Edge Extend Server Virtual Machine

This guide covers the network configuration of the Edge Extend Server running as a virtual machine in your own private or public cloud environment. Once network configuration is complete see Edge Extend Server to continue setup.

For general documentation see Edge Extend.

You need to prepare/collect the following information before you can complete this configuration guide:

• Machine image of the controller software in your preferred format.
• Ability to launch a virtual machine with:
  • A static IP address
  • A fully qualified domain name (recommended)
  • Open SSH port 22 for network configuration
  • Open HTTPS port 443 for administration
  • Open UDP port 443 for connection by one or more SMBStream Agents.

Download the Edge Extend Server image and deploy it to a hypervisor that is on the same local network as your target file servers.

The controller should be configured with at least:

• vCPUs - 2
• Memory - 2 GB
• Disk - 40 GB (SSD)

On AWS this corresponds to a t3.small

The following inbound firewall rules are required.

* My IP - You could restrict this to the IP addresses you are logging in from.

You should be able to bring up a web page at port 443.

https://<ip-address>:8443

Since the virtual machine currently has a self-signed certificate your browser may show a warning that the site is untrusted.

Check that the instance can be accessed using a standalone SSH client. The username is smbstream and the initial password is QuickChangeM3. For example:

ssh smbstream@34.194.216.200

(If the command freezes check that your appliance allows SSH access (port 22) from your IP address.)

Check that you can become root with the initial password MakeM4Secure.

su

This will be required to complete the configuration.

Out of the box, the appliance comes preconfigured for DHCP. For most environments, you will need a static IP address. To change from DHCP to a static IP address edit the following file:

/etc/network/interfaces

Comment out the “inet dhcp” line and uncomment the “inet static” section. The new configuration file, with your own IP addresses, will look like:

# The primary network interface
allow-hotplug eth0
# iface eth0 inet dhcp

iface eth0 inet static
       address 172.20.25.253
       netmask 255.255.255.0
       dns-nameservers 172.20.25.1
       gateway 172.20.25.1

Then restart the appliance to apply the network changes.

reboot

The appliance includes an untrusted SSL certificate.

Once network configuration is complete return to the general Edge Extend Server documentation to continue agent setup.