13.2 Replacement PTM Appliance Requirements

Use the guidelines in Table 13-2 to deploy and configure the replacement PTM Appliance. You can use the upgrade as an opportunity to increase the sizes for the RAM, CPU, and disks for the Appliance VM.

Table 13-1 PTM Appliance Configuration Guidelines

Requirements

Guidelines

VM Requirements

VMware folder and datastore

In VMware, set up a new VMware folder and datastore that you will use for the replacement PTM Appliance VM and storage resources.

Disk 1 Boot

The boot disk contains the system files, appliance-specific software, and event logs.

Disk 2 (/vastorage)

Disk 2 will be used for the PTM Server and Connector software, PTM database, configuration files, and log files.

Disk 3 (/vastorage_old)

As part of the upgrade preparation, you export the data from the existing PTM database to a file on Disk 2 of your existing PTM 2019.2 Appliance. You will copy the old Disk 2 to the datastore for the replacement Appliance, and rename the disk as /vastorage_old. You will attach the disk as Disk 3 temporarily on the replacement Appliance when you import the exported data to the database on the replacement Appliance.

Appliance Configuration Requirements

Passwords and Time Zone page

  • vaadmin user password

    Set up the password to log in to the Appliance Management Console on this appliance.

  • root user password

    Set up the password to log in with root privileges to the appliance virtual machine.

  • NTP Server IP address or DNS name

  • Region

  • Time zone

Network Configuration page

The IP address and communications information will be set according to the network where you deploy the VM.

  • Static IP address for the VM

  • Network mask

  • Gateway IP address

  • DNS host name associated with the static IP address

  • DNS server IP address

  • Domain search

Disk 2 setup page

Select the Hard Disk 2 that you created for /vastorage, then accept the other defaults.

Initial PTM Server Configuration Requirements

PostgreSQL Database Connection

Use the settings for the database that you used for the old PTM Appliance. Typical deployments use the following default settings. See PTM Database.

  • Database host: localhost

  • Database port: 5432

  • Database Administrator credentials: The installation automatically creates a PostgreSQL database administrator user and password.

  • Create New Database: Selected

  • Database name: transmgr

  • Database user name: tmadmin

Initial User Configuration

Provide the full name, a valid email address, and a password for a trusted user who will be the System Administrator user of the PTM Server Web Interface. This user has rights across all projects and organizations.

Web server Configuration

Recommended: secure port 8183