Installing the Virtual Appliance

To run Media Gateway/SRT Gateway under a VMware platform:

Download the Virtual Machine Release Package from Haivision's Support Portal and extract the files.
Import the .OVA file into VMware's vSphere Hypervisor 5.5 or greater.
Configure the virtual host to meet the following minimum VM specifications:

SKU	vCPUs	RAM	HDD for OS and apps*
VM-MG-100/VM-SG-100	4	8 GB	100 GB
VM-MG-200/VM-SG-200	8	16 GB	100 GB
VM-MG-500/VM-SG-500/VM-SG-1G	16	16 GB	100 GB
VM-MG-1500/VM-SG-UL	32	32 GB	100 GB

*Thin provision recommended.

Note

Haivision VM images use two disks: Disk 1 is thin-provisioned and set up to grow up to 100GB; Disk 2 is thin-provisioned up to 10GB and should be replaced by your organization's preferred asset storage, NFS mount, or VM storage disk.

Recommended load usecases for the above specifications (based on 10-Mbps input, using SRT or UDP as the transport protocol):

SKU	Bandwidth	# of Routes/# of Outputs
VM-MG-100/VM-SG-100	100 Mbps	10 Routes with 1 Output each or 5 Routes with 2 Outputs each
VM-MG-200/VM-SG-200	200 Mbps	20 Routes with 1 Output each, 10 Routes with 2 Outputs each, or 5 Routes with 4 Outputs each
VM-MG-500/VM-SG-500/VM-SG-1G	500 Mbps	50 Routes with 1 Output each, 25 Routes with 2 Outputs each, or 5 Routes with 10 Outputs each
VM-MG-1500/VM-SG-UL	3000 Mbps	100 Routes with 3 Outputs each

Important

Reserve sufficient virtual resources (CPU, RAM, NIC, and HD) to avoid adverse effects to system performance.

Power on the virtual machine.