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1. Snapshot every 1 lal Months Hour Of Day 2 ok Backups performed at some Interval and or at a specific hour of the day Backup Host Group VM HOST x Full every 1 Months 2 Incremental every 1 Days 2 Differential every 1 Weeks 2 Remove Differential Once all changes have been made to the profile you must save it JR Save Apply the backup profile You can now r ly the backup profile to your VMs Select the Backup Profile you want to apply in the list of profiles then either Right Click or press the apply button located at the bottom left A list of images will be shown 88 128 Infinity Help Apply the backup profile Host 0 Host l Host 2 Host 3 Host4 TinyCore hosted hosted Host 1 hosted Host 2 hosted Host 3 hosted Host4 hosted host 0 Win7 wins Cancel Apply Once the Backup Profile has been applied to a VM you can see the Tasks that do the work in the VMs configuration 1 Templates WM Groups gt Tasks 1 Backup Profiles Backups F ga Le Wing 64 ig i ein os Windows 8 64 bit W vem 27 Y Host 1 RAM 1 536 is MiB Shared 0 Host 2 Sa awe Host 3 State POWERED_OFF Host4 Host Group i Not Set D 7 TinyCore hosted RDP Auth HOST B Auto Boot hosted Host 1 hosted Host 2 lt n r sr hosted Host 3 Boot Connect reset Suspend Snapshot
2. A Backup Profile is similar to a Template but is used for configuring Snapshots Backups and Replication A number of Backup profiles can be created to protect VMs in different ways When a Back Profile is applied to a VM that VM will be protected as specified in the Backup Profile VMs are not tied to a Backup Profile Sparse Drives A Sparse virtual hard drive commonly called a Thin drive only uses as much space in the servers storage pool as is written to the drive by the VM Regular non sparse Thick virtual hard drives use as much space in the servers storage pool as the size of the drive regardless of the amount of data written to the drive Sparse drives allow you to configure many more virtual hard drives than the server actually has space for in its storage pool A 1 TB sparse virtual drive can be created even if the servers storage pool only has GB of space available but the VM would only be able to write 1 GB of data to the drive See Sparse Hard Drives for more information Dynamic Reservation Dynamic reservation is a feature of Infinity used with sparse thin disks to ensure that some amount of space is guaranteed to be available to a VM if the Infinity servers storage pool reaches its maximum capacity See Dynamic Reservation for more information Virtual Network Infinity supports the creation of Virtual Networks VMs with network interfaces attached a Virtual Network can only communicate with other VMs with networ
3. VM Advanced Properties en Advanced Settings O Wv IOAPIC W VT x AMD v UJ Synth CPU WV Nested Paging _ Large Pages W vPI HPET 9 USB EHCI _ PAE NX HD Controller sata IntelAhci z CPU Count fa B Execution Cap 100 Chipset piix3 d Settings here need to be supported by the OS installed in the VM Some settings like IOAPIC must be set before installing the OS changing them later will likely cause the VM to fail to boot Descriptions of the settings are show on the right when the mouse is moved over them 77 128 Infinity Help Teleportation Teleportation A VM running on a Host can be able to be moved to another Host while it is running if the CPUs of both hosts are compatible Changing the Host Group setting of a Running VM will cause Infinity to attempt to teleport the VM If teleportation fails the VM should continue running on the original Host Selecting a VM that is running on another Host with a Agent GUI will give the option to attempt teleportation to the local machine File Edit View Help Ricans i Omnil 0 anis IZ Omnil 1 7 Omnil 2 PowerOff Ead Windows 7 TinyCorevM Connect TinyCore Teleport Locally 1 6G VMs can also be teleported by changing the Host Group of a VM while it is running by dragging the VM to a different Host Group in the Administration Console or by selecting the VM and changing its Host Group in the drop down list 78 128 In
4. crx NTP Time Server address Cancel ok All Infinity servers must be able to access the NTP host The NTP service can also be manually configured on the Infinity servers 125 128 Infinity Help Setting a static IP in Solaris11 Setting a static IP in Solaris11 The following is an example of setting the servers IP address to 192 168 1 201 with a netmask of 255 255 255 0 adding a default route to 192 168 1 1 and configuring the server to use 8 8 8 8 and 8 8 4 4 as its DNS servers Disable the NWAM service netadm enable p ncp DefaultFixed Set the static IP address ipadm create ip netO ipadm create adadr T static a 192 168 1 201 24 netOWv4 Adding a default static route route p add default 192 168 1 1 Configure the DNS service svccfg s dns client sve Metwork dns client gt setprop config nameserver 8 8 8 8 8 8 4 4 sve network dns client gt exit svcadm refresh dns client svcadm restart dns client Enable the DNS service svccfg s name service switch svc system name service switch gt setprop config host files dns svc system name service switch gt exit svcadm refresh name service switch 126 128 Infinity Help Setting a static IP in Solaris11 svcadm restart name service switch Set host name svccfg s node setprop config nodename Host Name svcadm refresh node svcadm restart node 127 128 Index A Admin Console
5. File Edit View Help Boot Remotely Va Omnil 1 Z Omnil 2 2 Windows 7 Y P ff S B Force Cancel Install the guest additions 103 128 Infinity Help Install the guest additions For optimal performance of your VM the Guest Additions should be installed in the VM The Guest Additions are installed from VirtualBox Boot the VM locally then select Devices gt Install Guest Additions cy J ec on S c E Oo a E Install Guest Additions A CDROM with the files to install will be attached to the VM Run the installation program from the VM 104 128 Infinity Help Import VMs Import VMs VMs currently configured in VirtualBox on Hosts can be imported to an Infinity Server During an import Infinity will use the settings of the VM to be imported to create a VM on the Infinity Server The VMs virtual hard drives will be copied to the server and attached to the imported VM Depending on network bandwidth and drive size this operation can take some time VMs should not be running during the import process Currently the import process only supports one hard drive controller If your VM has multiple hard drive controllers one controller type will be selected and the hard drives will be attached to that controller e After the import is completed you should review the settings of the imported VM and make changes as necessary e Network configuration i
6. Infinity Help Viewing servers with the Administration Console Infinity Server The Infinity Server is a computer with OpenIndiana OmniOS Solaris 11 or Centos Red Hat Linux OS installed on it as well as the Infinity Server software package Infinity and your VMs use the disk storage configured on the server When virtual hard drives are created by an Infinity user through the Administration console Infinity creates ZFS Volumes and shares them through iSCSI When a VM is booted its virtual hard drives will be shared with security settings that allow only the Host running the VM to access them The server should be configured with at least Gigabyte networking and the Storage Pools should be configured with data protection eg mirroring Proper network configuration is essential and the server should be configured with a static IP address Infinity includes a simple web server to facilitate the installing and running of the Infinity Agent Administration Console and Remote Access interface 22 TechSologic Infinity Viewing servers with the Administration Console Users with the Administration Role can view and manage Infinity servers with the Administration Console 14 128 Infinity Help Viewing servers with the Administration Console Templates o amp VM Groups F Tasks Backup Profiles Backups 5 Server Name msilaptop vE Server IP 192 168 1 52 v solarisll b Gs Agent 0 0 Name data Health ONLINE
7. Once the Group is created VMs and Templates to be deploy as a single unit can be added Select the VM Group name you just created from the VM Group list Click the add button at the bottom of the VMs list A Dialog listing you VMs and Templates will appear 7 Ix AgentHost ES Windows 8 7 Solaris11 EA Windows 7 Cancel ok R Select the VMs or Templates and press OK you can select multiple entries by holding down the SHIFT or CTRL button Your VM Group is now ready to apply to a Host Group To apply a VM Group press the Apply button at the bottom right of the VM Groups tab A dialog will appear allowing you to chose the Host Group you would like to apply the VM Group to 37 128 Infinity Help VM Groups Select Host Group Labl solaris11 test lydia desktop o itiiti l o OK Select the Host Group and press OK Infinity will now clone each of the VMs in the group and assign them to the Host Group If the Host Group is configured as a Replicated Host Group the clones will then be cloned again for each of the Hosts in the Replicated Host Group You can confirm the operation by e Selecting the Hosts Groups list view then e Select the Host Group which you applied the VM group to then e Select the radio button Host Group details By VM at the bottom center of administration console 38 128 Infinity Help Tasks Tasks Tasks are u
8. Soalris10 2 vdi Solaris10 vdi solarisu7 vdi P vTLDisk1 vdi 5 VTLRoot vdi Win2003 vdi P XP wdi File Name Win2003 vdi Files of Type Virtual Drives y Open Cancel Select the file you want to import A window showing the files details should show if the file can be imported UUID 61 a6804 c87a 445c 88c3 6625cd17771d Accessible yes Logical size 10240 MBytes Current size on disk 8451 MBytes Type normal base Storage format VDI Format variant dynamic default In use by VMs XP UUID 5767dfal 0091 4ca0 92ee cSda82cbb1b4 Location MirtualBox VDI XP vdi Previous Next Select Next to continue 107 128 Infinity Help Importing virtual hard drives Destination Server mslaptop v New hard disk name XP Compression W Sparse W sata ix i Hard disk comments cancel ok Select the server to import the hard drive to The hard drives name and comment can be changed Press OK to start importing the drive Depending on the drive size and network bandwidth this operation can take a long time Progress will be indicated in the window below the hard disk comments Once the import has completed the window will close The hard drive can now be added to a VM or selected while creating a new VM 108 128 Infinity Help Backing up a VM Backing up a VM VM backups can be configured using a Backup Profile o
9. 1 lal Minutes M Hour Of Day 1 117 128 Infinity Help Configuring Email Configuring Email To help monitor your servers the Infinity servers can be configured to send Email when there are problems reported in the servers logs The email account information needs to be configured with the Administration console by a user with Administrator rights Edit gt Configure Email Mail Server Settings EMail Server Address Port 25 P _ Authenticate NONE x User Password Default Addresses Destination Source Delete Save Cancel The email ServerAddress is the address of an SMTP server User and Password are for authenticating to the SMTP server The Destination address is the email address the Infinity Servers will send email to The Source address will be set as the source address in the emails sent by the Infinity Servers 118 128 Infinity Help Cloning a VM Cloning a VM VMs can be cloned A clone is an exact copy of the VM Cloning is a very efficient way for creating VMs Right clicking on a VM and selecting clone will show the following dialog Enter new VMs name Windows 7 C W Set Host Group Cancel Clone 0 Many clones of a VM can be created in seconds Clones are VMs so they too can be cloned Hundreds of clones can easily be created If the Set Host Group check box is selected the clones Host Group will be set to match that of
10. Comment NS Create VM 98 128 Infinity Help Create a virtual machine and attach a hard drive to it A Create VM window will appear VM Name Windows 7 Template none w Vendor Microsoft Desktop 7 OS Type Windows 7 64 bit 7 Copies 1 Host Group Cancel Create a Enter a VM Name b For the Vendor drop down list select the appropriate OS category c For the OS Type field select the OS that will be installed in the VM This field allows the VM to perform optimizations for that particular Operating System d Select the Create button Select or create a new hard drive for the VM The Add hard drive to VM window will appear in which you can create a new hard drive or select a pre existing hard drive Server mslaptop iy Hard Drives VM Hard Drives Cantasia Add gt Dos6 22 kotb Restored C 0 PXEcore remaster sol11 0 lt Remove Dos6 22 kotb 0 Comment infintiy 0 ubuntu Windows7newPXE Archicad ubuntu agentl1 0 Ubuntu Agent Solaris11Full New hard drive sata Move up Done 99 128 Infinity Help Create a virtual machine and attach a hard drive to it If a hard drive that is in use by another VM is added to the new VM the option to move or clone the hard drive is given Y Hard drive is in use by another VM do you want to clone the drive Move Cl
11. M USB RAM 512 MiB Shared 0 Ig J Fusion State POWERED_OFF Host Group W mslaptop Ly RDP Auth HOST _ Auto Boot F Boot Connect Reset Suspend 2 Snapshot gt Clone Backup 3r Template gt Comment a Hard Drives Drive Details Size 70G Used 1K Used by Snapshots 0B Manage Drives WE Cnanchat AA b Here we have clicked on the Hard Drive bar where we can manage the VMs virtual hard drives In the button bar in the middle of the details panel there are buttons which can use be to perform various actions to the VM The Template button is used to change a VM into a Template To create a new VM right click in the tree view to the left or in the menu at the top File New virtual machine Servers 28 128 Infinity Help Servers Hae E v solaris11 b amp Agent 0 0 UbuntuAgent Agent 4 0 Agent 3 0 Agent 2 0 tiny core PXECore wins Agent 1 0 Solaris11Full Wwins 0 b amp mslaptop b EQ main Vv Vvvvv vy Servers shows available Infinity Servers By selecting clicking or double clicking Servers in the tree view you will see details of the selected Server on the details panel to the right There are three Infinity servers solaris1 1 mslatop and main The Infinity Server solaris11 has eleven virtual hard drives One virtual hard drive PXECore is not assigned to a VM
12. Tasks O crestem fg advanced setings ostens Wr a a 33 128 Infinity Help Templates Templates Templates are VMs that you have created but do not use directly Templates are cloned to create VMs that you boot on Hosts Templates can not be assigned to Hosts so the data on their drives is protected Once a VM is changed into a Template it can not be undone But you could create a VM from the template the delete the template effectively accomplishing the same thing If changes are made to a template they will not take effect unless the template is later snapshotted This is due to the fact that VMs are actually created from the last snapshot of the template The templates snapshots can be delete but a new snapshot will be created the next time a VM is created from the template VMs can be changed into Templates by pressing the Template button at the far right of the VMs Actions bar J CDROM Name Windows 7 J USB os Windows 7 64 bit gp vem 276 J Fusion 1 024 j MiB RAM iB Shared 0 re T 30 State POWERED_OFF Host Group a msiapto im ROP Auth HOST t O auto Boot Boot amp B Rese Suspe E Snapshot E Clone Backup zx Template Available Templates can be see in the Templates Tab Users must be assigned Template X Templates vm Groups Tasks Backup Profiles Ba 2 AgentHost ls Windows 8 Name Windows 7
13. here some common terms are defined Virtual machine VM This is the special environment for your guest operating system while it is running Normally a VM will be shown as a window on your computer s desktop but it can be displayed in full screen mode or remotely on another computer VMs run on a Host Guest operating system This is the operating system that is running inside the VM and used by your users Theoretically VirtualBox can run any x86 operating system DOS Windows OS 2 FreeBSD OpenBSD but to achieve near native performance of the guest code on your machine a lot of optimizations had to be made to VirtualBox that are specific to certain operating systems So while your favorite operating system may run as a guest VirtualBox officially supports and is optimized for Windows Linux BSD and Solaris Guest Additions This refers to special software packages which are shipped with VirtualBox but designed to be installed inside a VM to improve performance of the guest OS and to add extra features Infinity Server This is a server which defines and manages VMs and their data The infinity Server runs scheduled events like snapshots backups and replication It is managed by regular users and administrators with the Infinity Administration program and the Infinity Agent User A user is a person with an account on the Infinity Server Users can have administration rights to manage all VMs or users can be lim
14. 0 1 localhost loghost 192 168 1 52 infinityserver Solaris Adding the software repository To be able to install Infinity your server has to be configured with the location of the TechSologic repository on the Internet Add the Infinity software repository pkg set publisher g http repository techsologic com techsologic com If all goes well you will see the new publisher added to your OS pkg publisher PUBLISHER TYPE STATUS URI solaris origin online http pkg oracle com solaris release techsologic com origin online http repository techsologic com Installing the software To install infinity run the following command pkg install infinity server When the installation completes start the Infinity server service svcadm enable infinity server Once the server configuration is completed the infinity server service will be online This could take a couple of minutes svcs infinity server STATE STIME FMRI 17 128 Infinity Help Installing Infinity on your server online 13 31 16 sve service infinity server default Services installed As part of the installation four services will have been added svcs a grep infinity disabled Jun_27 svc service infinity agent default online Jun_27 svc service infinity proxy default online Jul_0O1 svc service infinity server default The server service is the actual server service The agent service can be configured and enabled to allow run
15. 19 Admin Console Introduction 22 VM Templates 33 VM Group 36 Tasks 39 Backups 40 Agent 48 Agent configuration settings 50 Bare Metal Support 54 Architecture 12 D Data Protection 83 Backup Profiles 83 Replication 91 Snapshots 94 H Host 41 Configure a Host 43 Host Group 46 How to 97 Create a VM 97 Install VM OS 102 Import VM 105 Import Virtual Hard Disks 107 Backup a VM 109 Restore From a File 111 Restore From a Host 114 Restore From a Snapshot 115 Copying Hard Drives between Servers 116 Configure EMail 118 Clone a VM 119 Execute a Command in a VM 120 Add a Server 122 Enable the Agent service on an Infinity Server 123 Set Time Server 125 Set Static IP in Solaris 126 l Infinity Server 13 Installing Infinity on your server 16 T Terminology 6 U Users 56 V Virtual Machines 59 VM Settings 61 VM Comments 64 VM Hard Drive Properties 65 Hard Drives 67 Sparse Hard Drives 69 Dynamic Reservation 70 Hard Drive Compression 71 VM Users Properties 72 VM Snapshot Properties 73 VM Network Properties 74 VM Audio Properties 75 VM Tasks Properties 76 VM Advanced Properties 77 VM Teleportation 78 VM Remote Access 79 Ww Why Infinity 4 128 128
16. 9 10 Type sate 10 Sync standard J SnapShots 456 5 M Number of snapshots 5 Snapshots a Mon Jul 23 15 47 10 EDT 2012 Mon Jul 23 15 47 16 EDT 2012 Mon Apr 01 16 08 02 EDT 2013 Mon Apr 15 20 29 06 EDT 2013 Sun Jun 23 20 42 05 EDT 2013 iSCSI Target Lun 67 128 Infinity Help Hard Drives The size of a hard drive can be increased by pressing the Grow Disk button Some configuration in the VM is likely needed to be able to use the added space depending on the file system type size ings 701 O W Compression cancel Apply Sparse drives and Dynamic reservation allow you to create many more hard drives and save space on the Infinity server Compression is another way to save space and in some circumstances can even improve performance Or make performance worse Read Only When a VM accesses a read only drive a differencing drive will be created on the Host The VM will have write access to its file systems but those write will be lost when the VM is shut down Primary When hard drives are replicated the primary copy is the copy of the hard drive used by the VM Unselecting the primary check box will trigger a failover and force the secondary to become the primary and the primary to become the secondary Auto Failover is used when the hard drive is replicated to another Infinity server If auto failover is enabled and the server holding the primary copy of the hard drives fails the secondary
17. Clone Backup ou Template hosted Host 4 hosted host 0 Win Task Replicating drive Win8 0 between solaris11 and mslaptop every 1 Minutes 2 Date Last Run Wed Dec 31 19 00 00 EST 1969 Space Used Comment Snapshot every Hour Of Day 2 Lt cancel Task Run Now update Next gt Note Snapshots will only be taken if the VM is running The tasks will also show in the Task panel when logged in with an administrator account 89 128 Infinity Help Apply the backup profile a 4 Templates x VM Groups a Backup Profiles amp Backups 1 and rm 2 g op Snapshot of VM Win8 keeping 144 lt 1 G every 10 Minutes 2 Snapshot of VM Win8 keeping 30 lt 10 G Daily at 0 00 Full backup of VM Win8 to VM HOST every 1 Months 2 Incremental backup of VM Win8 to VM HOST every 1 Days 2 Differential backup of VM Win8 to VM HOST every 1 Weeks 2 Task Date Last Run Space Used Comment Snapshot every 1 a Hour Of Day Replicating drive Win8 0 between solaris11 and mslaptop every 1 Minutes 2 Wed Dec 31 19 00 00 EST 1969 Minutes EJ 2 90 128 Infinity Help Replication in Backup Profiles Replication The hard drives of VMs can be replicated between Infinity servers to protect from loss of access to an Infinity server When a drive is replicated it is copied to a second Infinity server and the copies are kept synchronized by a regu
18. Q Shows the Hard Drives Secondary drive gomg E v solaris11 amp Agent 0 0 UbuntuAgent Agent 4 0 Agent 3 0 Agent 2 0 v tiny core amp tiny core g PXECore The List Tabs allow you to see your objects VMs Host Groups Servers Users and Hard Drives as Lists This provides two major benefits 1 In the list you can select multiple objects and perform functions on them such as deleting many VMs 2 Drag and Drop can be used in many places within the Administration Console and the list along with the object tree facilitate using this feature 32 128 Infinity Help List Tabs For example if you wanted to give a user access to a VM you could select Users view in the object tree and VMs in the List Tabs You would see Users to the left and a list of VMs to the right You could then drag VMs from the right and drop them on the user you what give access to those VMs Wk Templates k VM Groups F Tasks i Backup Profiles Backups oma fe eo Host 0 Gl Gis Host 1 Name v Host 2 gt iii Host 3 os Windows 8 64 bit 4 mko Fosta RAM 512 MiB b andy TinyCore d hosted State hosted Host 1 hosted Host 2 Host Group fei lydia desktop hosted Host 3 RDP Auth HOST hosted Host4 hosted host 0 Win7 Boot Connect Reset wins Comment E Hard Drives Users WB Snapshot a Network Audio amp
19. UbuntuAgenti x Available 153G Capacity 38 Agent 4 0 2 Ja Agent 3 0 Used 101G Size 258G Agent 2 0 ontine tiny core PXECore wins Agent 1 0 a 10 Stats Status Verbose Solaris11Full Wwins 0 Service Reset cpu 12 i 3 R Disk I0 eis MEM a Power Off Network 0 U de ie Memory E w Details ey 2B O EO Host Group Details By TO S Hard drive Details 5y EO O Each Infinity server will have at least one Storage Pool which needs to be OnLine Only online Storage Pools will be used to create virtual hard drives for VMs Storage pools are ZFS pools on the server Service Reset restarts the Infinity Server service on the server Reboot reboots the physical server Power off powers off the physical server If there is an upgrade for the Infinity software available the Upgrade button will be enabled Logs will show the servers system logs 15 128 Infinity Help Installing Infinity on your server Installing Infinity on your server Infinity installs on any computer running Solaris 11 OpenIndiana 151a and greater OmniOS Red Hat or CentOS with ZFS on Linux installed Solaris 11 OpenIndiana and OmniOS use software repositories located on the Internet to make software available to install The root user can use the pkg command to search the repositories and select software to download and install TechSologic has made the Infinity software available for download in such
20. WF Solaris11 ey os Windows 7 64 bit RAM 512 MiB State POWERED_OFF Host Group P test RDP Auth HOST When creating VMs the Template can be selected 34 128 Infinity Help Templates uname Template Z Omnios Ww 64 Vendor Microsoft Desktop X OS Type Windows 8 64 bit v Copies 1 a Host Group pxe w p cancel create Multiple VMs can quickly be created from a Template by increasing the number of copies The VMs names will have a number appended to them The VMs could renamed as you like afterwards 35 128 Infinity Help VM Groups VM Groups Users can create groups of VMs and Templates that can be applied to Host Groups When a VM Group is applied to a Host Groups clones of the VMs and Templates will be assigned to the Host Group This feature helps you to quickly deploy a set of VMs in one simple step To create a VM Group log into the Administration console Select the VM Groups tab P Templates y VM Groups Tasks Backup Profiles Sackups VM Group Deployment A VMs Comment EH windows 7 Ff Solaris11 Es Windows amp Right click gt Create in the VM Group list or press the New button at the bottom left A dialog will appear prompting for the VM Group name 36 128 Infinity Help VM Groups Enter VM Group Name Deployment A Cancel ok Enter the name of the group you want to create
21. each day we will keep 30 days of snapshots and no more than 10GB of space will be used 86 128 Infinity Help Replication Backup Add B Backup e x Host Group VM HOST Full The backup locations are Host Groups The actual location on the Host is configured in the Agents configuration of that Host The special Host Group VM HOST causes the backup to go the the host group the VM is assigned to The Backup types are Full Incremental and Differential All backups are raw block level backups Incremental and Differential backups backup only changed file system blocks where as a Full backup backs up all data Differential Backups backup all changes since the last Full backup was run To restore a Differential it s Full backup must also be available Incremental Backups backup up all changes since the last backup of any type An example backup strategy could be to do monthly Full weekly Differential and daily Incremental Of course you would have to configure your backups to fulfill your specific needs keeping storage needs and the restore process in mind When restoring you will be restoring a full hard drive or VM image Individual file restore is not supported but once your restore is completed you can attach the drive with the file you want to a VM to access the file Clicking the Add button show this window 87 128 Infinity Help Apply the backup profile
22. is added to a VM you will have the option to change its type to match the VMs controller type A VMs controller type is set when the first hard drive is added to it Hard drives that are assigned to VMs are shown as green Unassigned hard drives are brown Adding a hard drive that is currently assigned to another VM will give you the option to either Move or Clone the drive B Add hard drive to VM 66 128 Infinity Help Hard Drives Hard Drives Hard drives created for VMs are ZFS volumes created in disk pools on the Infinity server When a VM is booted on a Host the ZFS volumes for that VM are shared through iSCSI to that Host The Agent creates the VM in VirtualBox and attaches the iSCSI drive to the VM The hard drives of an Infinity server can be viewed by selecting the server in the Servers view of the Administration Console Looe vE v solarisll b amp amp Agent 0 0 b UbuntuAgent Agent 4 0 Agent 3 0 Agent 2 0 tiny core PXECore wins Agent 1 0 Solaris11Full Win8 0 mslaptop BB main Vvvvv vy b b The details of a hard drive can be viewed by clicking or double clicking on the hard drive in the tree view Sze 706 WSparse Comments gt gt gt Used 12 5 G i W Compression Grow Disk Read Only mar Aut ove Name Windows7new Serer main Ro WVM Windows 7 Dynamic Reservation 1 I I 1 I I 1 I I I I 0 il 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
23. so that you will not be prompted each time the Agent starts File Edit View Help ER test TES Ma Omnil 0 SS Boot Remotely 7 Omnil 1 Omnil 2 es PowerOff Sz Windows 7 Connect Teleport Locally 3 4G If the Agent finds your VirtualBox installation the amount of free memory on your agent for running VMs will be shown at the bottom right of the Agent Console 44 128 Infinity Help Configuring a Host to run VMs If you had not installed VirtualBox in the default location you will have to configure the Agent with its location Edit gt Configuration VirtualBox Path opt VirtualBox Browse Agent Name mslaptop Host Group Name mslaptop Server List 192 168 1 14 main Backup Directory home mike infinity backups W Enable Login ID admin Password View Log Level FINEST W Agent Interface yge0 Marvell Yukon 2 Fast Ethernet x Bridged Interface yge0 Marvell Yukon 2 Fast Ethernet x Audio Support solaudio v RDP Command RAM Cap Un Set Host RAM Headless _ Full Screen 3D Use Host Cache _ Kiosk Host RDP _ Auto Reset W Seamless _ Page Fusion _ Apply Cancel The configuration settings affect how VMs are configured in VirtualBox and how the Agent connects to servers If the Host Group the Host belongs to is configured as a Distributed Host Group any VMs assigned to the user account t
24. the appropriate directory and press the Restore button b The Restore process can be viewed by process bar at the bottom of the dialog box The dialog can be closed while the restore is running but do not close the Administration Console until the restore is complete Restore to server main p Backup Type Volume Name Solaris11Full Size 3 2 G Lookin jj mike wW Lz 2 local netbeans 7 3 1 Soll1 Desktop vpworkspace ManageClasses NetBeansProjects TAX vila michaelStapleton Photos tmp webapp1 Music Projects VMShare Solaris11Full tsb netbeans 7 0 1 Scalable VP_Suites o 4 tiny core tsb netbeans 7 1 SDK VP _Suites 3 Windows7new tsb eee T File Name Solaris11Full tsb Files of Type Infinity backups v cancel Restore 0 112 128 Infinity Help Restoring a VM Backup from a local file The jobs progression can be monitored under the Consoles Backups tab Once complete a pop up dialog box titled Restore Ended with the message job has completed will be displayed You can start the restored VM from the VM list view like any other VM The restored VM will will have a name that is equal to the original filename used to restore it alone with the appended string Restored You can simply right click your restored VM and select Rename to modify it 113 128 Infinity Help Restoring a VM Backu
25. the user will have access to their VMs If the Host Group is a Distributed Host Group the user will have access to the VMs assigned to that Host VirtualBox Path opt VirtualBox Browse Agent Name Host Group Name Server List Backup Directory home mike infinity backups Login ID Password Log Level Agent Interface Bridged Interface Audio Support RDP Command RAM Cap HeadLess _ Full Screen _ Host RDP Auto Reset Seamless _ Page Fusion Kiosk _ 192 168 1 14 main W Enable J View FINEST i7 yge0 Marvell Yukon 2 Fast Ethernet a yge0 Marvell Yukon 2 Fast Ethernet i 3D Use Host Cache _ solaudio 7 Host RAM Apply Cancel VMs running on a Host are created in VirtualBox using both the VMs configuration settings on the Infinity server and the Agents configuration settings 49 128 Infinity Help Agent configuration settings Agent configuration settings VirtualBox Path opt VirtualBox Browse Agent Name mslaptop Host Group Name mslaptop Server List 192 168 1 14 main Backup Directory home mike infinity backups W Enable Login ID admin Password L View Log Level FINEST p MI Agent Interface ygeo Marvell Yukon 2 Fast Ethernet Bridged Interface ygeO Marvell Yukon 2 Fast Ethernet x Audio Support solaudio MI RDP Command RAM Cap a Th tee A
26. to access its virtual hard disks from the Infinity Server If the Bare Metal PXE package has been installed on the infinity server a computer can be turned into a host simply by booting it from the network When the Agent is started on a Host it authenticates to the Infinity server and either joins an existing Host Group or creates a new one By default the Agent will try to join a Host Group of the same name as the Host the Agent is running on Hosts can be managed with the Administration Console or through the Agent settings on the Host File Edit View Help J Maing Templates VM Groups Tasks Backup Profles Backups Host Name mslaptop ie a 8 Free Space 49G e RAM 256 56 gt a pe cpu Y af msiaptop pm gt mslapto 4 an VMs Configuration W Omnil 0 a VirtualBox Path soptivirtualBox Agent Name msleptop Host Group Name mslaotop Server List 192 168 1 14 main Backup Directory shome mike nfinityrbackups W Enable Login ID admin Password CJ View Log Level FINEST Agent interface yge0 Marvell Yukon 2 Fast Ethemet 7 Bridged interface yge0 Marvell Yukon 2 Fast Ethemet 1 Audio Support solaudio aj ROP Command RAMCap TH terete pete neeepee epee peetgeeegeregers Unset Host RAM Headless Full Screen Use Host Cache _ Mosk Host RDP Auto Reset W Seamless _ Page Fusion _ 7 Logs Statistics Restor
27. Brown and a virtual hard drive called Agent 0 0 is a secondary drive used in replication The server main has an error in its logs as indicated by the red X symbol Templates x VM Groups E Tasks Backup Profiles Backups Server Name mslaptop Server IP 192 168 1 52 v solarisll i Agent 0 0 Name data Health ONLINE oe Available 153G Capacity 38 Agent 3 0 Used 101G Size 258G Agent 2 0 ontine tiny core PXECore es 10 Stats Status Verbose Solaris11Full Win8 0 Service Reset cpu 12 Palinak Disk 1O 3 O Diskspace 42 Power Off Network 0 an Memory E logs Hard drive Details By amp O O 29 128 Infinity Help Servers Infinity Servers can be added by users with administration rights by Edit Add Server Storage Pools represent storage on the Infinity Server that can be used to create virtual hard drives Only Storage Pools marked OnLine will be used for creating hard drives By clicking on a storage pool you can see details about that pool Pools Name data Health ONLINE rpool 179G Available 153G Capacity 38 backup 161G Used 101G Size 258G OnLine W IO Stats Status Verbose Activity logs of the selected server can be viewed my clicking the Logs button INFO Deleting volume Solaris10 0 a Aug 6 2013 10 08 14 PM com techSologic scalable volumeSvc VolumeSvcimp deleteLocalVolume INFO Deleteing volum
28. E The name of the service is infinityPXE service infinityPXE status Booting the default Bare Metal host Consult your computers documentation to enable PXE and boot from the network The Infinity Bare Metal Agent is a network bootable OS called Tiny Core with VirtualBox OSE and the Infinity software pre installed 54 128 Infinity Help Bare Metal Support The Infinity Agent is started automatically Machine View Devices Help 20 TechSologic server Login Login User D Password LJ Show passworcy Server 192 168 1 14 Host Group Name pre Ly Save Password cancel Login Desc Am EN 2 e Right ctrl A By enabling Kiosk and Full Screen mode in the Agents configuration VMs can be effectively run on the computer without users being aware that they are using a VM Remote access is provided by VNC for VMs running on the Infinity Bare Metal Agent The user name and password to access the VMs is that of the user who logged into the Agent 55 128 Infinity Help User Accounts User Accounts To access Infinity users must authenticate to the Infinity server with a user account The users account settings control what the user can access and do with Infinity There are two broad groups of users in Infinity Administrators and non administrators Users who have administrative accounts have unrestricted access to everything on the infinity server therefor they
29. Infinity Infinity is the most flexible and affordable solution for IT professionals to run manage and share virtual machines in a centralized way Infinity was designed for IT professionals who need to create many VMs and have the maximum flexibility in snapshotting cloning and running those VMs where they want when they want and how they want Users can create and run Virtual Machines on their workstations laptops and servers but when the computer is powered off the VMs are still available to be run on other computers No VM data is kept on the users computer VMs can be teleported between compatible computers Your valuable data is safe on the Infinity server Infinity gives users centralized management of virtual machines VMs and their data but unlike traditional virtualization solutions Hosts running the VMs can be any computer You do not need dedicated servers for running VMs Your computers workstations and servers which are running Windows Mac Linux BSD or Solaris can be used to host VMs alongside their current applications VMs can also be run on the Infinity server like most virtualization products Users can run VMs locally on their workstations giving them maximum performance and flexibility or they can run VMs on other Hosts and access them remotely An Infinity server is an independent SAN storing VM data and managing VMs You do not need to have a separate expensive storage infrastructure The Infinity server ca
30. N A E A A E S A A WO A A E T A E a TA R eet Sly 1 Un Set Host RAM Headless _ Full Screen _ 3D Use Host Cache _ Kiosk Host RDP _ Auto Reset W Seamless _ Page Fusion _ Apply Cancel VirtualBox Path This is the location of the VirtualBox binaries on the Host Agent Name This is the hostname of the Host that the Agent software is installed on Host Group Name This is the name of the Host Group that the agent belongs to Images assigned to this group can be run on this Host Server List 50 128 Infinity Help Agent configuration settings This is the list of Infinity servers known by the agent If there are multiple servers configured and the server the Agent is logged into fails to respond the Agent will automatically attempt to connect to the other servers in the list The Agent regularly polls its server to detect failure Backup Directory This is the location the Agent will write VM backups too The agent will execute preBackup and postBackup scripts if they exist The scripts must be located in the backup directory preBackup is run as preBackup lt backup file name gt lt VM name gt postBackup is run as postBackup lt backup file name gt lt VM name gt lt backup job status gt Possible backup job status messages are Completed Cancelled or Error Login ID and Password If the Login ID and password are set on Agent start up the Agent will use these settings to automaticall
31. User Manual Version 1 2 TechSologic Inc http www techsologic com Table of Contents Why Infinity 4 Terminology 6 Architecture 12 Infinity Server 13 Installing Infinity on your server 16 Admin Console 19 Admin Console Introduction 22 VM Templates 33 VM Group 36 Tasks 39 Backups 40 Host 41 Configure a Host 43 Host Group 46 Agent 48 Agent configuration settings 50 Bare Metal Support 54 Users 56 Virtual Machines 59 VM Settings 61 VM Comments 64 VM Hard Drive Properties 65 Hard Drives 67 Sparse Hard Drives 69 Dynamic Reservation 70 Hard Drive Compression 71 VM Users Properties 72 VM Snapshot Properties 73 VM Network Properties 74 VM Audio Properties 75 VM Tasks Properties 76 VM Advanced Properties 77 VM Teleportation 77 VM Remote Access 79 Data Protection 83 Backup Profiles 83 Replication 91 Snapshots 94 How to 97 Create a VM 97 Install VM OS 102 Import VM 105 Import Virtual Hard Disks 107 Backup a VM 109 Restore From a File 111 Restore From a Host 114 Restore From a Snapshot 115 Copying Hard Drives between Servers 116 Configure EMail 118 Clone a VM 119 Execute a Command in a VM 120 Add a Server 122 Enable the Agent service on an Infinity Server 123 Set Time Server 125 Set Static IP in Solaris 126 Index 128 Infinity Help Infinity is the most flexible and affordable solution for IT professionals to run manage and share virtual machines in a centralized way Why
32. VM locally 4 Add the OS install media to the VM Once VirtualBox starts up it will complain with the following error message FATAL No bootable medium found System halted This is normal since an OS has not yet been installed on the VMs hard drive i Select the Devices menu from VirtualBox ii Select CD DVD Devices and then select the location of the bootable media For this demonstration we will select an ISO file which will boot TinyCore Linux as our O S Machine view Help ATAL No bo CD DVD Devices PR Choose a virtual CD DVD disk file Shared Clipboard _ oi dev 151a7 live x86 iso Drag n Drop _ archlinux 2013 03 15 dual iso EP Network Adapters _ sol 11 1111 live x86 iso ys cyeoe Pale sq Remove disk from virtual drive Enable Remote Display z Install Guest Additions Host D 1 Reset the VM so that is boots from the CD ROM i Select the Machine menu from Virtual box and Select Reset ii Press the Reset button when prompted with the VirtualBox Question dialog 1 Follow the Installation steps from your Operating Systems installation process just as you would on any other machine virtual or not 102 128 Infinity Help Install the guest additions Install Windows gt Windows 7 Language to instal engich Rk Er E ESA Cd English United States Keyboard or input method US 902 PA A ER ctr 4 aff 1 Once the installation completes power off the VM
33. Windows 7 64 Template With Office syspreped Apply Press Apply to save 64 128 Infinity Help VM hard drive properties VM hard drive properties pin o oi Size 70G Used 336 7 M Used by Snapshots 0 B Comment Manage Drives The VMs virtual hard drives are listed and managed here e Selecting a hard drive will cause its properties to be displayed to the right e Size is the configured size of the drive e Used is the actual space this drive uses in the servers Storage Pool e The selected hard drives comments can be seen and edited in the Comment section o Typing in the Comment window and pressing lt Enter gt will save the comment to the hard drive Virtual hard drives can be added and removed by pressing Manage Drives Server main iv Hard Drives a VM Hard Drives Dos6 22 kotb Restored C 0 Add gt E TinycoreHD Windows7new test 3 0 Omnil 0 0 lt Remove PXECore i Solaris11Full _Comment UbuntuAgent l Omnil 0 0 OmniOS Bloody Infinity Omnil 2 0 archicad O infinity 0 0 Archicad OmniOS root L Cantasia Ba New hard drive sata e Move up Done 65 128 Infinity Help VM hard drive properties Each VM has a hard disk controller type shown in the advanced settings of the VM Each hard drive has a type When a drive is selected on the left its type is shown under the comments section When a drive
34. a repository By using this method of software distribution your server will automatically have access to the latest software updates An RPM is available for Red HaT and CentOS The software will install to infinity Prerequisites If Infinity is installed in a VM the VM must have a bridged network interface Internet access to http repository techsologic com during the installation Servers must have static IP address if clustered See Setting a static IP in Solaris11 Root access or equivalent on your server Servers hardware and OS must be properly configured in particular network name resolution should be fully configured for both forward and reverse lookups e Port 80 should be free as it is used by the Infinity service e Port 81 is used for network communication e Port 443 is used by the Proxy service You can disable this service if you do not plan to use it e Linux requires ZFS on linux installed e A ZFS Pool to be used as a Storage Pool You can use the default root ZFS pool but it is recommended that you create a separate ZFS Pool for your VMs and disable the root pool from use by Infinity with the Administration Console after the installation is complete Name resolution In the etc hosts file associate the hostname with the IP hostname infinityserver 1 cat etc hosts 16 128 Infinity Help Installing Infinity on your server Internet host table 1 localhost loghost 127 0
35. ails of the selected VM on the details panel to the right 26 128 Infinity Help VMs Templates J VM Groups F Tasks Backup Profiles Backups ooma win coron vr Windows 7 64 bit by vem 27 Buss os b Host 0 v F Hosta RAM 512 me Shared 0 Fusion Stat gt H Agent 1 0 Tue Jun 26 e POWERED_OFF Host 2 Host Group a mslaptop B Host 3 Host 4 RDP Auth THOST E Auto Boot TinyCore hosted hosted Host 1 Boot connect reset suspend Snapshot E Clone amp Backup t Template hosted Host 2 hosted Host 3 u hosted Host4 i Comment BB Hard Drives amp Users Snapshot Sa Network Audio Tasks on Advanced Settings w Details y 2 O EO Host Group Details By TTO S Hard drive Details Bey amp O OO There are currently fourteen VMs created in Infinity The settings of Win7 are shown in the details panel to the right of the tree view It is currently powered off and is assigned to Host Group lydia desktop Win7 currently has one hard dive Win7 0 The hard drive Agent 1 0 has a single snapshot Infinity easily supports hundreds of snapshots Both hard drives and VMs can be snapshotted The bars at the bottom of the VM details panel can be clicked to expand them which allows you to change additional settings of the VM 27 128 Infinity Help Servers Name Win7 M CDROM os Windows 7 64 bit VRAM 27 2
36. all VMs on a host run identical operating systems e g Windows XP Service Pack 2 Instead of having a complete copy of each operating system in each VM Page Fusion identifies the identical memory pages in use by these operating systems and eliminates the duplicates sharing host memory between several machines deduplication If a VM tries to modify a page that has been shared with other VMs a new page is allocated again for that VM with a copy of the shared page copy on write All this is fully transparent to the virtual machine You may be familiar with this kind of memory overcommitment from other hypervisor products which call this feature page sharing or same page merging However Page Fusion differs significantly from those other solutions whose approaches have several drawbacks 10 128 Infinity Help Terminology 1 Traditional hypervisors scan all guest memory and compute checksums hashes for every single memory page Then they look for pages with identical hashes and compare the entire content of those pages if two pages produce the same hash it is very likely that the pages are identical in content This of course can take rather long especially if the system is not idling As a result the additional memory only becomes available after a significant amount of time this can be hours or even days Even worse this kind of page sharing algorithm generally consumes significant CPU resources and increases the
37. asic architectural view of the Infinity Virtualization Platform User User n Infinity i E angen ava l PL b isk Storage C m ISCSI on ZFS VirtualBox C VirtualBox Agent Java VirtualBox The Infinity server runs Solaris 11 OpenIndiana OmniOS Red Hat or CentOS and stores the configuration of all VMs and their virtual hard drives The Infinity server is an iSCSI SAN The Server also runs regular tasks such as snapshot s for VMs running backups and replication The servers can be configured to host VMs Multiple servers can be used and managed with the Administration Console VMs are assigned to Host Groups Host Groups are composed of one or more Hosts VMs run on Hosts A Host has Java VirtualBox and the Infinity Agent software installed Depending on the type of Host Group a VM booted on a Host Group of multiple Hosts will either boot on the Host with the most free resources or be cloned and run on every Host in the Host Group at the same time 12 128 Infinity Help Architecture The Agent software can be used on a User s desktop without VirtualBox to give the User a simple interface to basically manage and access their VMs through RDP All VM data is kept on and managed by the Infinity server The Infinity server uses the Agent to create and manage VMs on Hosts VMs virtual hard drives on the Infinity server are access by VirtualBox through the iSCSI protocol 13 128
38. buttons change how objects are viewed in the object tree For viewing VMs you can choose by Snapshot or Hard Drive VM Details ey 2B O EO VM Details By 2 HO Shows The VMs hard drives Shows the VMs snapshots mee r gomg wane lt H vE la v 3 Host 0 v J Host 0 gt E Agent o 0 2 29 06 12 7 37 AM gt 3 Host 1 E 29 06 12 7 47 AM gt Host 2 2 29 06 12 7 57 AM b 3 Host 3 29 06 12 8 07 AM b 3 Host 4 2 29 06 12 8 17 AM gt I amp i TinvCore 29 06 12 8 27 AM 8 29 06 12 8 37 AM E 29 08 12 847 AM For Host Groups you can choose to view by Host or VM Host Group Details By T O EEO Host Group Details By T 0 Shows the Host Groups Hosts Shows the Host Groups VMs 31 128 Infinity Help List Tabs gomg v v a Labl b S host 0 b Host 1 b G Host 2 gt S Host 3 gt G Host4 gt a solaris11 P test Bla v v W Labl b G hosted gt a solaris11 b z test b lydia desktop For Hard Drives you can choose to view by Snapshot or Replication Hard drive Details By amp O Shows the Hard Drives Snapshots gowa E v solaris11 b amp amp Agent 0 0 v E ubuntuagent Sat Jun 23 10 44 12 EDT 2012 Sat Jun 23 11 07 23 EDT 201 b Sat Jun 23 11 07 28 EDT 201 k Sat Jun 23 11 07 34 EDT 201 a Agent 2 0 b Sat Jun 23 11 07 39 EDT 201 b Sat Jun 23 11 07 45 EDT 201 List Tabs oasis Le e elm Hard drive Details By amp
39. can access all VMs and the VMs data Administrative accounts should be used sparingly The default administrator account is admin and the default password for the admin account is admin You must should change the default admin account password The admin account can not be deleted or renamed because it is used by the Infinity server You should create at least one administrator account for you to use Regular users can create and manage only their own VMs they do not have access to VMs and other objects they have not created themselves or been granted access to Restricted users can not create or delete VMs or other objects Ad Templates f VM G gomg v amp p admin v mike b Host 0 b 3 Host 1 b 3 Host 2 b 3 Host 3 b 3A Host4 p andy Andy has administrator access mike does not Users accounts with Administrator access will have a brown icon and non administrator account are blue 56 128 Infinity Help User Accounts File Edit View Help Main P Templates zr VM Groups Tasks Backup Profiles i E F User ID mike ve First Name Michael gt amp admin gt amp andy Last Name Stapleton gt mike Role Regular user v VMs T Hosts Templates y Hard Drives fis test KE test c Remove Add Password Details gt we Elali w Detaisey 2 O EO Host Group Detaisey T O 3 Hard drive Details By OQ A users Ro
40. cation 2 Testing a Snapshot every ten minutes keep twenty four hours b Snapshot daily keep for a month Left click in the list or press the New button at the bottom left B Input W Enter new profile name Cancel ok After creating the new Backup Profile you add how you want that profile to protect VMs Replication Replicate Add A E EIF Replicate Serwer A mslaptop Serwer B amp solaris11 Schedule Snapshot every 1 Ja Minutes Hour Of Day 2 If the VMs hard drive in on one of the selected servers it will be replicated to the other If the hard drive is neither server it will be replicated to the first server Server A Snapshot every 10 minutes keep for 24 hours 6 snapshots an hour for 24 hours 144 snapshots 85 128 Infinity Help Replication Snapshot E Add Snapshot rSchedule Snapshot every E Minutes is Hour Of Day 2 Number of snapshots 144 B Maximum Space Used 1 024 g MB We are also limiting the Snapshots to use less that 1GB of space The oldest snapshots will be automatically deleted if there are more than 144 or 1GB of space used Snapshot daily keep for a month Snapshot M Oaa _ Snapshot Schedule Time of day to snapshot 00 00 00 B Number of snapshots 30 B Maximum Space Used 10 240 Z MB T will be done at midnight
41. ccess to a Host Group and they attempt to create a Host Group of the same name the conflict will be resolved by appending the users name to the new Host Group Users sharing a Host Group will not be able to access each others VMs But the VMs could affect each other performance wise if they ran on the same Host Removing VMs from a Replicated Host Group If the original VM is deleted all its clones will also be deleted and removed from the Hosts The original VMs are assigned to the Host group so you can select the VM from the Host Groups details and Right click Delete De Templates o VM Groups Backup Profiles Backups Host Group Name solaris11 Host Group Type Distributed X VMs Boot All Host 2 b amp solaris11 Bossa z test P Host 3 Power off All p lydia desktop JA Host 1 F Host Hosts S solaris11 47 128 Infinity Help Infinity Agent Infinity Agent The Infinity Agent is a Java program installed on a Host and is used by users and the Infinity Servers to manage VMs Configuration settings on the Agent control VM settings like network sound 3D and Kiosk mode Any Changes made to a VM with the VirtualBox tools are temporary and will be lost The Agent includes a GUI that allows configuration of the Agent and presents the logged in user with a list of their VMs Users can choose to boot VMs locally or access a VM running on a remote Host through RDP if the Host running the VM has
42. chnology is technique to efficiently identify these identical memory pages and share them between multiple VMs Note Page Fusion supports only on 64 bit hosts and it is not supported on Mac OS X hosts Page Fusion currently works only with Windows guests 2000 and later 53 128 Infinity Help Bare Metal Support Bare Metal Support VMs can be run on computers that do not have a hard drive or operating system installed This is useful for security reasons or simply to use computers for running VMs without the need to access the OS installed on the computers Data on the hosts hard drive is totally unaffected Infinity makes use of PXE to allow a computer to boot from the network when the infinity PXE package is installed on an Infinity server Bare Metal Support is not Thin Client VMs run on and use the resources of the local Host computer A preconfigured Arch Linux OS image with Java and the Infinity software will boot from the network The infinityPXE service automatically configures proxy DHCP through dnsmasq Install the PXE service on the Infintiy server The PXE package is almost 900MB and includes support for both 32bit and 64bit computers On an Infinity server running Solaris11 install the infinity pxe package pkg install infinity pxe For OpenIndiana and OmniOS install the infinity pxecfg package pkg install infinity pxecfg For Linux install the TSOLInfinityPXE rpm yum install TSOLInfinityPX
43. copy will automatically be promoted to the primary and the VM can be restarted If auto failover was not enabled when a failure happend and is enabled the hard drive will immediately fail over IO Sync controls whether or not the Infinity server caches data writes to the iSCSI targets Caching writes improves performance but could result in some data loss in the case of an Infinity server failure If IO Sync is enabled writes are not cached and the VM will have to wait for every disk IO to be written to stable storage on the server Standard enables write caching Protecting the data stored in virtual hard drives is covered in Data Protection and includes snapshots and backups Hard drives can be copied between Infinity servers by drag and drop 68 128 Infinity Help Sparse Hard Drives Sparse Hard Drives When you create hard drives there is an option to make them sparse sometimes called Thin Normally when you create a hard drive space is reserved on the server equal to the configured size of the drive such that if the servers storage pool had 500GB of free space you would only be able to create ten 50GB drives Attempts to create more would fail even though the VMs hard drives might contain no data at all So a SOGB VM hard drive uses 50GB of space on the server Sparse drives are different The space used by them is equal to the space Used by the VM You wold be able to create a 50TB drive in a storage pool with onl
44. d the agent service is configured and enabled For remote access the VirtualBox extensions should also be installed The VirtualBox Solaris packages can be downloaded from www virtualbox org OmniOS and OpenIndiana also use the Solaris packages On the Infinity Server Unzip the downloaded package gzcat VirtualBox SunOS tar gz tar xvf Install the package pkgadd d VirtualBox pkg If you downloaded the VirtualBox extensions install them VBoxManage extpack install vbox extpack Configure the Agent svcs infinity agent STATE STIME FMRI disabled Jul_04 svc service infinity agent default The Agent service will need an account name and password to authenticate with the Infinity service even though it is on the same server To configure the Agent service and enable it run the infinity agent command as the root account on the Infintiy server config lt user name gt lt password gt lt server gt For example infinity agent config admin admin localhost 123 128 Infinity Help Enable the Agent service on an Infinity server From the Administration Console you should now see the Infinity server listed as a Host 124 128 Infinity Help Set NTP time server Set NTP time server The time on multiple Infinity servers must be the same The Administration console can set the NTP server for all Infinity servers The default NTP server is pool ntp org Edit gt NTP Time Server address
45. d to a VM if the hard dive is on one server it will be replicated to the other If the VMs hard drive is on neither server it will be replicated from the server it is currently on to Server A The copy on Server A will be the Secondary Replicated drives can be seen by changing the Hard drive Details By radio button to show Replication Hard drive Details By Se O Replicated drives will then be seen as below UbuntuAgent v Agent 0 0 amp amp Agent 0 0 amp winl 0 b solaris11 Selecting the Primary shows the hard drive properties below Size 1G W Sparse Comments Used 2 6 M W Compression Grow Disk O Read only W Primary _ Auto Failover Name Dos6 22 kotb Restored C 0 Server 192 168 1 14 VM test Dynamic Reservation 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Type sata 10 Sync standard iy SnapShots 0B Number of snapshots 1 92 128 Infinity Help Replication in Backup Profiles Unchecking the Primary check box will cause immediate fail over making the Secondary the Primary and the Primary the Secondary Do not do this while the VM is running The Failover check box will have Infinity automatically fail over the drives if Infinity detects that the Primary is no longer available when the VM attempts to mount the drive Selecting the Secondary drive shows the properties below Size 16G W Sparse Comments Used 2 6 M W Compression Grow Disk J Read only __ Auto Fa
46. e App posas flelala WM Detailsey 2 O FO Host Group Details 8y TO 306 Hard drive Details By SO 41 128 Infinity Help Host Host solaris11 belongs to the Host Group solaris11 It has 369 GB or space for backing up VMs and hard drives 11 7 GB or RAM are available to VMs The Hosts CPU is only 1 used One VMs is configured on the Host and it is running blue A Host can be moved to another Host Group by either changing the Host Group Name property and restarting the Agent software Or by Drag and Dropping the Host to another Host Group The amount of RAM available to used by VMs on a Host can be capped or over committed by the RAM Cap entry in Agents settings Typically a Host is a users workstation This allows the user to run their VMs independently and take advantage of the processing power of their workstation VMs can be run in full screen or seamless mode and can have access to local devices and files Hosts can also be configured to run a VM in Kiosk mode where the VM is in full screen mode and anyone using the VM can not gain access to the actual Host OS VMs can be configured to automatically start when the Agent software starts by selecting the auto boot check box in the VMs properties 42 128 Infinity Help Configuring a Host to run VMs Configuring a Host to run VMs If the Bare Metal PXE package has been installed on the server a supported computer can be booted from the network
47. e Solaris10 0 Aug 6 2013 10 24 01 PM com techSologic scalable snapshotSvc SnapshotSvcimp snapshotVolume INFO Snapshoting volume Aug 6 2013 10 27 11 PM com techSologic scalable snapshotSvc SnapshotSvclmpl snapshotVolume INFO Snapshoting volume Aug 6 2013 10 43 24 PM com techSologic scalable imageSvc lmagelmpl addVolume INFO Adding volume Solaris10 1 at 1 to image Solaris10 Aug 6 2013 10 43 24 PM com techSologic scalable imageSvc b update INFO Attempt to update non existing Image Aug 6 2013 10 43 24 PM com techSologic scalable imageSvc lmagelmpl addVolume INFO Adding new volume Solaris10 1 Aug 6 2013 10 43 25 PM com techSologic scalable imageSvc b update INFO Attempt to update non existing Image a I Log Level INFO LJ Auto Refresh Email Save Clear Refresh Close If Email has been configured pressing the Email button will Email the selected log to the configured Email address Clearing the servers Error log will clear any warnings Email support can be configure by users with administration rights by Edit Configure Email Statistics of the Server 30 128 Infinity Help Details By buttons cpu 9 Disk I0 a Disk Space 42 Network 0 Memory EEE y Disk I O shows the load of the busiest hard drive on the server Details By buttons VM Details ey 2B O EO Host Group Details By TO Hard drive Details By amp O O The Details By
48. e powered off their configuration in VirtualBox will persist If a VM is removed from the Host Group the clones will be removed from the Hosts and deleted from the server If a VM is added to the group the VM will be cloned and each Host will be assigned a clone VMs in a Replicated Host Groups are easier to manage if applied from a VM Group An example use case is a classroom where each student needs the same set of VMs The classrooms computers are represented by a Replicated Host Group For each course a VM Group could be created At the beginning of a class the appropriate VM Group is applied to the classrooms Host Group The VMs are quickly ready and can all be booted simultaneously from the Host Group BareMetal Some operating system support booting directly from iSCSI targets If the PXE service has been installed on the Infinity server and an OS has been installed properly on a virtual hard drive of the Infinity server a computer can boot directly from the Infinity server without any virtualization A Bare Metal Host Group support one physical host and is identified by its ethernet address This feature is currently in beta testing mode and not fully supported 46 128 Infinity Help Host Group Renaming a Host Group Technically a Host Group can not be renamed Create a new Host Group and move the Hosts to the new Host Group Users can be assigned existing Host Groups to run their VMs on If a user does not have a
49. ed 0 ig MB Submit Cancel If you select an interval of Daily or more you can set the hour the snapshot will be taken O is midnight 94 128 Infinity Help Viewing and managing a VMs Snapshot tasks The Maximum Number setting limits the number of snapshots by deleting the oldest snapshot when creating a new snapshot The space used by snapshots can also be limited by setting some maximum amount of space you want the snapshots to use The oldest snapshots will be deleted until the desired limit is reached A task will be created to do the snapshots Viewing and managing a VMs Snapshot tasks A VMs snapshot tasks can be managed in the Tasks properties of the VM x O Task Snapshot of VM win7 0 keeping 144 lt 1 G every 10 Minutes Date Last Run Tue Jul 24 14 22 13 EDT 2012 Space Used 1 2M Comment Snapshot every Maximum Number 144 g 10 B Minutes z Maximum Space Used Hour Of Day 1 1 024 a MB Cancel Task Run Now Update lt Prey Next gt An administrator can manage all system tasks under the tasks tab Templates VM Groups gt Tasks Backup Profiles Backups Snapshot of VM Host 0 keeping 32 every 1 Minutes Task Snapshot of VM Host 0 keeping 32 every 1 Minutes Date Last Run Fri Jul 06 00 31 29 EDT 2012 Space Used 0B Comment Snapshot every 1 lal Minutes v Hour Of Day 1l 95 128 Infinity Help Viewing and managing a VM
50. emote computers need Java installed The remote proxy service is installed by default on each Infinity server but can be run from any java enabled server There is a link to the Remote Access applet on the Infinity Servers web page 81 128 Infinity Help Remote Access Proxy Agent 2 TechSologic Infinity The service on the Infinity Server is infinity proxy and it must be enabled to allow remote access sves infinity proxy STATE STIME FMRI online 12 00 07 svc service infinity proxy default ire test POWERED_OFF fA Omnil 0 RUNNING HA Omnil 1 POWERED_OFF fA Omnil 2 POWERED_OFF Windows 7 POWERED_OFF E TinyCorevm POWERED_OFF A TinyCore POWERED_OFF Boot Poweroff Connect Refresh Users can see their VMs and the state of those VMs VMs can be viewed through RDP by Connecting to them 82 128 Infinity Help Infinity provides robust protection for Virtual Machines Data Protection Infinity provides robust protection for Virtual Machines e Snapshots e Replication e Backups Snapshots are Point in Time copies of your VMs and or hard drives Infinity allows you to take hundreds of snapshots that can be scheduled or manually created Snapshots are very useful when making changes to a VM and you would like to be able to access the VM as it was before the change Snapshots can be cloned to create VMs VM replication between Infinity servers not only protects a VMs data from s
51. erver failure but also allows VMs to recover from a server failure by simple rebooting VMs can be backup up as files that you can move off site Infinity supports block level incrementals and differentials Backup Profiles Backup profiles makes it easier to protect VMs A backup profile defines how VMs are protected by snapshots backups and replication When a backup profile is applied to a VM scheduled tasks are created to do the work defined in the profile 83 128 Infinity Help Backup Profiles simplify the task of protecting your VMs Backup Profiles Backup Profiles simplify the task of protecting your VMs Backup profiles define how you want VMs to be backed up snapshotted and or replicated between servers F Templates VM Groups F iBackup Profiles Backups Test Systems Name Production Comment oy Number of snapshots 30 Maximum Space Used 0 Backup Host Group VM HOST Incremental every 1 Hours Differential every 1 Days 2 Full every 1 Weeks 2 Qnew Apply Lets say that you had some VMs that host critical business data and other VMs that were used for testing purposes you would not have to protect them in the same way Two Backup Profiles could be created 1 Business Critical a Replicate b Snapshot every ten minutes keep twenty four hours c Snapshot daily keep for a month d Backup nightly 84 128 Infinity Help Repli
52. finity Create a VM Clone a VM Install VM OS Import VM Import Virtual Hard Drive Backup VM Restore From File Restore From Host Restore From Snapshot Copying Hard Drives between Infinity Servers Configure Email Execute an OS Command in a VM Cluster Infinity Server by adding a Server Enable the Agent service on an Infinity Server Set NTP Time Server Set a Static IP in Solaris 11 97 128 Infinity Help Create a virtual machine and attach a hard drive to it Create a virtual machine and attach a hard drive to it 1 Start the infinity server Administration console via the web browser 2 Log in with an unrestricted account In the Administration console select the Main Tab This will allow you to see the new VM that you will create in the next step Ensure that the icon to display the VM list is selected as shown in image below jae v7 v 3 Host 0 gt E Agent o 0 b 9A Host 1 b 3 Host 2 b 3 Host 3 b 3 Host4 b e TinvCore 1 Select the File menu a Select the New Sub menu Item b Select the virtual machine item AG Edit View Help el EEEEEEEE Ea New gt Virtual Machine FE Logout Windows vil os Windows gt ie gt p RAM 1 024 gt Z Omnil 1 State RUNNING Or right click in the tree view and select Create ENE T gt EA Windows 7 Host Group if r TinyCorevM RDP Auth HOS gt TinyCore Power Off
53. finity Help Remote Access Remote Access Remote access to VMs is available in the Administration Console the Infinity Agent and the Remote Proxy client For remote access to work VirtualBox on the Hosts must have the VirtualBox extensions installed If the VM setting for RDP Auth is set to None no user name or password is needed to remotely access a VM running on a host State RUNNING Host Group ef mslaptop RDP Auth HOST Power Off Connect Reset RDP authentication depends on the VMs settings settings of the Agent the VM is running on and what type of user account was used to log into the Infinity Agent Authentication is performed based on the configuration of the Agent and the type of user who started the Agent If the Agent configuration has Host RDP selected user accounts of the OS the Agent is running on are used for authentication instead of Infinity user accounts VirtualBox must be configure appropriately for OS accounts to be used for remote access authentication The user name and password needed to access the VM depends on a few things If the Host is a PXE Bare Metal computer booted from the network or the user that logged into the Infinity Agent was a regular user the remote access password is that of the account used to log into the Agent for all VMs If the user account used to log into the Infinity Agent was an Admin account users get remote access using their Infinity user
54. has clones The hard disk Agent 0 0 C can be attached to a VM to access its contents 116 128 Infinity Help Copying Hard Drives between Servers and Replication Copying Hard Drives between Servers and Replication Drag and Drop is a useful feature and can be used in many places An example is copying a hard drive from one server to another If you drag a hard drive from one server to another this dialog will appear B Copy to Server Do you want to copy the hard drive to the server mslaptop No Yes A Backup Job would be created to copy the hard drive X Templates o amp VM Groups F Backup Profiles Backups pS tone senting fl fe main Replicating drive tiny core between solaris11 and mslaptop 03 07 12 5 36 PM Replicating drive tiny core between solarisll and mslaptop 03 07 12 5 36 PM Running 377 MB 7 9GB 9 5 MB s Copying hard drive win8 from server solaris11 to server mslaptop 03 07 12 11 44 PM And if you had selected Replicate a replication task would be created as well to keep the two copies in sync Templates x VM Groups gt Tasks o Backup Profiles Backups Replicating drive tiny core between solarisll and mslaptop even Task Replicating drive tiny core between solarisl1 and mslaptop every 1 Minutes Date Last Run Tue Jul 03 23 48 04 EDT 2012 Space Used Comment Replication completed Snapshot every
55. hat was used to login will be listed If the Host Group is a Replicated Host Group the VMs assigned to the Host will be listed See the virtual machines section for more information When a VM is powered off its configuration will be removed from VirtualBox unless the Agents Log Level is set to ALL 45 128 Infinity Help Host Group Host Group VMs are assigned to Host Groups to control where they run A Host Group is made up of one or more Hosts There are three types of Host Groups Distributed VMs assigned to a Distributed Host Group will run on one of the Hosts in the group When the VM is booted the Infinity server will poll the Hosts in the group and select the Host with the most available resources If non of the Hosts in the group have enough RAM to run the VM an Error will be shown Distributed Host Groups allow you to treat many Hosts as a single place to run VMs Replicated VMs assigned to a Replicated Host Group will be cloned for each of the Hosts in the group and each Host will be assigned its clone Replicated Host Groups are used when you want each Host to have an independent copy of all VMs in the Host Group If a new Host joins the group a copy of each VM in the group will be created for the Host The VMs assigned to Hosts will be named with the VM name and the Hosts name Users logged into the Host will see only the VMs assigned to the Host and not the usual list of VMs assigned to the user When VMs ar
56. he setting represents the percentage of VM Ram that will be used as Balloon Memory Setting Fusion enables VirtualBoxes Page Fusion for this VM 3D Enables 3D support in the VM The guest utilities must be installed in the VM with 3D video drivers enabled and the Host running the VM must have 3D support enabled Changing the VMs Host Group while it is running will cause Infinity to attempt to teleport the VM RDP Auth controls the authentication method used when connecting to a running VM by RDP e Host RDP Authentication is enabled and configured on the Host running the VM e None RDP Authentication is disabled Anyone can connect to the VM while it is running without being prompted for a user name and password CDROM and USB support can be enabled or disabled Auto Boot When an images Auto Boot property is enabled this causes the the VM to be started automatically when a Host starts Clicking on the VM icon or image at the top right opens a realizable auto updating image of the VMs screen as seen below 62 128 Infinity Help VM Settings Omnil1 0 Windows 7 Double clicking on the VM image will start an RDP connection to the VM Right clicking will bring up the usual popup menu to manage the VM Double clicking on the background will resize the VM images to fit the window 63 128 Infinity Help VM Comments VM Comments Each VM can have a comment description associated with it
57. host will be part of a Host Group with the same name 24 128 Infinity Help Users You can also change the Host Group of an Host by dragging it to another Host Group Users Goel b admin v mike b Host 0 b Host 1 b Host 2 b Host 3 b Host4 Users shows user accounts configured in Infinity By selecting clicking or double clicking users in the tree view you will see details of the selected user on the details panel to the right File Edit View Help Qa v First Name Michael gt amp admin gt n Last Name Stapleton Role Regular user ms Hoste Templates Hard Orves Ml iis test test C Remove O Add Password Show Password Modify Password VM Detaisby 2 O EO Host Group DetailsBy T O amp Hard drive DetailsBy 0 25 128 Infinity Help VMs There are currently three Users the default admin account mike and andy who has administration rights The account mike currently has access to four VMs which are all running To create a new user you can right click in the tree view to the left or in the menu at the top File New User VMs Ad Templates x VM G PaE b 3 Host 0 v 3 Host 1 v E Agent 1 0 Tue Jun 26 b 3 Host 2 b 9A Host 3 b 9 Host4 b ae TinvCore VMs shows VMs configured in Infinity By selecting clicking or double clicking VMs in the tree view you will see det
58. iew Help i Ad Templates i VM Groups Backup Profiles Backups HostName solarisll Free Space 407 8 G a A 3 cu EE 5 D aP tydia desktop VMs Configuration F Host 2 f Fal Host VirtualBox Path opt VirtualBox FA Host4 F Host 3 2A Host 1 Agent Name soleris11 Host Group Name solaris11l Server Ust mslaptop solaris11 main Backup Directory home admin infinity backups Login ID admin Password Log Level INFO Agent Interface neto Ethernet Bridged Interface neto Ethernet Audio Support solaudio RDP Command Headless Full Screen _ 3D J Use Host Cache Kiosk _ Host RDP Auto Reset W Multiplexer Restart Agent VM Details oy 2 O BO Host Group Details ey TTO a Hard drive Details Bay O O Host solaris11 has been selected The details of Host solaris 1 are shown Host solaris11 of the Host Group solaris1 1 has 5 VMs running on it The Hosts configuration can be changed here The Hosts agent software must be restarted for any changes to take effect Restarting the Hosts agent will not affect any running VMs The Host has a configuration property Host Group Name if you change this property the Host will become part of a Host Group of the name you use If a Host Group of this name already exists the Host will be added to the existing Host Group If the Host Group does not already exist one will automatically be created By default each
59. ilable through the ballooning mechanism is only available for re use by VirtualBox It is not returned as free memory to the host Requesting balloon memory from a running guest will therefore not increase the amount of free unallocated memory on the host Effectively memory ballooning is therefore a memory overcommitment mechanism for multiple virtual machines while they are running This can be useful to temporarily start another machine or in more complicated environments for sophisticated memory management of many virtual machines that may be running in parallel depending on how memory is used by the guests Page Fusion Whereas memory ballooning simply reduces the amount of RAM that is available to a VM Page Fusion works differently it avoids memory duplication between several similar running VMs In a server environment running several similar VMs e g with identical operating systems on the same host lots of memory pages are identical VirtualBox s Page Fusion technology introduced with VirtualBox 3 2 is a novel technique to efficiently identify these identical memory pages and share them between multiple VMs VirtualBox supports Page Fusion only on 64 bit hosts and it is not supported on Mac OS X hosts Page Fusion currently works only with Windows guests 2000 and later The more similar the VMs on a given host are the more efficiently Page Fusion can reduce the amount of host memory that is in use It therefore works best if
60. ilover Name Dos6 22 kotb Restored C O Server main VM test Dynamic Reservation Q _ 1 I I I 1 0 1 2 3 4 Type SnapShots 08 10 Syne standard 9 Number of snapshots 2 93 128 Infinity Help Creating a VM Snapshot Snapshots Snapshots are instant point in time copies of VMs and hard drives Infinity snapshots do not negatively affect VM performance and each VM can have many snapshots hundreds are easily supported Snapshots allow you to preserve a VM or hard drive as it is and later access the data as it was when the snapshot was taken Snapshots can be cloned and accessed directly A VM snapshot when cloned creates a new VM exactly as the original was when the snapshot was taken without affecting the original VM or snapshot Snapshots can be manually created or configured to happen regularly by Infinity Snapshots can be backed up as a files and moved offsite protecting you from disaster When a VM is snapshotted each of its hard drive are also snapshotted Creating a VM Snapshot Right clicking on a VM and selecting Snapshot will show the following dialog oe Snapshot VM Host 0 _ C5 Schedule Cancel Now If you want to schedule regular snapshots select Schedule Selecting Now will immediately snapshot the VM Snapshots can be configured to occur regularly at some interval you select Snapshot every B Minutes i7 Maximum Number 32 bad Maximum Space Us
61. ing on the administration link on the Infinity Server with a Java enabled web browser The default administrator account is admin and its default password is admin Regular user accounts should be created for users The console uses port 81 to communicate with the Infinity server for management activities Other ports may need to be opened for backups T TechSologic Server Login i Login User ID admin _ Show Password Server Host Name 192 168 1 14 ID Quit Login 20 128 Infinity Help Infinity Administration Console File Edit View Help Templates 1 VM Groups Tasks Backup Profiles Backups a EJ Name Win7 j cbRom os Windows 7 64 bit D m2 mus 64 RAM 512 MiB Shared 0 W J Fusion State POWERED_OFF p Host Group si mslaptop iy f RDP Auth HOST E Go Auto Boot hosted Host 2 A hosted Host 3 Eott connect reset suspend snapshot amp Clone amp Backup t Template A hosted Host4 hosted host 0 4 Comment 4 BB Hard Drives amp Users Snapshot sa Network O audio i gt Tasks on Advanced Settings T vm Details ay 2 O EO Host Group Details By imo 2 Hard drive Details ay amp O O 21 128 Infinity Help Introduction to the Administration Console Introduction to the Administration Console The Administration Console is the main user interface used to manage Infinity To use the
62. interface the users computer must have Java installed and the user must have an account on the Infinity Server The users account privileges restrict what the user can do when using the console Regular users will only have access to objects that are assigned to them or created by them but Administrators will have access to everything The Administration Console makes extensive use of Drag and Drop and Context Sensitive Menus Right Clicking If you want to do something Right Click on it If you want to move something or give access to something Drag and Drop it To access context sensitive help press the help key board button usually F1 The examples below are with the Admin account so they show everything configured on the servers The following is an overview of the interface At the top of the interface there are a six tabs Ad Templates x VM Groups gt Tasks Backup Profiles Backups Home The Home tab is used to manage most objects Hosts Users VMs Virtual hard drives and Servers Templates Where VM templates are viewed and managed VM Groups VM groups are groups of VMs that can be applied together to a Host Group Tasks Tasks are reoccurring jobs performed by the server such as snapshots and backups All server tasks can be viewed and managed from this tab Back Profiles Where Backup Profiles are listed created and applied to VMs Backups Shows jobs that are moving data between computers Ho
63. ited only to running VMs created for them Users can be given the right to create or destroy VMs or not Regular Users users without administration rights only have access to VMs assigned to them whereas users with administration rights can access all VMs 6 128 Infinity Help Terminology Storage Pool Storage Pools are made up of one or more physical hard drives on the Infinity server The Infinity server makes disk space available from Storage Pools available to VMs as virtual hard drives An Infinity Server can have multiple Storage Pools Storage Pools can and should be created with redundancy to protect them from hard drive failure Host This is a physical computer where virtual machines can be run These computers must have VirtualBox Java and the Infinity Agent software installed A single Infinity server supports many Hosts depending on licensing Infinity Agent The Infinity Agent is software installed on the Host It manages the creating and execution of the VMs Users can use its interface to boot and access their VMs The Agent can be configured to run VMs in kiosk mode where the VM runs full screen and access to the Host is restricted Host Group A Host Group is a grouping of one or more Hosts where VMs run Each VM created with Infinity is assigned to a Host Group When a VM is booted it will boot on one or all of the Hosts in the Host Group depending on the Host Group type The Infinity Agent on the Host
64. k interfaces on the same Virtual Network Virtual Network interfaces can communicate across Hosts Network packets sent on a Virtual Network are sent between Hosts by multicasting the datagrams on the Hosts actual network Infinity supports up to 50 Virtual Networks Teleportation Moving a VM while it is running from one Host to another is called teleportation Balloon Memory VirtualBox can change the amount of host memory that a VM uses while the machine is running Because of how this is implemented this feature is called memory ballooning VirtualBox supports memory ballooning only on 64 bit hosts and it is not supported on Mac OS X hosts Normally to change the amount of memory allocated to a virtual machine one has to shut down the virtual machine entirely and modify its settings With memory ballooning memory that was allocated 9 128 Infinity Help Terminology for a virtual machine can be given to another virtual machine without having to shut the machine down When memory ballooning is requested the VirtualBox Guest Additions which run inside the guest allocate physical memory from the guest operating system on the kernel level and lock this memory down in the guest This ensures that the guest will not use that memory any longer no guest applications can allocate it and the guest kernel will not use it either VirtualBox can then re use this memory and give it to another virtual machine The memory made ava
65. larly running task One copy will be the Primary which is used by the VM and the other is the Secondary Changes made to the primary are copied to the secondary drive on the other server In the event that the Primary becomes unavailable the Secondary can be promoted to be the Primary The VM will now use the copy as its hard drive If the old Primary becomes available again it will be demoted to be the new Secondary Replication will now continue in the opposite direction Replication in Infinity is configured at the VM level so you can choose which VMs are replicated and which copy is the Primary copy This system allows you to spread the network load across multiple Infinity servers by having some Primary drives on one server and other Primary drives on another server Manual Replication Replication can be configured at the drive level by dragging the drive to another server and selecting the Replication option in the dialog B gt Copy to Server Do you want to copy the hard drive to the server mslaptop Replication in Backup Profiles Replication can also be configure in a Backup Profile and applied to VMs 91 128 Infinity Help Replication in Backup Profiles Replicate ServerA main HH amp Serwer B amp solaris1l Schedule Snapshot every 1 Ta Minutes Hour Of Day 2 Interval DAILY Two servers are selected in the Backup Profile When the profile is applie
66. le controls what access they are granted with Infinity Users can be granted access to VMs Templates Hard Drives and Host Groups by adding the objects to the users account Regular User Regular User accounts have the right to create and delete things this means they can add Hosts create VMs and boot their VMs on their Hosts If a regular user deletes something Infinity will simply unassign it from the users account if other users also have access to it When the last user with access to the object deletes it Infinity will then delete it Regular Users can not create Users or change their account Role Restricted User 57 128 Infinity Help User Accounts These users to not have the right to create or delete anything This means they can only run and access VMs and other objects assigned to them Administrator Administrator accounts have unrestricted access to all objects of all users If an Administrator deletes something it is immediately and completely deleted from the system 58 128 Infinity Help Virtual machines Virtual machines Infinity is primarily used by Users to manage their virtual machines VMs VMs are create by Administrators and Regular users with the Administrator Console VMs are assigned to Host Groups and ultimately boot on Hosts When a VM is booted on a Host the Agent software temporarily creates a VM configuration in VirtualBox on the Host Usually once the VM is powered
67. n be running Solaris 11 OpenIndiana or OmniOS The Infinity server can even be installed in a VM since you do not have to run VMs on the server e Infinity has built in scheduled snapshots replication and disk based backups with VM data stored and managed on the Infinity server Third party tools are not needed to provide these services e Snapshots can be configured to protect your files from accidental deletion and corruption Infinity snapshots are highly efficient and do not affect VM performance Snapshots can be turned into VMs allowing you to not only access the VMs data as it was when the snapshot was taken but also to boot the OS and run its services Disaster recovery testing made simple e VMs can be replicated between multiple Infinity servers Asynchronous replication can be configured per VM protecting the VM from an Infinity server failure Replicated VMs can be quickly restarted and access their virtual hard disks from another server 4 128 Infinity Help Infinity is the most flexible and affordable solution for IT professionals to run manage and share virtual machines in a centralized way Multiple Infinity servers automatically replicate configuration data between them so no configuration data will be lost in the event of a failure VMs can be backed up as single files and stored offsite for disaster recovery purposes Infinity supports scheduled Full Differential and Incremental block level backups that can be direc
68. name and password and they must have access to the VM in Infinity If the user account used to log into the Infinity Agent was Not an Admin account the remote access name and password is that of the user that started the Infinity Agent Administration Console 79 128 Infinity Help Remote Access Right click on a VM and select Connect or press the Connect button on the selected VM i ei p IE Name test a oe os DOS B Boot RAM 48 Z M B Power Off State E Suspend J Save State Host Group f mslaptop m Reset RDP Auth HOST Snapshot Clone Power Off Connect Backup Rename Delete Comment CETE o Execute Command areas If the VM View window is open double clicking on a VM in the window will start a remote connection O Omnil 0 oco test ox Windows 7 To aa VM to the VM view window click on the Image of the VM in the VM deatils window 80 128 Infinity Help Remote Access Proxy Agent W CDROM W USB LJ 3D _ Auto Boot E gt clone Backup zt Template Infinity Agent Select a VM and press the Connect button File Edit View Help 17 Omnil 0 F Omnil 1 F Omnil 2 Poweroff j Windows 7 TinyCorevM amp Connect TinyCore _ Teleport Locally 1 6G Remote Access Proxy Agent Infinity can allow users basic remote access to their VMs Network traffic is tunneled through port 443 The r
69. nfinity Help Backups Tab Backups Tab When ever the Infinity server is moving data between servers or to Hosts a backup job is created that can be viewed and managed by administrators from the Infinity Console X Templates Jt VM Groups Backup Profiles Backups Po Rene sig he E Fe main Replicating drive tiny core between solaris11 and mslaptop 03 07 12 5 36 PM Replicating drive tiny core between solarisl1 and mslaptop 03 07 12 5 36 PM Running 377 MB 7 9 GB 9 5 MB s Copying hard drive win8 from server solaris11 to server mslaptop 03 07 12 11 44 PM Selecting a job and right clicking will give the User the option to cancel the job Deleting a job does not stop the job deleting only removes the job status from the Backups Tab 40 128 Infinity Help Host Host A Host is a computer that has Java VirtualBox and the Infinity Agent installed on it Hosts can be running any OS supported by VirtualBox A Host can be headless no graphical screen in which case the VMs must be accessed remotely VirtualBox can be downloaded from www virtualbox org If the VirtualBox Extensions have been installed the VMs can be accessed remotely through RDP When a VM is booted on a host The Infinity Server uses the Infinity Agent to create a VM in VirtualBox using the VM setting configured on the server combined with settings on the Agent VirtualBox has a built in iSCSI initiator that is used by the VM
70. ning VMs on the server The proxy service allows remote access to the VMs by users through RDP from a Java enabled computer Bare Metal PXE support The PXE support package is 771 MB To add Bare Metal support install one of the following packages For Solaris 11 install the infinity pxe package For OmniOS and OpenIndiana install the infinity pxecfg package pkg install infinity pxecfg Linux The server service can be factory reset with the infinity bin factoryReset script All configuration will be lost but configured VM hard disks will be preserved The servers logs are located under infinity logs Your server is now ready and listening on port 80 for web access 18 128 Infinity Help Installing Infinity on your server 2 TechSologic Infinity VMs ra D From a computer with Java 6 or higher installed click on the Administrator link to install and run the Administrator Console If asked what to run the link with select Web Start Trust the presented certificate The administrator account is admin and its default password is admin The default password should be changed 19 128 Infinity Help Infinity Administration Console Infinity Administration Console The Infinity Administration Console is used by Users and Administrators to manage VMs and the Infinity servers The Administration Console can be accessed and installed in the same way as the Agent by click
71. nits of work regularly performed by the Infinity server such as scheduled snapshots backups and replication Tasks performed for a VM can be managed from the tasks properties of the VM in the Infinity Console by a user with access to that VM O Task Snapshot of VM win7 0 keeping 144 lt 1 G every 10 Minutes Date Last Run Tue Jul 24 14 22 13 EDT 2012 Space Used 1 2M Comment Snapshot every 10 Ig Minutes L LJ Hour Of Day Cancel Task lt Prev Maximum Number 144 A B Maximum Space Used k s Run Now Update m Next gt 1 024 When a user with administration rights is logged into the Administration Console they can view and manage all tasks for all VMs and Users Fee Edit View Help Mai Templates VM Groups Backups 7 Backup Profiles 5 tast keeping 500 Full backup of VM test to VM HOST every 1 Weeks 2 R Differential backup of VM test to VM HOST every 1 Days 2 IE incremental backup of wM test to VM HOST every 1 Hours S Replicating drive Dos 22 kotb Restored C D between main and mslaptop every 5 Minutes Task Snapshot of VM test keeping 500 every 1 Minutes Date Last Run Sat Aug 10 18 31 15 EDT 2013 Space Used 0 Comment test Snapshot every Maximum Number soo f 1 B Minutes x Maximum Space Used Hour OF D o f me Cancel Task Run now amp update 39 128 I
72. o Properties This setting controls what kind of sound card is presented to the OS running in the VM The OS in the VM must have drivers to support the selected sound card type Audio Type hda LJ There are three sound card types to choose from e HDA Intel High Definition Audio e AC97 Intel AC 97 e SB16 SoundBlaster 16 The actual Host sound system that produces the sound is selected on each Host in its Audio Support configuration setting 75 128 Infinity Help VM Tasks Properties VM Tasks Properties Task are reoccurring jobs performed by the Infinity servers Tasks can be created to snapshot and backup VMs All Tasks related to a VM will be shown in the VMs Tasks properties and under the general Tasks tab when logged in to the Administration Console as an Administrator Ag Templates f VM Groups S Tasks Backup Profiles Backups Tasks 4s Task Snapshot of VM win7 0 keeping 144 lt 1 G every 10 Minutes Date Last Run Tue Jul 24 14 22 13 EDT 2012 Space Used 1 2M Comment Snapshot every Maximum Number 144 ig 10 B Minutes d Maximum Space Used Hour Of Day 1l 1 024 7 MB Cancel Task Run Now v Update ra Next gt j After making changes to a VMs Task the Update button must be pressed to save the changes To create a VM Task Snapshot the VM and select Schedule a SF 2 Cancel Now 76 128 Infinity Help VM Advanced Properties
73. off the VMs configuration in VirtualBox on the Host is removed File Edit View Help Templates if VM Groups gt Backup Profiles Backups Win7 vj CDROM TT 7 uss I osto os indows 7 64 bit D vew 27 Y F Host RAM 512 5 MiB Shared 0 2A Host 2 F Host 3 State POWERED_OFF F Hosts Host Group a mslaptop E TinyCore A hosted RDP Auth HOST j Auto Boot hosted Host 1 a hosted Host 2 A hosted Host 3 Boot Connect reset suspend 2 Snapshot E Clone amp Backup x Template P hosted Host4 Comment E Hard Drives amp Users Snapshot sa Network O Audio Tasks on Advanced Settings vM Details ay 2 O EO Host Group Details By T O 8 Hard drive Details By amp O The RDP Auth setting controls the Authentication method used to control Remote GUI access to a running VM Host means that authentication settings are enabled and the specific method used is configured on the Host in the Agents configuration settings None means that there is no authentication for remote access When the VMs RDP Auth setting is set to None anyone can connect to the running VM with any RDP client software without being prompted to login Details of remote access can be found here 59 128 Infinity Help Virtual machines When a user starts the Agent on a Host if the Agent belongs to a Distributed Host Group the user will have access to their VMs If the Host G
74. ommands in a VM setHostName 121 128 Infinity Help Add a Server Add a Server Multiple servers can be managed as one by adding them to your existing server New servers being add should not have configuration data on them Doing a factory reset on the server to add will ensure this infinity bin factoryReset To add the server log into your exiting server with the Administration console using an account which has administration rights Select Edit gt Add Server The following dialog will be shown User ID y Password Show Password _ Cancel ok You should be able to select the server in the combination box at the top if not you can type in its host name or IP Enter the user name and password of an account on the new server to add which has administrator rights press OK In about a minute your new server will be added and ready for use The servers will now each store copies of all configuration data to protect you from server failure Note that this does not include VM hard drives created in the Infinity servers storage pools The VMs hard drives should be protected by proper configuration of the storage pools on the Infinity server and by doing regular backups of the VMs 122 128 Infinity Help Enable the Agent service on an Infinity server Enable the Agent service on an Infinity server An Infinity server can be a Host if VirtualBox is installed on the server an
75. ompression Hard Drive Compression Hard drives with compression enabled can use much less space in the servers Storage Pool Compression usually does no have a large negative affect on performance and in many cases can actually increase the performance Changes made to the drives compression setting only affect new data written to the drive 71 128 Infinity Help VM Users Properties VM Users Properties VMs are assigned to Users Users with access to a VM will be shown here amp Users Q User Details First Name admin Last Name administrator User ID admin Remove User Add User When a user is given access to a VM they are free to boot the VM and modify it Users with Administrator access always have access to all VMs whether shown here or not If a User has access to a VM the VM will be shown under the Users properties A User can be give access to a VM by selecting Add User under the VMs Users properties or by adding the VM to the Users account 72 128 Infinity Help VM Snapshot Properties VM Snapshot Properties The VMs Snapshots can be managed here Z Snapshot O 23 07 12 10 16 PM Date 23 07 12 10 19 PM 2 23 07 12 10 16 PM TaskiD 23 07 12 10 19 PM t 23 07 12 10 26 pm COMMEN Delete Snapshot B Update The properties of selected VM Snapshots are shown If a Snapshot was made by a scheduled Task its task ID will be shown Comments for the selec
76. one Selecting New hard drive shows the following dialog Server o mslaptop yi Pool backup 293G e Name Windows 7 Size in GB 20 5 eou W Sparse W Compression Dynamic Reservation Type sata v Comments Windows 7 Cancel ok Select a server and disk pool to create the hard drive on Compression and sparse settings allow you to create more hard drives than would normally be possible gives the space available on the server Once a hard drive has been added to a VM the hard drive will be shown in the VMs details 100 128 Infinity Help Boot the VM on your local host and install the OS Windows 7 Drive Details n Size 70G used 1K Used by Snapshots 08 Comment Hard drive with Windows 7 Manage Drives Adjust the VM properties as needed particularly the amount of RAM Boot the VM on your local host and install the OS 101 128 Infinity Help Installing an Operating System onto a virtual machine Hard drive Installing an Operating System onto a virtual machine Hard drive 1 Ensure that a Host has the Agent software installed and has been configured properly 2 Start the Agent either from the desktop short cut on the Host or by using your servers web page link 3 Boot the VM on the local Host a Select the VM from the list b Click on the Boot Locally button to set the VMs Host Group to the Agents Host Group and boot the
77. ost in the background VM access will be remote only Full Screen VMs will be started in full screen mode 3D 3D acceleration will be available on all VMs If the 3D checkbox is greyed out 3D support is not available on this Host To take advantage of 3D support the VMs must have the VirtualBox utilities installed with 3D support enabled in the VM Use Host Cache By default the VirtualBox will not cache disk IO between the Host and the Infinity server but this option can be enabled Kiosk 52 128 Infinity Help Agent configuration settings In Kiosk mode VMs will be started in full screen and access the the VirtualBox tools will be disabled But if the VM is shut down users will have access to the host system Host RDP By default the Agent configures VirtualBox to use Infinity accounts to control remote RDP access to the VMs running on the Host If Host RDP is enabled the Agent will configure VirtualBox to use accounts on the Host system to authenticate RDP access to VMs Auto Reset When enabled causes the Agent to restart VMs that fail SeamLess The individual windows that are displayed on the desktop of the virtual machine can be mapped on the host s desktop as if the underlying application was actually running on the host Page Fusion In a server environment running several similar VMs e g with identical operating systems on the same host lots of memory pages are identical Page Fusion te
78. p from a Host Restoring a VM Backup from a Host The Administration Console can be used to restore a VM backup from a host Select the Host gomg F v a Labl b host 0 b Host 1 b Host 2 b amp Host 3 b Host4 gt a solaris11 P test At the bottom of the Hosts details panel there is a Restore button Audio Support solaudio O ooo M RDP Command Logs Statistics Restore Apply Pressing Restore displays the following dialog dos_DIFF_1375383849981 tsb Backup Type Fulllmage dos DIFF_1375384149956 tsb aia des dos_DIFF_1375384501607 tsb Size 26M dos_FULL_1375383549912 tsb Date 01 08 13 2 59 PM Delete 0 Restore to server main Restore J Close Select the backup to be restored and click Restore Progress of the restore is displayed in the dialog as well as under the Administration Consoles Backups tab The Administration Console can be closed while the restore is in progress 114 128 Infinity Help Creating a hard drive from a hard drive snapshot Restore from a Snapshot Data can be retrieved from a snapshot by cloning the snapshot to create a VM or hard drive If a VM snapshot is cloned it produces an new VM You can safely boot the VM and access it s data as it was when the snapshot was taken Then new VM can be safely deleted without affecting the original VM snapshot The ability to effectively boot snapshots allows you to test for when a sys
79. r manually To manually backup a VM 1 Log into the Administration console from the computer you would like to save the VMs backup on if backing up locally It does not have to be a Host 2 Go to the VM list view right click the VM and select the Backup menu option a When a VM backup is performed all VM settings are backed up along with all the data contained within the attached hard drive s as a single file Main Templates VM Groups Tasks Backur sy alii Be Name Windows 7 v os Windows 7 64 t gt I test gt FA omnil 0 RAM 896 MiB gt i Omnil 1 State POWERED_OFF gt FF Omnil 2 gt 23 windows Host Group gj mslaptop WW Save State Reset Snapshot Clone Rename Delete Connect 1 A dialog box will appear allowing the selection of where the backup will be sent Locally The VM will be backup to the computer you are running the Administration console on Host The VM will be backed up to a Host you select 109 128 Infinity Help Backing up a VM Backup location Host Locally If the Locally option is selected a dialog will appear allowing you to select the file name and directory of the backup file Look in Lia Le J a Te cloud exitvPN Desktop G firefox Documents glassfish 3 1 1 Downloads Icons File Name Omnil1 0 Files of Type All Files i Save cancel 0 Back
80. roup is a Replicated Host Group the user will have access to the VMs assigned to that Host File Edit View Help iia test i ee a ic teinntin ZF Omnil 1 Bom _ Poweroff j EA Windows 7 Connect Teleport Locall 3 4G If a VM is currently assigned to a remote host and is not currently running the user can press Boot Remotely to cause the VMs to boot on the remote host Pressing Boot Locally will move the VM to the local Host and boot the VM on the users computer 60 128 Infinity Help VM Settings VM Settings Most changes to settings are saved immediately but require a reboot of the VM to take effect Name Win7 M CDROM os Windows 7 64 bit E vwa 27 Muss RAM 512 B MiB Shared 0 W g Fusion State POWERED_OFF Host Group B mslaptop Ly RDP Auth HOST X E Auto Boot Power Off Connect Reset T Suspend Snapshot g gt Clone Backup 3y Template Comment 4p H Hard Drives amp Users O Snapshot 4p wa Network O B Audio 4 Tasks p Q ex Advanced Settings The maximum RAM available to VMs on a Host can be capped in the Hosts RAM Cap configuration setting Shared and Fusion 61 128 Infinity Help VM Settings only supported on 64 bit Hosts The VirtualBox client utilities must be installed in the VM Setting Shared configures the VM to use VirtualBoxes Balloon Memory facility T
81. s Snapshot tasks To view the VM snapshots under VMs in the object tree select Snapshots in the VM Details By radio buttons at the bottom of the Administration Console VM Details 6y 2 HO VMs in the object tree will now show snapshots instead of hard drives Templates VM Groups Backup Profiles Backups Date 29 06 12 7 47 AM VM Host 0 Type Snapshot Host File Name 29 06 12 8 07 AM 29 06 12 8 17 AM E 29 06 12 8 27 AM Snapshots 2 29 06 12 8 37 AM 2 29 06 12 8 47 AM 29 06 12 8 57 AM 2 29 06 12 9 07 AM 29 06 12 9 17 AM 29 06 12 9 27 AM 29 06 12 9 37 AM E 29 06 12 9 47 AM 29 06 12 9 57 AM 29 06 12 10 07 AM 1 Fri Jun 29 07 47 53 EDT 2012 Comment A VMs snapshots can also be seen in the Snapshot properties of a VM Snapshot 4 29 06 12 7 37 At a Date 29 06 12 7 47 AM 29 06 12 7 47 A TaskiD 0215fc49 d12d4ed2 b09e4dcOcf8919ee 29 06 12 7 57 Al 29 06 12 8 07 AI 29 06 12 8 17 Al Ee 29 06 12 8 27 AI 29 06 12 8 37 Al 29 06 12 8 47 Al 29 06 12 8 57 Al 29 06 12 9 07 At 2 29 06 12 9 17 AI 29 06 12 9 27 Al 29 06 12 9 37 Al eee x Delete Snapshot Update 7 gt _ Multiple snapshots can be selected and deleted in this view 96 128 Infinity Help How To How To This section shows various ways to accomplish different tasks with In
82. s not imported e The VM on the Host will not be affected 1 Start the Agent on the Host with the VM 2 Select File gt Import VM A list of available VMs is presented Select VM a Solaris1 0 Win2003 XP PXEtest TinyCoreDev xpArchicad OmniOS Ubuntu tcorePXE tinycore64 tinycorepure64 archPXE Solaris11 v Help Cancel Next 1 Select the VMs you want to import and click Next A panel showing the import process is presented 105 128 Infinity Help Import VMs Destination Server l cancel Import VM 1 Select the Infinity server to import the VM hard drives to 2 Press Import VM to start the import process As the import progresses status updates will be shown Import VM Solaris10 Controller type set to ide 2 Drives to import Importing hard drive c49861f7 9ab0 4080 894c 453d51e5d220 Volume size 10336M 0 a a a d Cancel Import vm 106 128 Infinity Help Importing virtual hard drives Importing virtual hard drives The Infinity Agent on a Host with VirtualBox installed can be used to import virtual hard drives created by VirtualBox or other virtualization products to the Infintiy server VDI VMDK and VHD files are supported To import a virtual hard disk file start the Infinity Agent and select File gt Import HD a Look In ji VDI H a l e la Ee nova cust image sdk67 vmdk
83. some space in the servers storage pool over and above the actual pace used As a VM writes data to the drive the server monitors the drive If a VM had a 10GB drive which it had written 1GB of data to it would be using 1GB of space in the servers storage pool If the storage pool on the server became full the next write by the VM would fail Dynamic reservation prereserves extra space by adding some configurable percentage to the used space and reserves it in advance Size 1G W Sparse Comments Used 2 6M W Compression Grow Disk O Read Only W Primary Auto Failover Name Dos6 22 kotb Restored C 0 Server 192 168 1 14 VM test Dynamic Reservation l I I ie 1 2 3 4 3 6 T4 8 9 10 Type 10 Sync standard ir SnapShots 0B Number of snapshots 1 The hard drive above is 50GB and configured as a sparse drive with dynamic reservation set to 10 A drive created this way would start with 5GB of space garanteed to be available even if the servers storage pool became full If a VM wrote 25GB of data to the drive 5GB more would still be available guaranteeing 30GB in total The infinity server regularly checks the drives actual used space and adjust a reservation in the server pool for the drive The end result is that if the storage pool reaches its maximum capacity the VMs would not immediately fail as they would without dynamic reservation 70 128 Infinity Help Hard Drive C
84. sts and Servers Currently running and completed backups can be managed here The Home Tab 22 128 Infinity Help Host groups The Home tab has buttons at the top left that allow you to select what category of objects you want to manage gomg Host Groups Users VMs Servers Host groups a Templates 3y VM gomg v v a Labi b host 0 b S Host 1 b S Host 2 b G Host 3 b S Host4 v a solaris11 b solaris11 test b lydia desktop Host Groups shows the groups and Hosts of those groups By selecting clicking or double clicking objects in the tree view you will see details of the selected object Group or Host on the details panel to the right Ae Templates x WM Groups gt Tasks Backup Profiles Backups Host Group Name solaris11 v a abl 3 gt 2 host o Host Group Type Distributed B b Host 1 a b S Host 2 Cc b S Host 3 C b Host4 VMs Boot All solaris Host 2 7 actari ha s es Z Host4 Power off All z 7 Host 3 b lydia desktop A Host 1 A Host l Hosts S solaris11 23 128 Infinity Help Host groups In this view we can see that there are four Host Groups group Lab1 which has five Hosts solaris1 1 with one Host called solaris11 test which has no online Hosts and lydia desktop Five VMs are assigned to Host Group solaris11 a Infinity Administration BOQ File Edit V
85. ted Snapshot can be changed here Press Update to save comment changes Multiple Snapshots can be selected and deleted 73 128 Infinity Help VM Network Properties VM Network Properties VMs can have up to 8 network interface cards NICs intel PRO 1000 MT Desktop 82540EM bridged Type Intel PRO 1000 MT Desktop 82540EM Intel PRO 1000 MT Desktop 82540EM virtual 1 gic Connection bridged Network 1 Remove add Update There are six different types of NICs to choose from The OS installed in the VM must have drivers for the selected NIC Each NIC can be connected to the network in one of three ways e NAT NAT is the simplest way to have a VM networked The VM will be able to access the Hosts network but can not act as a server Bridged The VM will be directly connected to the same network as the Host running the VM The Bridged Interface configuration setting on each Host specifies which of the Hosts network interfaces will be used for bridging VMs connected this way can act as servers e Virtual Virtual networks are private networks created over your Hosts physical network Infinity support up to 50 different Virtual networks Each Virtual network acts as a network hub connecting all VMs of the same network number regardless of the Host they are running on The Hosts physical network must be able to pass multicast packets 74 128 Infinity Help VM Audio Properties VM Audi
86. ted or scheduled to run automatically by the Infinity server Replication When multiple Infinity Servers are available a VMs hard drives can be configured to exist on two servers While the VM is running it will be accessing data from one server but any data changes will automatically and regularly be copied to the other server This is a form of asynchronous replication In the event of server failure the VM can access data on the second server VMs can be up and running again in a couple of minutes Clone A Clone is an exact copy of a VM or hard drive and all its data Clones are Thin which means that they only store the differences between the original VM and the clone A Clone of a 10 Gigabyte VM starts off only using Kilobytes of storage on the server As data on the Clone changes the space used by the Clone will increase Template Is used to quickly create preconfigured VMs A Template is technically a VM but is not used directly by users An authorized user first creates a VM and installs the guest OS and applications in it That VM is then designated as a Template Later when creating VMs users will be presented with a list of Templates If the user selects a Template the Template will be cloned The new VM is an exact copy of the Template Disk space in the Servers Pool will also be saved as the new VM will share most of its disk usage with the Template Backup Profile 8 128 Infinity Help Terminology
87. ted to any computer Block level backups are a highly efficient backup method which is much faster and uses much less space than traditional file based backup Virtual networks can be created connecting VMs running on different hosts Virtual networks allow you to create isolated networks for groups of VMs without the need for VLAN capable switches Groups of VMs can be deployed to groups of Hosts as a single step This feature greatly simplifies and accelerates the deployment of more complicated services which are composed of multiple services running in different VMs Bare Metal support allows VMs to be run on computers with no operating system or hard drive but still have a local user interface to the running VMs Simply boot from the network and you have a Host to run VMs Bare metal support can also be used to temporarily repurpose a computer for running VMs Easy to install and deploy Infinity was designed with ease of use and flexibility in mind Users can configure any computer as a Host to run VMs in minutes and new Infinity servers can be added just as quickly Infinity puts the power of virtualization in the hands of its users Users can manage their own VMs Users can create VMs Clone Snapshot Backup and deploy new Hosts to run VMs all independently without the need of an Administrator Users can share VMs with other users 5 128 Infinity Help Terminology Terminology To assist with understanding Infinity
88. tem last worked properly and analyze the changes that caused the problem A hard drive snapshot when cloned produces a new hard drive with its contents matching the original hard drive when the snapshot was taken Then newly created hard drive can then be attached to a VM and accessed by the VM Hard drives can be attached to running VMs Creating a VM from a VM snapshot Selecting a VM snapshot and Right Clicking will give you the option to clone the snapshot Input Enter new VMs name Cancel ok Infinity will clone each of the VM snapshots drives and create a new VM of the name you entered You can set the VMs HostGroup and boot the VM Creating a hard drive from a hard drive snapshot Selecting a hard drive snapshot and Right Clicking will give you the option to clone the snapshot a Input Enter hard drive name Agent 0 0 C Cancel ok The new hard disk will be shown under the snapshot in the object tree of the Home tab 115 128 Infinity Help Creating a hard drive from a hard drive snapshot i Bil Templates x VM Groups Tasks e a 7 b r UbuntuAgent Vv Agent 0 0 Y Wed Jun 27 21 17 22 EDT 2012 E Agent o 0 c Wed Jun 27 22 34 22 EDT 2012 Thu Jun 28 23 37 07 EDT 2012 Thu Jun 28 23 49 07 EDT 2012 RA an AR an emm ania The hard disk Agent 0 0 C depends of the snapshot Wed Jun 27 21 17 22 EDT 2012 The snapshot can not be deleted as long as it
89. the VM being cloned The clones will initially only use a few kilobytes of space in the servers storage pool VMs are created from Templates by creating clones of them If you intend to have a VM for the purpose of cloning you could change the VM into a Template and create new VMs from the Template 119 128 Infinity Help Execute Commands in a VM Execute Commands in a VM When a running VM has the VirtualBox guest utilities installed commands can be executed in the VM Right clicking on a VM will show the Execute Command option Selecting Execute Command will show the following dialog _ Account in VM User root Password Pkk Is bin boot dev devices etc export home infinity v fusr bin B Command Help EE sysprep Scripts Clear Close To execute commands you need an account in the VMs OS Enter the account details Commands must be fully qualified eg c windows notepad exe The Sysprep button will cause sysprep to be run in a Windows VM Sysprep does not require a user name and password Typing the command in the Command window and pressing lt Enter gt will execute the command in the VM Any output from the command will be displayed To avoid typing the full path repeatedly a default prefix can be selected or added to the left of the Command window Lists of commonly run commands can be saved under the Scripts dialog 120 128 Infinity Help Execute C
90. the VirtualBox extensions installed The Agent can be configured to automatically login with predefined credentials The Agent software can be installed by using Java WebStart by pointing a web browser at the address of the Infinity Server and clicking the Agent link Javaws program is used to run the link If your web browser does not recognize the link install Java from www java com The Agent can be run on computers that do not have VirtualBox installed non Hosts Users then will still be able to access their VMs and connect through RDP to VMs running on a remote Host T TechSologic Server Login _ Login Password _ Show password Server 192 168 1 14 v _ Host Group Name mslaptop v Save Password _ Cancel Login If the Save Password check box is selected the next time the agent is started it will automatically connect with the account entered The saved login settings can be cleared with the Agent GUI File gt clear saved password 48 128 Infinity Help Infinity Agent File Edit View Help Omnil 1 Omnil 2 Windows 7 Boot Remotely PowerOff Connect Teleport Locally 3 4 G If the VirtualBox installation is found by the Agent the amount of free memory available on the Hosts will be shown in the box at the bottom right of the Agent GUI When a user starts the Agent on a Host if the Agent belongs to a Distributed Host Group
91. to use it as a Host A Host used to run VMs must have Java 6 or greater and VirtualBox installed Or if the PXE package is installed on the Infinity server the computer can be booted from the network You must have an account on your Infinity server Java can be downloaded from http www java com or you can use OpenJDK if it is available for your OS VirtualBox can be downloaded from http www virtualbox org For RDP remote access to running VMs the VirtualBox extentions must be installed They are available for download from the same site Once Java and VirtualBox have been installed the Infinity Agent software can be installed on the host by clicking on the Agent link on your servers web page Te TechSologic Infinity If prompted what to run the link with select Web Start You will have to trust the certificate presented by the server The Agent software will be installed and started automatically A shortcut to start the Agent might be created on your desktop for you to start the Agent in the future 43 128 Infinity Help Configuring a Host to run VMs A login dialog will appear Server Login Login Password _ Show password Server 192 168 1 14 v Host Group Name mslaptop v Save Password _ Cancel Login 2 The default Host Group will be the Hosts name You can change the Host Group by entering your preferred name You can have the password saved
92. up files have the default file extension of tsb The progress bar at the bottom of the dialog box follows the backup process until it is complete The dialog can be closed while the backup is running but do not close the Administration Console until the backup is complete Note An individual Hard Disk can be backed up in a similar manner If the Host option is selected a dialog allowing the selection a particular Host as the backup location is displayed 110 128 Infinity Help Backing up a VM S pxe S mslaptop Disk Space File Name Omnil 0 Cancel o 0 The progress bar at the bottom of the dialog box follows the backup process until it is complete The Administration Console can be closed once the backup has started All backup job progress can be monitored and managed under the Consoles Backups tab 111 128 Infinity Help Restoring a VM Backup from a local file Restoring a VM Backup from a local file 1 Log into the Administration Console from the computer with the VMs backup file 2 Select the File menu and select Restore AG Edit View Help Restore LEJ rene vR os gt Gi test gt A omnil 1 State a Ba nmani 7 1 A Dialog box titled Restore will appear allowing the selection of a previously saved VMBackup tsb file which contains the VM along with its attached hard drive s a Select the Filename from
93. virtualization overhead by 10 20 2 Page Fusion in VirtualBox uses logic in the VirtualBox Guest Additions to quickly identify memory cells that are most likely identical across VMs It can therefore achieve most of the possible savings of page sharing almost immediately and with almost no overhead 3 Page Fusion is also much less likely to be confused by identical memory that it will eliminate just to learn seconds later that the memory will now change and having to perform a highly expensive and often service disrupting reallocation PXE Pre boot eXecution Environment allows computers to boot directly from the network instead of a local drive Java Java is a computing platform used by infinity allowing you to run Infinity from any computer that has Java installed Infinity needs Java version 6 or higher Web Start Web Start automates the installing and running of the Infinity Agent Administrator Console and Remote Access programs when selecting them from the Infinity Servers web page ZFS ZFS is a combined file system and logical volume manager designed by Sun Microsystems The features of ZFS include data integrity verification against data corruption modes support for high storage capacities integration of the concepts of file system and volume management snapshots and copy on write clones continuous integrity checking and automatic repair 11 128 Infinity Help Architecture Architecture The following a b
94. will create a local VM with VirtualBox and the VM will run using the resources of the Host VM Group A VM Group is a group of VMs and Templates created by users that can be quickly Cloned and applied to a Host Group as a single unit Infinity Administration Console This is the main administration interface used by users with the appropriate rights to create and manage VMs and the Infinity Servers Snapshot A Snapshot is a point in time copy of a VM or hard drive Snapshots are used for protecting data from accidental deletion and corruption within a VM Snapshots are also used when Cloning 7 128 Infinity Help Terminology Copying Backing up and Replicating VMs Snapshots are located on the server so they do not provide protection from server pool failure Snapshots are quick and efficient the storage space used starts near zero and only grows as data is changed on the snapshoted drive by the VM VMs can be regularly snapshotted by Infintiy The number of Snapshots per VM is technically practically unlimited but should be limited to a few thousand To protect from server Storage Pool failure Backups or Replication should also be configured on the Infinity Server Backup A Backup is a copy of a hard drive or VM as a file Backups can therefore be stored off site and provide protection in the event of disaster Infinity supports Full Incremental and Differential block level backups of VMs Backups can be manually crea
95. y 50GB of free space Sparse drives allow you to make better use of the space available in your servers storage pools The problem with sparse drives is that if the servers storage pool reaches its maximum capacity all the sparse drives in that pool will immediately be full but the OS running in the VMs will think they have space on their hard drives This will result in and unexpected failure to write data by the VM often resulting in a hang or crash of the VM It is therefor extremely important to monitor the free space available in the servers storage pool If EMail is configured the Infinty server will send emails warning that the pool is close to full Infinity has a feature called Dynamic Reservation to help protect you from the VMs failing due to a full storage pool when using sparse drives Size 1G W Sparse Comments Used 2 6M W Compression Grow Disk O Read Only W Primary _ Auto Failover Name Dos6 22 kotb Restored C 0 Server 192 168 1 14 VM test _ Dynamic Reservation i 1 1 1 j j I ie 1 2 3 4 gt 6 7 8 9 10 Type IO Sync standard iv SnapShots 0B Number of snapshots 1 69 128 Infinity Help Dynamic Reservation Dynamic Reservation Hard drives have the option to be sparse sometimes called thin Sparse drives do not have space reserved for then in the Infinities storage Pool When dynamic reservation is enabled on a sparse drive the infinity server will prereserve
96. y login If the login fails the Agent will display the login dialog Log Level This sets the Agents logging Level INFO is the default level For debugging purposes the Agent can be configured to log more details All logs all messages When the Log Level is set to ALL the VirtualBox configuration for VMs will not be removed as usual when a VM is powered off to allow the use of VirtualBox tools to help debug VM issues Agent Interface This is the network card the Infinity server will contact the Agent on Bridged Interface VMs configured to use Bridged Interfaces will be connected to this NIC Audio Support VMs configured with audio support will use this facility on the Host to produce sound RDP Command 51 128 Infinity Help Agent configuration settings If the user attempts to make an RDP connection to a remote VM By default the built in Java RDP client will be used You can configure the Agent to use another program instead by entering the command here Variables username password address and port are supported For example mstsc v address port RAM Cap Maximum Host RAM used by VMs A cap of zero means that there is no cap on RAM VMs can use all RAM available on the Host Setting it higher than the Hosts actual amount of ram will allow the running of more VMs but could lead to problems if the VMs actively use all the RAM configured to them Headless If Headless is enabled VMs will be started on the h

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