VM-based Setup on Azure

Pre-requisites

Two VM instances are required for VSP – one for VSP CMS and (Optional - Remote AE only) one for VSP AE.

The pre-requisites for VSP installation:

1. VM instance with:
   1. Docker
   2. Docker Compose
   3. Network Security Group with the list of ports utilized by VSP components. Refer to the VM article for information on the ports

Azure Machine Creation

1. Access the Azure Virtual machines console and click Virtual machines
2. Navigate to Virtual machines > Create > Azure virtual machine
3. Provide the required information:
   1. Subscription: Free Trial/pay-as-you-go
   2. Resource group: If there is no existing resource group, create a new one
   3. Virtual machine name:   Custom name for the VM
   4. Region: Provide the Custom region
   5. Availability Zone: Select the appropriate Availability Zone 
   6. Security Type: Standard
   7. Image: RHEL 8.2 – Gen2 
   8. Size: Select the below option according to the CMS Deployment Type:
      1. Large: standard_D16s_v3 (vcpu -16 Memory-64GiB)
      2. Small: standard_D8s_v3 (vcpu -8 Memory-32GiB)
   9. Authenticate Type: Select Password. Provide the username and password
   10. Enable SSH protocol to access the VM. Click Next: Disks
   11. Configure OS Disk type and Encryption type. Click Create and attach a new disk
   12. Configure Name, Source Type and Size. Click OK
   13. After Configuring disk, click Next: Networking
   14. Select the default values and click Management
   15. Click Tags and provide the tags for identification. Click Review + Create
4. After validation, click Create to provision the VM
5. After a successful VM creation, click Go to resource
6. Copy the Public IP address and login to the machine using MobaXterm/CLI

Installation

1. Log in to the two newly created machines using SSH and install Docker and Docker Compose using the commands below:

   sudo su
   subscription-manager register --username <username> --password <password> --auto-attach  #Register the machine with the Red Hat subscription to download dependencies
   yum update
   subscription-manager repos --enable=rhel-7-server-rpms --enable=rhel-7-server-extras-rpms --enable=rhel-7-server-optional-rpms
   sudo yum install -y https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-7.noarch.rpm 
   sudo yum install -y yum-utils device-mapper-persistent-data lvm2
   sudo yum-config-manager --add-repo https://download.docker.com/linux/centos/docker-ce.repo
   sudo yum install docker-ce 
   sudo systemctl enable --now docker.service
   sudo curl -L "https://github.com/docker/compose/releases/download/1.29.x/docker-compose-$(uname -s)-$(uname -m)" -o /usr/local/bin/docker-compose
   sudo chmod +x /usr/local/bin/docker-compose
   mv /usr/local/bin/docker-compose /usr/bin/
   

2. Verification: Execute the commands below to verify the Docker and Docker Compose versions:

   docker version
   docker-compose version