Installing IBM WebSphere Application Server Hypervisor Edition silently

The WebSphere® Application Server Hypervisor Edition supports the Open Virtualization Format (OVF) 1.0 specification from the Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF). It uses this specification as a silent configuration method for the IBM® WebSphere Application Server Hypervisor Edition.

Before you begin

Before proceeding with the following steps, see the OVF 1.0 specifications.

About this task

Silent activation provides an alternative method for configuring your IBM WebSphere Application Server Hypervisor Edition virtual images. Use the following steps to use silent activation to configure a single virtual machine on your ESX hypervisor.

Procedure

  1. Upload the OVF image to your hypervisor.
    1. Extract the contents of the compressed packages to your local system. Run the tar -xzf command against each package:
      was.8550.nd.linux.vmware.ovf.binary.sles.x86.tgz 
      was.8550.nd.linux.vmware.ovf.metadata.sles.x86.tgz 
      was.8550.nd.linux.vmware.ovf.os.sles.x86.tgz
      After the files are extracted, you have the following files:
      • Red Hat:
        was85-32-RHEL.ovf
        RHEL61-32.vmdk
        WebSphere.vmdk
      • Novell SLES:
        was85-32-SLES.ovf
        SLES11-32.vmdk
        WebSphere.vmdk 
    2. Upload the files to the ESX hypervisor. Transfer the extracted files to the VMware ESX hypervisor using the VMware Infrastructure Client. Click File > Deploy OVF Template... In the first panel, click browse and locate the WebSphere_V85_ESX_RHEL8632.ovf file extracted in the previous step. Follow the wizard to name your image, select the appropriate datastore, and select the network to use. At the conclusion of the wizard, your disks transfer to the hypervisor and the VM is registered.
  2. Prepare the silent activation file. The OVF specification recommends an ISO image to contain a ovf-env.xml file that specifies multiple configuration parameters for the virtual machine. See ovf-env.xml file for details on the ovf-env.xml file.
  3. Create the ISO image. You can create the ISO image with standard ISO creation software. The following example shows how to create the ISO with the mkisofs utility.
    mkdir /tmp/ovfenv
    cp ovf-env.xml /tmp/ovfenv
    mkisofs –J –r –o activation.iso /tmp/ovfenv
  4. Transfer the activation.iso file to the data store where IBM WebSphere Application Server Hypervisor Edition virtual image disks are located. Transfer the activation.iso file to the data store. Click manage datastores. Click the upload files icon.
  5. Confirm that the activation.iso file is attached to the virtual image. Using the VMware Infrastructure Client, click the virtual machine image to which you want to attach the .iso. Click settings and go to the CD ROM section and verify that the activation.iso file is the primary iCD image for the virtual machine.
  6. Start the virtual machine by right clicking the virtual machine name and selecting Power On.

Results

After successfully completing these steps, you have silently configured a single virtual machine that is running and available for use.

What to do next

Click the Websphere Administrative Console icon to open the administrative console. Log in with the virtuser user ID and password you configured with the ovf-env.xml file.

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