Deploy the BeyondTrust SRA Virtual Appliance into a Nutanix AHV Environment

Review Prerequisites for Nutanix

You must have a Nutanix account and environment already configured.

Before beginning the BeyondTrust SRA Virtual Appliance setup, please review the following prerequisites:

  • Nutanix AHV 20190916.410+.
  • At least 4GB of memory available.
  • At least 140GB of storage available.
  • One 32GB partition for the BeyondTrust OS, and at least 100GB available for logs and recordings.
  • External IP SANs require a 1Gbit or 10Gbit reserved network with a 10K RPM disk or better.

For more information about sizes, please see Review License and Sizing Conditions.

  • A static IP for your SRA Virtual Appliance.
  • A private DNS A-record resolving to the static IP of your SRA Virtual Appliance. A public A-record and a public IP are also required if public clients access the B Series Appliance. The DNS A-record is the fully qualified domain name (FQDN) of your site (support.example.com, for example).

"Public clients" include any client software (browsers, BeyondTrust representative consoles, endpoint clients, etc.) which connect from external networks and VPN(s) local to the B Series Appliance's network.

  • A valid NTP server that is reachable by the B Series Appliance.
  • Ensure that the system time between the host ESXi server and the guest BeyondTrust OS are in sync. Variations by only a few seconds can potentially result in performance or connectivity issues.

Deploy the SRA Virtual Appliance

Administrators can deploy and configure the BeyondTrust SRA Virtual Appliance into their Nutanix AHV environment by following the steps below.

  Nutanix Email

  1. Open the email you received from BeyondTrust Technical Support, and click the Click Here for your BeyondTrust Virtual Appliance (Nutanix AHV) link to download the file. Save the file to an appropriate location to be uploaded to your Nutanix environment.
  2. Log in to Nutanix AHV.

 

The Nutanix screen viewing, adding, and importing images for the image repository

  1. Go to Menu > Virtual Infrastructure > Images and click Add Image to upload the BeyondTrust.qcow2 file to the image repository.

 

The Nutanix screen for adding images.

  1. Click Next.

 

The nutanix screen for selecting image location.

  1. Select the location for the image in your Nutanix cluster.
  2. Click Save.
  3. Go to Home > VM and select + Create VM.

 

The Nutanix Create VM screen, for specifying CPU and memory configuration.

  1. In the Create VM dialog, select the desired CPU and Memory configuration for this Appliance.
  2. Click Next.

 

The Nutanix Create VM screen, for specifying the disk.

  1. Click Attach Disk.

 

The Nutanix Create VM screen, for adding the disk.

  1. Change Operation to Clone from Image Source and select the previously uploaded BeyondTrust image.
  2. Click Add.
  3. Click Attach Disk.

 

The Nutanix Create VM screen, for attaching the disk.

  1. Create a disk of at least 100GiB.

For more information about sizes, please see Review License and Sizing Conditions.

  1. Click Add.
  2. Click the X next to the CD-ROM disk.

 

The Nutanix Create VM screen, for setting the boot configuration.

  1. Select UEFI under Boot Configuration.
  2. Click the Attach to Subnet text button.
  3. Select the desired network in the dropdown.
  4. Click Add.

 

Nutanix Change Boot Configuraiton confirmation message.

  1. Select UEFI Mode and click Confirm on pop-up.
  2. Click Save.
  3. Nutanix AHV begins deploying the BeyondTrust Appliance.
  4. Wait for the appliance to deploy, then select the BeyondTrust Appliance and click Power On.