4.6 Install Appliance

Installing the CloudCIX Appliance Box

1. Using the 4 files from the appliance folder downloaded from Step 4.2 or 4.3, copy them to an USB drive and name the drive as CIDATA

• user-data

• config.json

• meta-data

• env

2. Connect Installer Bootable drive, CIDATA drive and Key board to USB Hub and then connect to the bare metal server.

3. Connect one Ethernet Cable (A minimum of 1Gig) from Management Network to one of the NIC port on this server.

4. To install the ISO on a bare metal server, boot into the external drive Ubuntu Auto Installer USB thumb drive from BIOS on your appliance. Once the server boots from the external drive it will install the host operating system and configures steps in user-data.

5. After the server reboots, the CloudCIX Pod Installer program will be launched.

6. Verify all “appliance_a_install” tests have pass by selecting “Pod Utility” then “Test Results”.