Virtual appliance deployment
The TrendMiner Virtual Appliance is imported into a virtualization environment. TrendMiner provides images for VMware ESXi and Microsoft Hyper-V.
TrendMiner supports these hypervisors:
VMware ESXi 5.5 or higher
Microsoft Windows Hyper-V Server 2012.R2 or higher
The TrendMiner Virtual Appliance is a complete virtual machine that contains the infrastructure to run TrendMiner. TrendMiner pre-configures the Virtual Appliance to conform to various industry standards related to security including:
Operating System patches are included with each TrendMiner update
A firewall is enabled to limit network access
SELinux is enabled in Enforcing mode
TrendMiner services run isolated in pods
The TrendMiner Virtual Appliance provides a management interface to configure the infrastructure. Operational concerns can be configured here. Basic level monitoring is included in the Virtual Appliance. Mail alerts will be sent to a configurable mail address when the available disk space is less than 20% or when critical application components fail.
Required input to complete a Virtual Appliance install includes:
IP address and netmask
Network gateway
DNS servers: name resolution of other services
NTP servers: ensure time synchronization, required for security and a consistent UX
Mail relay: required to use admin and functional monitoring capabilities
Other prerequisites:
Gigabit Ethernet or better is required for TrendMiner to work.
Full root permissions on the Linux OS (running the command
idshould result in something likeuid=0(root) gid=0(root) groups=0(root))
Important
The TrendMiner appliance uses the following default IP addresses/ranges:
These IP addresses should not be used by other applications/servers/clients which need to connect to TrendMiner or to which TrendMiner needs to connect, e.g. IPs assigned to clients connecting to TrendMiner, an AD server configured in TrendMiner, a connector to which TrendMiner needs to connect, ... If your company is already using one or more of these IP addresses it is possible to change the IP ranges for TrendMiner. In this case please contact TrendMiner support before starting the installation.
The installation of TrendMiner as a virtual appliance consists of 3 consecutive steps: