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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- 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 installation guide provides detailed information to install and configure your flexVDI Hosts and flexVDI Manager, and explains how to setup a CIFS server using flexVDI Config.
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Now you can launch the flexVDI Dashboard with:
$ ./flexVDI_Dashboard__2.2.n-x64/flexVDIDashboard.sh |
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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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