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Install Apstra on ESXi

These instructions are for installing Apstra software on an ESXi hypervisor. For information about using ESXi in general, refer to VMware's ESXi documentation.

  1. Confirm that you're running one of the Supported Hypervisors and Versions.
  2. Make sure that you allocate enough resources for your network. For example, if you're using more than 25 offbox agents, you'll need to add another VM. See Required Server Resources for more details.
    CAUTION:

    If you allocate insufficient CPU and RAM allocations for your network you'll probably experience issues such as slow response times, system errors and a critical "segmentation fault" (core dump). If this happens, you'll need to delete the VM and redeploy it with additional resources.
  3. Apstra software is delivered pre-installed on a single VM. The same Apstra VM image is used for installing both the Apstra controller and Apstra workers. As a registered support user, download the Apstra VM Image for VMware ESXi (OVA) from Juniper Support Downloads.
    Juniper Networks download page with options to download an image file locally or via URL.
  4. Log in to vCenter, right-click your target deployment environment, then click Deploy OVF Template.
    VMware vSphere Client Actions menu highlighting Deploy OVF Template for QNC Apstra virtual infrastructure management.
  5. Specify the URL or local file location for the OVA file you downloaded, then click Next. (Screenshot below is for a previous Apstra version.)
    Step 1 of the Deploy OVF Template wizard: Select an OVF template from URL or local file. Local file option selected. File chosen: aos_server_4.0.2-142.ova.
  6. Specify a unique name and target location for the VM, then click Next. (Screenshot below is for a previous Apstra version.)
    Deploying OVF template step: Name and folder selection for VM aos_server4.0.2-142 within virtual environment.
  7. Select your destination compute resource, then click Next.
    Step 3 of deploying OVF template: Select a compute resource for deployment, cluster chosen, progress tracker displayed.
  8. Review template details, then click Next.
  9. Select storage for the files, then click Next. We recommend thick provisioning for the Apstra server.
    Deploy OVF Template wizard step 5 Select storage; datastore options listed with capacity, provisioned, free space, and type.
  10. Map the Apstra Management network to enable it to reach the virtual networks that the Apstra server will manage on ESXi, then click Next.
    Step 6 of 7 in deploying OVF template: Selecting "topology1" as the destination network for "VM Network." IP allocation set to "Static - Manual" and protocol to "IPv4."
  11. Review your specifications, then click Finish.

You're ready to configure the Apstra server.