpro
and passwordflowpro
and wait for the server to reboot after a quick setup. - Issue the
edit license
command to enter the license key. - Paste the license key between the EOT markers after the label
license=
in the [Client] section of the plixer.ini file. The license key may span multiple lines. - Press CTRL+X to save.
Note
When adding additional monitoring interfaces to the virtual appliance, be sure to use the interface naming convention ‘monX’ so that Plixer FlowPro recognizes them as monitoring interfaces (for example: mon1, mon2).