Deploy & Configure Acclaim Cloud Platform

The ACP Server is provided in a bootable ISO image created using Clonezilla https://partclone.org/. You need to prepare your own server and initialize it using this image. To do this

  1. Provision a new server
    1. OS: Ubuntu 64-bit
    2. Prepare a new partition for the new server.
    3. The size should be ‘server’ size, say 100GB
    4. The absolute minimum size for image is 16GB
    5. The provisioning server must have Virtualization Support, otherwise the ACP Image will not work
  1. Boot the server using this ISO. The Image is available here.
  2. The ISO subsystem will go through several steps to verify the image. Sample images shown below:

  1. Make sure BIOS is set to read the ISO image and boot from it. Choose default or just enter.
  2. Other screens

  1. At the end, it will detect your prepared partition. Agree to overwrite it (two confirmations required)

  1. You will get this harmless error. Please happily ignore it; just press <Enter> to continue. (BTW: The error is generated because the ISO image was made from a 200GB disk on our release server, and shrank down to 16GB. Because the ACP Server image is only 11GB, there is no issue)

 

  1. Continue until the end without any errors:

  1. Choose Power Off:

  1. Remove the ISO disk and reboot the machine.

 

  1. Login to the image using an ssh client like putty

 

  1. DNS name: vulpe (after Vulpeculae, the red supergiant – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NR_Vulpeculae)
  2. Login: acclaim
  3. Password: changeme
  4. **Change this password to suit your organizations password requirements**

 

  1. The ACP Server is configured with DHCP – it should automatically get an IP from your network:

 

  1. Network config should look as follows:

 

  1. Assign it an IP address in your network. Servers typically have a fixed IP address.
  2. Verify server has virtualization support
    1. % grep –color vmx /proc/cpuinfo
    2. Result should be similar to: (note that there must exist the vmx string). Don’t proceed any further until this step is successful.flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss syscall nx rdtscp lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts nopl xtopology tsc_reliable nonstop_tsc cpuid aperfmperf pni pclmulqdq vmx ssse3 cx16 sse4_1 sse4_2 x2apic popcnt aes hypervisor lahf_lm pti tpr_shadow vnmi ept vpid dtherm ida arat

 

  1. Also configure DNS name of the server so it is accessible within your network using DNS name, in addition to via IP (recommended)
  2. Change server name

 

  1. At this point we are done with this step.
  2. Proceed to next step