Installing CTERA Portal Instances

CTERA Portal Installations > VMware ESXi > Installing CTERA Portal Instances

Use the following workflow to install CTERA Portal on each virtual machine.

1 Importing the CTERA Portal OVA File.

2 Preparing for Production Deployment.

3 Logging In to the CTERA Portal Server and changing the password.

4 Configuring Network Settings.

5 Configuring a Default Gateway

6 Optionally, Initializing the Storage Pool.

7 Additional Installation Instructions for Customers Without Internet Access

8 For the first server you install, follow all of the steps in Configuring the CTERA Portal Primary Server.

9 For any additional servers beside the primary server, configure the server as an additional server as described in Installing Additional CTERA Portal Servers.

10 Make sure that you replicate the database, as described in Backing Up the Database.

Note: You can use snapshots block-storage-level snapshots for backup, but snapshots are periodical in nature, configured to run every few hours. Therefore, using snapshots, you cannot recover the metadata to any point-in-time, and can lose a significant amount of data on failure. Also, many storage systems do not support block-level snapshots and replication, or do not do so efficiently.