Introduction
This document describes the SW installation and initial configuration of the MX-ONE.
Installation Type |
Description |
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Turnkey solution |
The customer has bought both server and SW from Mitel. Mitel provides the operating system SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5 (SLES12 SP5 x86_64) and containing the MX-ONE Software included on Recovery Image. |
SW Only |
The customer provides its own SLES12 SP5 x86_64 compatible Server and Operating System, OS (SLES 12 SP5 x86_64) including Linux support subscription. Mitel provides a Media Kit containing the MX-ONE Software. OS needs to be installed on the server(s). For details, see SW Only Installation on page 12. The hardware clock of the server must also be set to a rather accurate value. |
Virtual Appliance |
A virtual appliance is a virtual machine image designed to run on a virtualization platform. The MX-ONE Service Node Virtual appliance includes the Operating System (SLES12 SP5 x86_64) and the MX-ONE Software. A template file with all settings needed for a new virtual machine is included on the Recovery Image, use the media to install the operating system and application. The MX-ONE Service Node Virtual Appliance runs on top of a VMware infrastructure, vSphere ESXi 8.0 hypervisor (minimum), Hyper-V, Nutanix, and Proxmox VE. ASU-III support virtualization and has been verified with VMware 8.0. ASU-II support virtualization and is officially verified with VMware 7.0. The ASU Lite does not support virtualization. Note that Mitel does not supply any VMware software together with the MX-ONE Service Node. Only UEFI boot works with VMware 8.0 installation on ASU III. Hard drive redundancy is not available on VMware installed on ASU III , because VMware does not support the SW RAID. VMFSL partition takes ~ 120 GB by default is recommended for ASU III. Follow below steps to reduce the size on ASU II:
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