Goal
flexVDI Dashboard provides a full graphic graphical user interface to manage the Guests, Pools, and other logical objects of the flexVDI virtualization environment running on one or more flexVDI Hostplatform.
This tutorial provides an introduction to basic operations using the flexVDI Dashboard. It describes the parts of the program, which correspond to the objects in the infrastructure. The tutorial will guide you through the steps required to set up a complete environment, until you create a Guest machine and connect to it.
This guide assumes that you have a running flexVDI Manager and a flexVDI Host. Installation and configuration of these servers is out of the scope of this document, and the reader should refer to the relevant documentation. Installation Guide for The Getting Started with flexVDI 2.2 guide is a good starting point.
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If you don't have Spicy installed, you will be able to use flexVDI Dashboard to manage your flexVDI Data Center, but you won't be able to open the consoles of the Guests.
Previous steps
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- One flexVDI Host
- One flexVDI Manager
- One Windows shared folder (or another CIFS/SMB server) with an ISO image of the Operating System installer for the Guest Virtual Machine.
Getting Started with flexVDI 2.2
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provides detailed information to install and configure your flexVDI Hosts and flexVDI Manager, and explains how to setup a CIFS server using flexVDI Config.
Installation Guide for flexVM 2.1 provides detailed information to install and configure your flexVM Servers.
When While following this guide, you will need to have the following information at hand:
- flexHostflexVDI Hosts: IP address or name, and a path with disk space to store the disk images of the virtual machines.
- flexManagerflexVDI Manager: IP address, user (default is admin) and password.
- Network path (server ip, path, and file name) and credentials (user and password) to read the ISO file with the OS Installation that you want to install in your Guest.
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flexVDI Dashboard installation
Windows installation
Just download the latest version of flexVDI Dashboard installer from http://flexvdi.com/ and execute it as a user with administrative privileges. This will create an icon in the desktop, and an entry in the Start Menu.
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Now open a terminal, go to the directory where you saved the downloaded file, and give the installer program execution permission with:
$ chmod u+x ./flexVDI _Dashboard_2.2.0n-x64_installer.run |
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Execute the installer clicking on it, or executing:
$ ./flexVDI _Dashboard_2.02.n-x64_installer.run |
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Now you can launch the flexVDI Dashboard with:
$ ./flexVMflexVDI_ClientDashboard_2.02.n-x64/flexVDI DashboardflexVDIDashboard.sh |
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Overview
In this guide we will create the elements needed to start launching Guest Virtual Machines in a simple infrastructure.
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- Define and use a connection to the flexVDI Infrastructure interlocutor: flexManagerflexVDI Manager.
- Define the disk space where our Guest Disks ´s disks will be stored: a Volume.
- Define the shared folder where the OS installation files reside: a Media Storage.
- Finally we will create a Guest, launch it, and connect to its console.
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