Initial Appliance Configuration

This article explains how to configure the management interface of the appliance to establish initial network connectivity. The procedures in this section guide you through these tasks:

• Editing the management Interface
• Editing the Hostname
• Setting the Time Zone
• Configuring the NTP Client
• Setting the Date and Time
• Setting the DNS Servers
• Adding an Interface
• Changing the Default Console Password.

The procedures assume you have already accessed the console of the Skylight orchestrator appliance. You can access the console in various ways:

• For a VMware virtual appliance: Use the Console tab in the vSphere Client application. See VMware Virtual Machine Installation and Connectivity.
• For a KVM virtual appliance: Use the virtual shell console. See KVM Virtual Machine Installation and Connectivity.
• When you have network connectivity:

• Open an SSH session to the IP address of the appliance on port 2200

The appliance is shipped with one network interface enabled. The interface is defined with these default parameters:

• Interface name: eth0
• Interface Type: Standard
• Interface Port: MGMT
• IP Address: 169.254.1.1
• Subnet Mask: 255.255.0.0

Additional interfaces can also be configured for virtual appliances.

You can configure additional interfaces for a VMware virtual appliance as follows:

• To add a standard interface, you add network adapters to the virtual machine configuration. Up to eight network adapters are supported. See Adding Network Adapters to Support Additional Ports/Interfaces.
• To create a tagged interface, you must enable support for VLAN tagged interfaces on the virtual switch of the ESXi host. See VMware documentation for instructions on how to configure a virtual switch to support VLAN tags.

You can configure additional interfaces for a KVM virtual appliance as follows:

• The number of interfaces assigned to the KVM guest (Orchestrator_Core) is determined by the XML configuration file. You can add additional interface statements to the XML file, which allows you to configure up to eight interfaces.