Checklist of information required for installation and configuration

Overview

This article describes the required information you need to install and configure the Delphix Engine.

The InstallWorkbooks articles list all the values you need to capture, as well as sample values. Choose the workbook for your hypervisor. In addition to required values, the InstallWorkbooks also list useful data to document as part of your installation:

Hypervisor specific options

As a virtual appliance, Delphix supports a number of different hypervisors and configurations. Your choice of hypervisor and network configuration determines which configurations you need for the first Delphix installation step.

 Attribute  Sample data Used with the following hypervisor options
VMware with Static IP VMware with DHCP AWS Azure

Name

mydelphix1

*

*

*

*

Gateway IP

192.168.0.1

*

*

*

*

Root Volume Size

127GB

*

*

*

*

ESX Hostname

thx1138

*

*

Domain

mydomain.com

*

*

*

DNS server IP(s), comma-separated 

10.80.1.1, 10.80.1.2

*

*

*

Static IP and Subnet Mask in CIDR Notation

172.16.180.130/24

*

Number of vSCSI Controllers

4

*

VMDK/RDMs and Sizes

SAN 03- 3 TB, SAN04-3 TB, SAN05-3 TB & SAN06-3 TB

*

Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) Name

vpc-673822a23

*

Subnet

subnet-748391e26

*

Auto-assign Public IP

disable

*

EC2 instance type

r3.8xlarge

*

Security Groups

sg-78sdg99879, sg-8798s77009

*

Root Volume Type

Magnetic

*

Number of EBS volumes

4

*

Size of EBS volumes

500G

*

Type of EBS volumes

Provisioned IOPS SSD

*

IOPS set on each volume

5,000

*

Encryption on EBS volumes

TRUE

*

Virtual Network (vnet)

*

Subnet

*

Network Interface w/ Static Public IP

*

VM Size

Example: D8s_v3

*

Network Security Group

*

OS Disk

127 GB - Premium SSD

*

Data Disks

Premium SSDs

*

Optional information required for initial configuration

Class

Attribute

Sample data

Time

NTP Servers (Highly Recommended)

172.16.180.10, 172.16.180.11

Timezone

US/Pacific

Serviceability (Highly Recommended)

Enable Phone Home? (Highly Recommended)

Yes

Web Proxy Server IP Address

192.168.1.200

Web Proxy Server Port

8080

Web Proxy Server Username (If Required)

user

Web Proxy Server Password (If Required)

***

Enable SMTP Server (Highly Recommended)

Yes

SMTP Server IP Address

192.168.22.22

SMTP Server Port Number

25

SMTP Server From Email Address

delphix@hostname.mydomain.com

SMTP Server User (Optional)

user

SMTP Server Password (Optional)

***

SMTP Use TLS Authentication? (Optional, Default=No)

No

SMTP Send Timeout (Optional, Default=60)

60

Authentication (Highly Recommended)

LDAP Server IP Address

192.168.7.7

LDAP Server Port

389 (636 for SSL)

Protect LDAP traffic with SSL/TLS (true | false)

false

LDAP SSL Authentication (SIMPLE | DIGEST_MD5)

SIMPLE

SNMP Integration

SNMP Server IP Address

192.168.77.156

SNMP Server Port

162

SNMP Community

mycommunity

SNMP Use INFORM Instead of TRAP

false

SNMP Severity Level (INFORMATIONAL, WARNING, CRITICAL)

CRITICAL

Splunk integration (Highly recommended)

Splunk Server IP address

192.168.8.8

Splunk Server HEC Port Number

8088

Splunk HEC Token

12345678-1234-1234-1234-1234567890AB

Index Name for Events

delphix_events

Index Name for Metrics

delphix_metrics

ADMIN

Email Address

u12345@mydomain.com

SYSADMIN

Email Address

u12345@mydomain.com