Cisco Dna Center ESXI Installation

so on this video I'm gonna go ahead and install DNA chattering 1.28 on VMware this is ESXi host this is obviously not something that you're gonna want to do in production this is just for lab purposes only for those so that thing that DNA cannot be installed on a VMware infrastructure the truth is yes it's indeed possible however you're gonna have to have a physically large server in terms of CPU and RAM so as you can see here the build that I have at 320 gig of ram only 28 get 28 CPUs II have a 526 97 on top of that I actually have 3 SSD drive each one of them is gonna be one point eighty two terabytes they're all Samsung SSD is going to be a must SAS drive or anything like that is just simply not gonna work so I'm gonna go ahead here and provision my SAS drive real quick sorry I meant the SSD drives real quick so we can initialize and begin the install so this is going to be SSD one we're just gonna creating in full again I'm gonna create a new data store and here I'm using actually ESXi 6 7 you can use anything else but nothing below 65 I would say so SSD 2 is what I'm adding finishing here and I'm gonna eat the last one here over here this is the last SSDI guard which is gonna be the 1 points every time and I'm gonna call it as at this area ok just gonna add it next provision it now the next thing I'm gonna do is actually I'm gonna need to upload the DNA see izo plan to the one of my data stores to do so I'm just gonna go to my main data store I'm gonna browse it and I'm just gonna simply upload it upload a file and I'm just gonna choose DNA one two eight and it's probably gonna take a while to upload so I'm just gonna pause this video until the upload is complete so we can complete the next provisioning phases okay so the file upload is now complete and we are ready to create the VM for DNA C from the main menu under virtual machines we're gonna go ahead and click on create register VM create a new virtual machine we're gonna collect next and this is gonna be what we need to customize few things to make it work name is obviously DNA C maybe we're gonna call it actually DNA see you because I'm not gonna have anything else hmm oh it's family here it's very important we're just gonna put other and under the Virgin we're also gonna put other 64 so let's see what that is other 64 you're gonna click Next and this is where things are a little bit tricky where you wanna do the installation so over here we're just gonna choose the very first SSD Drive which is SSD one for me and that's provisioning basically the very fired first hard disk so we're gonna need three hardware's provision so DNA C can perform three partitions SD ASDB as well as SDC if you miss on one partition the installation will simply fail so the boot is going to be on SSD one so we're just gonna hit next and we're gonna just wait a little bit because this is what we have to adjust the RAM and CPU pretty much everything Ram is gonna be very crucial so for sake of this video I'm just gonna give it 250 gig you can get away with much less than that I would say you can the safest one is up to 196 gig I've seen the system idle at 170 gig ram so it's up to your preference what you want to do on what kind of risk you want to take now that being said what we're gonna do now is make sure so the hard disk here is gonna be a minimum of which is going to be the bootable disk is going to be a minimum of 480 gig and we're gonna add disks after once once this done network adapter we're just gonna leave it as is now we're gonna come back to that in a minute I just want to cast this as far as CPU I'll give it everything I got so what I would do here is normally you know whatever power horsepower I have I will just do two sockets well in my example I can do here so let's take a look here so I will just give it everything I got or just pretty much 50 second b56 virtual CPUs we're gonna go ahead click Next here and finish it we are nowhere near done we're just gonna come back to this VM in a second and do some customization but I wanted to show you the networking here so we can do some because my ESXi here is fairly very large so there's nothing configured we gotta go in and add some VLANs for management and that sort of stuff so under V switch 0 I want to be able to add ports where did it go port loops here we go so under port groups I'm gonna add a port group at this point I only have one link connected to my switch and that's at just a 10 gig link doesn't have to be in your case one gig is more than enough but I want to just start tagging things because I own the DNA senator set on V 911 so this is going to be a V 911 for me so VLAN 11 VLAN ID is going to be 11 and so on switch obviously on virtual switch 0 and in my case here I'm just gonna login and show you what setup I got on my VM 11 it's really nothing fancy so see this is sitting on via 200 and the V 9 is I've been one I do 1 6 8 10 that's all so now being an alum in this provision I want to add another V land just in case I'm gonna need it not sure or not I'm just gonna a beaut I'm 15 I think yeah 15 is gonna be fine so VLAN 15 for provisioning as well you need to define all the net cards before you actually begin the installation once you begin installation there's no going back at the DNA and actually adding you can try to add mix the DNA but that's just not gonna work for you so whatever NIC network cards you want to use in advance you know I suggest you provision them because it's gonna be in one way there's no turnin get out of here so we all have 13 as well and this is going to be 13 I'm provisioning that and I'm just adding it now we go back to our virtual machines so we can actually do the customization I was telling you about earlier over here we're going to do Eddy settings load give it a second okay so here's where things must match or otherwise the install will fail the original DNA Senate appliance has a lot of artists in it so one of them is gonna be Rider rate one and then you're gonna have the remaining are gonna be - I believe they use right ten I can't remember so it's probably right then and each one is partitioned you four terabytes so we want to give vnh Center a minimum of three disks so the installation can succeed over here we're just gonna have to add a disk new disk and size of the disk is going to be so this is going to be for DNS ni s DB and over here we want to go and allocate as much as possible so I'm gonna give it one point twenty eight terabyte which is I think that's the maximum size I'm just gonna give it all here one point to always give it a little bit less so you don't lose swap in this one point two terabytes okay and so that's for disk one now we want to add another disk and then a third so we're gonna add a this year new disk and over here obviously we're gonna have to point it to SSD to which we created earlier so we want to browse we created SSD 2 which is a 2 terabyte drive so we're gonna make sure we selected and we're gonna obviously for this case I'm just gonna give it you know all the size that I got so I do have a lot of size so I don't care so at this point what do we have we got this Quan and we get this tool which we're going to adjust to a one point point seven terabytes right so that's it right so let's do it quick revision here this one for 80 gigabytes this to one point two terabytes don't do less than that you're just not gonna pass and this three is going to be 1.7 terabytes VM this is what we've been creating right so we want to make sure that this one here is selected and now it's not shown before I save so I've got a save here then come back to this because the actual network provisioning port is not complete so thank you a second and then we'll edit it again we are over here go ahead and edit the settings and let's see if the network cards are gonna appear or not I should be able to see the other beyond so VLAN 11 in my case is my very first one and I'm just gonna add another one here real quick I want to nix in my case one for management and the other one is going to be part of the fabric though so I've added it and you know I'm done I'm obviously not gonna want it to be part of the 911th could be used for clustering or whatever you need so I'm just gonna put it on VLAN 13 to get going at least now this is where obviously there's no operating system so we're gonna have to make sure that we are choosing the to boot from ISIL which uploaded earlier so we're gonna just under cd-rom we're gonna go data store iso file and we're just gonna choose one to eight iso that I've actually uploaded a while ago it took me like 10 minutes so obviously right now there is no operating system and the default behavior is gonna be for a VM that doesn't have all as to boot from CD as it goes through its speed booting sequence I'm gonna go ahead now and power it on and you know go through the installation right click power come on pour on and okay so here it failed let's see why it failed monitor loop let's take a look why it fell I'm pretty sure it's something to do with the disk yeah so no space left on the device which I mentioned earlier that you're not supposed to actually max out your disk so we're gonna have to reduce one of the disk sizes on this VM and this is crucial so let's go ahead and start tweaking things around until we get the right numbers so yeah I have a feeling it's you know that first one that I actually did one point terabyte and the discourse to when I had already used 400 gig so I'm pretty much left with no swap for the ESXi to actually fire it up let's see so this one is fine this one I'm pretty sure this is the guy here that is actually complaining but uh let's drop it down to one terabyte instead that's you how it goes okay see what happens so what we gonna do is we're gonna have to delete the disk deletes all going to just delete the disk and we add it obviously there's a lot of tweaking to get this working and you know to get that this size the right ratio where DNA is going to accept it so we're just gonna delete all the discs now and we add them because the sequence is important in sizing zone so began to leave both discs we added and we're just gonna reprovision them again alright so DNA I'm just gonna do edit settings and we're just gonna add the base mm-hmm okay so we're just gonna go ahead and basically add the disk add a new hard disk because we cleared it make sure that this is a SSD one so it is SS do you want but instead this time we said we're gonna give it only one terabyte and see how it goes so this is one terabyte for this disk we're gonna add another disk like we discussed earlier add hard disk new disk and obviously we're gonna choose we're just going to choose the SSD to from drop down menu browse go to SSD to selected and we're gonna switch this to terabyte it's okay and we're gonna just use I would say that's not max it out it sounds like VM doesn't my cat ESXi it doesn't like you when you're actually maxing data stores out so let's take a look here so let's power it on and see if if that does the trick or we gonna run to the same issue or not I'm pretty sure that you to fix it yeah things are looking better let's take a look nothing red okay so we're just gonna click on console as you can see it already booted up here and we are the MATLAB installation screen so we're just gonna ahead and click on the thirty-first option which is the microwave installer I'm gonna try to maximize the screen so it's more clear can oh yeah should be better no no that's better sorry if the screen is appearing small but uh obviously this is a council within VM and I you can see here through the installation the very first thing it actually does it validates the throughput of that disk and actually if you do not have SSD this is what it will fail on you right away because throughput is important we're gonna start the NAC cluster obviously we're not joining a cluster so start the NAC and this is where we want to begin everything right so I'm gonna be 911 I'm just going to give this one or two one six eight and up two three - 13 - five - five five one nine two one six eight done and over here DNS servers we're just gonna leave it public again this is for lab purposes this is not something you're gonna want to do in real operations cluster link I'm choosing this as a cluster link just so I can actually zoom in through the installation and next you're gonna see here obviously the next network card which I actually placed this network card is uh you can use it usually for cluster link or other purposes or management only but in my case I'm just not gonna use it I don't need it I'm only doing an installation for sake of labbing and showing you guys how you can get away with it VM so over here we're done we're just gonna hit next and at this point obviously we're gonna hit proceed please wait give it a couple minutes over here have your I would say at this point so the the virtual IP is something you want to keep in mind because you know in a DNA cluster you're gonna need that virtual and a host so I'm using 14 for a clock for a virtual and I'm using 213 for a host next thing you want to make sure you keep handy is your NTP server so make sure you have an NTP server over here this is your password that I'm entering just keep in mind there's actually two passwords here one of them is going to be for your SSH access which is route Maglev and the other password is going to be for the DNA see Figg interface so I just set up my password and it's probably gonna ask before MTP here we go I do have my NTP ready I use public ntp again this is just testing purposes and that's something you're gonna do in production obviously here it's going to validate ntp and we're gonna give it a minute okay subnet services make sure you actually allocate you know two subnet services that are not part of your network these are going to be used by DNA services like every time we have a duckers or containers containers are gonna actually use their own IP addresses every service so make sure over here you have something ready for DNA that is not part of your network obviously this is not an stuff this is not a tutorial to show you you know how things should be done this is not how to tell you how DNA works this is just to basically give you some education of if you actually face a situation where you want a lab DNA center in a VM environment I'm you happy to have a lot around and CPU then you probably could get away next here back can still proceed we're gonna go ahead and proceed and wait so shortly I'm going to pause the wizard because obviously it's gonna take hours to finish but it's very important in the very few faces coming in there are few indicators that are going to tell us if the actual installation is going to succeed or it's gonna fail the indication that I look for usually is the partitioning right so if you see the NS entered during this installation partitions creating three partitions as the a1 which is doing now and SDB and SDC you should be fine so it's now doing SDA and we're doing Sdn six let's see if it's gonna go ahead and SBB so it took the second partitions and I'm waiting for SDC as well as BC so if you see that DNA Center has during the partitioning and the format created SDA one and all the stuff SD bu one two three it doesn't matter as DC then that means DNA is going problem the continued and sexy provided you have you know the memory of CPU if you see during the installation that it skipped instant you know doing creating a partition for SBB or SDC then 99% the installation will fail the NI Center is going to place its containers and configuration database data and all that sort of stuff on different in different locations so although you will see that the actual installation is going to proceed it's not gonna hop but during later on when you're pushing maglev packages you will see that it's actually failing miserably so I'm trying to save you time if you don't see SDA SBB SDC please make sure that you you know go back through this installation wizard and you know follow my steps it most likely you have the partitions wrong that being said I'm just gonna go ahead now and pause this video until the installation is finished so I show you what are the you know the final steps that we need to do you know mo mentally here and there what I would do is I'm just gonna open a notepad just to type it in I would basically obviously I installed this on one and two and six eight dot turned up to thirteen what I would do from here and there I would just basically SSH to the box and make sure you SSH over port 22 22 username is going to be maglev transport is going to be whatever you indicate it and you know I'm just gonna type here your password I'm there on what I would just do occasionally is I would just do maglev package status I will just do this every maybe half an hour to an hour which basically shows me the progress if the packages are being deployed or not usually there's a good indicator how the you know how the installation is gonna continue or not if you go ahead and execute the maglev package status and you come across errors chances are your installation failed you're not meeting the hardware requirements etc you'd have to do it all over again so these are things that you might want to keep in mind I'll go ahead pause get back to you when this thing is done okay so it looks like the installation finished here I came back in two hours and almost done let's take a look real quick so to ask me to login again it's fine alright so as you can see here pretty much all the packages are deployed with the optional ones that I've done installed so we'll go ahead and fire up our browser so we can take a look at DNA two one four or two and three will respond because the actual host is 213 214 is the fit so admin as well same password that we set up during the installation and success let's see so I'm gonna skip all these you know initial configuration we'll get back to it later I just want to basically show you a few things before we wrap up so I'm skipping everything I could come back to this and set it up later it's all next next go to systems 360 okay uh so over here when I go is you want to go you to the cloud at the top and go to software updates you click on that and that's gonna show you what's been installed and what's not being installed installed apps pretty much all the core ones bays NTP services and assurance and updates obviously is optional so I'm gonna go ahead now and pretty much install the remaining items but you know that's not mandatory depending on your deployment I guess obviously we want to come back here and see how much resources were consuming and you know how much this installation indeed requires in terms of CPU RAM storage let's see just loading okay so used in idle state you're at 190 gig ram pretty intense CPU not so much used three point twenty four terabytes so you can tell I mean you we're gonna need a very good machine to act and I can't serve this enough fYI I was not able to get DNA C to work on any platform that has a ddr3 RAM so it looks like the ddr4 is the minimum requirement SSD is also a must I can't think of anything else to share with you other than this obviously so we're just gonna wrap up now and hopefully we'll catch up in next videos

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Id: 64gTr1VBIeY

Length: 24min 32sec (1472 seconds)

Published: Sat Feb 02 2019