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  • 1.  Virtual mobility conductors - 8.10.0.5

    Posted Dec 22, 2022 01:34 PM
    Hi,

    I know the supported virtualisation system of choice for Aruba Mobility Conductors is clearly stated as VMWare/ESXi.

    Our test environment has been migrated to XenServer so I've been trying to make a Virtual MM work on Xen. Fairly soon after starting the install process when it gets to "Loading Modules" the VM aborts the install and powers off. Before I put a lot of time into this problem does anyone run a virtual MM on Xen rather than VMware or is this more a case of doesn't work rather than not supported?

    Obviously for production we're sticking with VMWare as the supported platform!

    Many thanks,
    Richard


  • 2.  RE: Virtual mobility conductors - 8.10.0.5

    Posted Jan 02, 2023 05:16 AM
    Hi Richard,

    The simple answer is that only VMware/Hyper-V/KVM are supported.
    https://www.arubanetworks.com/techdocs/ArubaOS-8.x-Books/810/ArubaOS-8.10.0.0-Virtual-Appliance-Installation-Guide.pdf

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  • 3.  RE: Virtual mobility conductors - 8.10.0.5

    Posted Jan 09, 2023 02:06 PM

    On the topic of a virtual MCndr...the installation guide says you need a minimum of 8Gb disk space for an MM-500 but when loading up the OVA, there are two disks, one is 4Gb and the is 6Gb....page 11 - table 4.

    Besides upping the vCPU and RAM to meet the minimum criteria for an MM-500, what am I supposed to do with the disks? 

    The guide mentions only 1 disk but the OVA provisions 2 of them....


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  • 4.  RE: Virtual mobility conductors - 8.10.0.5

    Posted Jan 09, 2023 02:49 PM
    The first 4GB disk is the installation partition.
    The seccond 6GB disk you need to resize before power-on the VM and do the installation.

    Don't change the second disk size after installation.

    For the recommend deployment size / disk size see the installation guide. 10GB is fine for a MM-VA-500 deployment.

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  • 5.  RE: Virtual mobility conductors - 8.10.0.5

    Posted Jan 11, 2023 09:35 AM
    Hello,
    I'm interested in this thread because we are facing an installation of Virtual Mobility Conductors on a Nutanix Hyperconverged System. The Nutanix Virtualization software (AHV) is KVM based , so is it a supported platform for Mobility Conductor installation?
    Many thanks
    Kind regards
    Alessandro
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  • 6.  RE: Virtual mobility conductors - 8.10.0.5

    Posted Jan 11, 2023 03:45 PM
    As far as I know, unless specified in the installation manual, it is not supported/tested/does not work properly.  We tried to get this working at a customer and some things didn't work.  Eventually support said it was not tested and we should not try anymore.

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  • 7.  RE: Virtual mobility conductors - 8.10.0.5

    Posted Jan 13, 2023 05:19 AM
    Thanks a lot
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  • 8.  RE: Virtual mobility conductors - 8.10.0.5

    Posted Jan 12, 2023 09:33 AM
    Alessandro,
    We tried to install the Mobility Conductor on Nutanix a couple of years ago.  At that time it did not work on AHV and Aruba would not support.
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