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Best Practices when using vMotion with a Guardium Appliance

• Configure your environment to support vMotion using VMware documentation. Documentation can be found at  https://www.vmware.com/ . Contact VMware Support for configuration assistance.

• Because data is transferring between Hypervisors in a Host vMotion, and storage systems in a Storage vMotion, take into consideration that the Guardium appliance should be treated as a high performance, high transaction system. Due to this, vMotion should be considered when the Guardium appliance is at a low level of activity or shutdown.

• The vMotion process is transparent to the virtual guest and should not affect the guest system. However, as part of a robust disaster recovery plan, verify that your backup and restore procedures are up to date before using vMotion migrations.

• Install VMWare tools on the Guardium appliance.

Installing VMWare tools on Guardium appliance

Method 1:

1. Open the VM client/console and select the VM instance that contains the InfoSphere Guardium appliance. Right-click the instance, select (from the popup menu) "Guest" => "Install/upgrade VMware tools". This enables the instance to access the VMware tools via a mount point. 
2. Run the CLI command (from within the VM client/console),  setup vmware_tools install, to install VM tools.

Method 2:

1. Open the VMware VI Client, and log on to either a VirtualCenter? Server, or the ESX Server host on which you want to upgrade the VMware Tools.
 
2. If logged into a VirtualCenter? Server, click Inventory in the navigation bar, expand the inventory as needed, and select the virtual machine on which you want to upgrade VMware Tools.
 
3. On the Summary tab, click Edit Settings.
 
4. Select CD/DVD Drive 1.
 
5. Select the following option to determine from where the virtual CD-ROM/DVD device will read the VMware Tools program.
 
 
Datastore ISO File - Click Browse and select the VMware Tools ISO file on a datastore. If you have not already done so, copy the VMware Tools ISO file to a datastore accessible from the ESX Server host on which the virtual machine is installed.
 
**Please note that the filename (naming convention) for the VMware Tools package should remain intact and not modified when creating the ISO image. ** You may use the following Linux command to create the ISO (this was created using RHEL) 
 
mkisofs -r -J -L -l -allow-lowercase -allow-multidot -N -v -d -o vmware_tools3.iso vmware_tools/
 
6. Under Device status check the Connected checkbox.
 
7. Click OK.
 
8. From the VM Console screen, login as CLI.
 
9. Type: setup vmware_tools install and hit Enter.
 
10. When finished, you will be brought back to the CLI prompt. At this point, please disconnect the CD/DVD drive from the ISO on the datastore.