Flexible Engine#

Installation requirements#

Golden image with Hystax Migration (provided by request).
Resources to launch a Flexible Engine virtual machine disk created from the Hystax Migration 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 Migration 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 Migration's deployment is highly recommended to provide you with SSH access to the machine. Although Hystax Engineering team is 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 Migration 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 Migration initial configuration#

Wait 10-20 minutes for the platform to boot up, open a web browser and go to https://<PLATFORM_IP_ADDRESS>/. Please accept the certificate warnings to be redirected to the initial configuration page.

If the platform is inaccessible, refer to this instruction.

Step 1. Admin user creation.

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

Initial product configuration - Setup Wizard Step 1: Admin user creation

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 used to send notifications from Migration 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 is sent to the specified "Test email" to verify the functionality when you click "Next".

Initial product configuration - Setup Wizard Step 2: SMTP configuration

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 validates the entered data and notifies you in case of an error.

Initial product configuration - Setup Wizard Step 3: Flexible Engine target cloud configuration

Detailed description of the fields.

The specified Flexible Engine user should have the following rights for Hystax Migration 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.

Initial product configuration - Setup Wizard Step 4: Login

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