Virtual appliance - Hyper-V

To deploy the Plixer Replicator virtual appliance for Hyper-V environments, note the following system requirements and proceed with the instructions that follow:

System requirements for Hyper-V deployments:

  • RAM: 4 GB

  • Storage: 100 GB

  • Processor: 2 CPU, 2 cores, 2 GHz+

Importing the virtual machine

  1. Contact Plixer Technical Support and use the link (e.g., https://files.plixer.com/PACKAGE_PATH/PACKAGE_FILENAME.tar.gz) they provide to download the latest Hyper-V virtual appliance package.

  2. Extract the contents of the package to a location on the Hyper-V server.

  3. In Hyper-V Manager, select Import Virtual Machine and browse to the Plixer Replicator system folder.

  4. Select the virtual machine and import type.

  5. Go to Settings, select the network adapter, and assign it to the appropriate virtual switch.

  6. In the network adapter’s Advanced Features section, set the MAC address to Static, enter a unique MAC address, and press OK.

  7. Start the virtual machine, right-click on it, and select Connect.

  8. Log in with the username replicator and the password replicator, and then follow the prompts to configure the appliance.

  9. After the appliance reboots, log in to the web interface and follow the setup wizard to prepare Plixer Replicator for use.