Installing
Download the latest version of the IBM® WebSphere® MQ Hypervisor editions from Passport Advantage. Uncompress the installation files and add the files you require onto the target server.
Before you begin
- Check that you can establish an active connection to the appliance.
- Check that your user ID on the appliance has one of the
following permissions:
- Create new catalog content.
- Cloud administration.
From the appliance user interface, click and in the list of users, click your user name.
About this task
The IBM WebSphere MQ Hypervisor Edition eAssemblies on Passport Advantage contain compressed files in .tgz format. One contains the virtual image for VMware ESX hypervisor, and the other the virtual image and script packages for IBM Workload Deployer or IBM PureApplication System. Load the same virtual image and script packages on either appliance.
The preliminary installation steps are to download and uncompress the installation files and transfer the files to the target server or appliance. Then manually load the IBM WebSphere MQ virtual image for IBM WebSphere MQ Hypervisor Edition for Red Hat® Enterprise Linux® intoVMware ESX hypervisor, or add the script bundles and the virtual images to the catalog on either IBM Workload Deployer or IBM PureApplication System appliances. The instructions are the same for both appliances.