Virtual Machine Installation

This article provides the requirements of the known virtual machines at the time of publication. Virtual machine requirements are provided in the datasheets of the individual products and should be consulted to ensure the latest requirements are con...

Turn-up of a Skylight orchestrator virtual machine requires deployment of the virtual machine on an existing VMware ESXi host. After the virtual machine has been deployed and started, you will be able to access its console, to perform the remaining ...

Turn-up of a KVM virtual machine requires deployment of Skylight orchestrator as a virtual machine on an existing KVM host (Ubuntu, CentOS or Red Hat). After the Skylight orchestrator virtual machine is installed and started, you will be able to acc...

Increasing the virtual disk storage (/data) available to the Skylight orchestrator makes it possible to retain up to four weeks of session data for 52K elements. This article explains how to resize the disk space available for a Skylight orchestra...

This article explains how to resize the disk space available for a Skylight orchestrator deployed as a KVM virtual Machine. Resizing the disk space is done using the resize function of the qemu-img utility. The resize function allows you to change t...

Selecting a deployment profile that scales beyond 5,000 network elements requires that operators configure the virtual Machine with data disks. This is needed to ensure sufficient disk space and I/O performance is available to the application. Ou...

The following procedure disables VMware Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) for a Skylight orchestrator virtual machine. This is required to prevent migration of live orchestrator virtual machines on the VMware ecosystem. Virtual Machine Overri...