Installing the Virtual Appliance

To run Haivision Media Platform under a VMware platform:

1. Download the Haivision Media Platform Virtual Machine Release Package from the 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 specifications:

   • 12 CPU cores, 16GB RAM, 100GB HDD for OS and apps (thin provision recommended)

     

     Note

     Due to the OS upgrade in HMP 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 sparse-provisioned and set up to grow up to 100GB
     • Disk 2 is sparse-provisioned up to 10GB and should be replaced by your organization’s preferred asset storage, NFS mount, or VM storage disk. If you are not planning to attach external storage, provision at least 80GB of space for this partition.
   • Using an external, customer-provided NFS for HMP asset storage is strongly recommended for HMP Virtual Machine implementations.
   • Be aware that the default virtual disk size is only 9Gb.

   • Contact Haivision Technical Support before attempting to resize or replace the virtual disk, as this requires access to the HMP command line interface (to configure the virtual disk devices, LVM, file system, and OS).

     

     Important

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

4. Power on the virtual machine.