Flexible Engine#

Installation requirements#

Golden image with Hystax Acura (provided by request).
Resources to launch a Flexible Engine virtual machine disk created from the Hystax Acura Golden image:
- 8 vCPUs,
- 16GB RAM,
- 200GB SSD disk.
Resources to launch a virtual machine for the Hystax Cloud Agent. Created in each target / failover project:
- 2 vCPUs,
- 4GB RAM,
- 20GB disk.
SMTP server with TLS/SSL encryption.
Security groups allowing the following traffic:
- Hystax Acura host:
  - Ingress -- tcp/443,
  - Ingress -- tcp/4443,
  - Ingress -- udp/12201.
- Hystax Cloud Agent (spawned automatically in the Target Project):
  - Ingress -- tcp/80.

Installation steps#

Cloud configuration#

1. Deploy a virtual machine from the golden image with a key pair attached and launch it in the Flexible Engine cloud.

Note

Adding a key pair during Acura's deployment is highly recommended to provide you with SSH access to the machine. Although Hystax Engineering team will be able to perform maintenance checks and troubleshooting (as long as the network is reachable and your security groups allow the corresponding traffic), it is better to have your own means of accessing the Acura instance. Please refer to Flexible Engine's official documentation on using an SSH public-private key pair.

2. Upload the provided Cloud Agent image to your target project and rename it to Hystax_CATI.

Pass Acura initial configuration#

Open a web browser and go to https://<ip_address_of_the_machine>/. You will be redirected to the Hystax Setup Wizard. After you perform all the steps, the installation will be complete and you will be able to start using Hystax Acura.

Step 1. Admin user creation.

Enter the organization name and new Hystax Admin User credentials into the Setup Wizard. This will be the user account for logging in to Hystax Acura Control Panel and managing the system. If there are any errors, the system will notify you.

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Step 2. SMTP configuration.

Fill in your Hystax License key that was supposed to be shared with you in advance as well as the settings for accessing your mail server, which will be used to send notifications from Acura and generate periodic reports.

Warning

SMTP server with TLS/SSL encryption is required to proceed with deployment.

If you prefer a public SMTP server associated with your email address (gmail, yahoo etc.), please find its settings online. In case of a private SMTP server, contact your network administrator for further details.

A sample notification will be sent to the specified "Test email" to verify the functionality when you click "Next".

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Step 3. Target cloud configuration.

Fill in all the fields by providing cloud configuration details. Use question mark icons to get hints on the fields. After you click "Next", the Setup Wizard will validate the entered data and notify you in case of an error.

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Detailed description of the fields.

The specified Flexible Engine user should have the following rights for Hystax Acura to operate correctly:

Import image
Launch instance
Create volume
Attach volume to instance
Detach volume from instance
Create volume snapshot
Create volume from snapshot
Remove snapshot
Remove volume
Manage networks

Click "Next" to start cloud validation.

Step 4. Log in.

Installation is complete, and you can now log in to the system using credentials entered in the first step.

Step4

Congratulations, you are now ready to use Acura! Just enter the administrator username and password specified on the first step of installation in the login page of the solution.