Installing the Virtual Appliance

To run Media Gateway/SRT Gateway under a VMware platform:

1. Download the Virtual Machine Release Package from Haivision's Support Portal and extract the files.
2. Import the .OVA file into VMware's vSphere Hypervisor 5.5 or greater.

3. Configure the virtual host to meet the following minimum VM specifications:

   SKU	vCPUs	RAM	HDD for OS and apps*
   VM-MG-100/VM-SG-10	4	8 GB	100 GB
   VM-MG-200/VM-SG-20	8	16 GB	100 GB
   VM-MG-500/VM-SG-50	16	16 GB	100 GB
   VM-MG-1500/VM-SG-UL	32	32 GB	100 GB

   *Thin provision recommended.

   

   Note

   Due to the OS upgrade in HMG/HSG 4.0+, your VM must support AVX and AVX2 instructions. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Vector_Extensions for more details.

   Haivision VM images use two disks: Disk 1 is thin-provisioned and set up to grow up to 100GB; Disk 2 is thin-provisioned up to 10GB and should be replaced by your organization's preferred asset storage, NFS mount, or VM storage disk.

   Recommended load usecases for the above specifications (based on 10-Mbps source, using SRT or UDP as the transport protocol):

   SKU	Bandwidth	# of Routes/# of Destinations
   VM-MG-100/VM-SG-10	100 Mbps	10 Routes with 1 Destination each or 5 Routes with 2 Destinations each
   VM-MG-200/VM-SG-20	200 Mbps	20 Routes with 1 Destination each, 10 Routes with 2 Destinations each, or 5 Routes with 4 Destinations each
   VM-MG-500/VM-SG-50	500 Mbps	50 Routes with 1 Destination each, 25 Routes with 2 Destinations each, or 5 Routes with 10 Destinations each
   VM-MG-1500/VM-SG-UL	3000 Mbps	100 Routes with 3 Destinations each

   

   Important

   Reserve sufficient virtual resources (CPU, RAM, NIC, and HD) to avoid adverse effects to system performance.

4. Power on the virtual machine.