EnSpeed Drupal Virtual Appliance

The EnSpeed Drupal Virtual Appliance enables Enterprise Grade Drupal in minutes. Download the appliance, start it up under Vmware Server or Vmware player, use the full GUI Virtual Appliance Configuration to configure the Virtual Appliance’s networking, and your Drupal instance is ready to use.

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Visit the EnSpeed Virtualization Blog for notes, tips, suggestions, etc.

REQUIREMENTS FOR THE VMWARE VIRTUAL APPLIANCE:

• VM Host Computer
  
  1. VMware Virtual Machine Monitor Software
     1. VMware Server with VMWare Server Console on Linux/Windows XP
     2. VMware Player on Linux/Windows XP
  2. 512M of free memory
  3. 10 Gigabytes or more of disk space
  
  
• A DHCP or Static IP Address for the EnSpeed Drupal Virtual Appliance


1. IP Address, Netmask, Default gateway and DNS Server information,
2. or, a DHCP Server that will hand out an IP address to this Virtual Appliance

REQUIREMENTS FOR THE XEN VIRTUAL APPLIANCE:

• VM Host Computer
  
  1. VM Host Server with Intel VT or AMD Pacifica (This is a fully virtualized Xen VM)
  2. Xen Virtual Machine Monitor Software - One of the following:
     1. EnSpeed VMM with LiveSync. EnSpeed VMM users may directly download this appliance into the EnSpeed VM Orchestrator using the built in Virtual Appliance browser. Read more about the EnSpeed Virtualization Platform here
     2. CentOS 5.0
     3. RedHat 5.0
  3. 512M of free memory
  4. 10 Gigabytes or more of disk space
  
  
• A DHCP or Static IP Address for the EnSpeed Drupal Virtual Appliance


1. IP Address, Netmask, Default gateway and DNS Server information,
2. or, a DHCP Server that will hand out an IP address to this Virtual Appliance

INSTALLATION:

1	Download the EnspeedDrupalVA.rar file.
2	Unzip it into a directory with at least 8 Gigabytes of free space
3	If this appliance is to be hosted on Windows, double click on the "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.vmx" file
4	If this appliance is being hosted in Linux/VMware Server, then register the vmx with the VMware server using the command "vmware-cmd -s register full_path_name_to_the_vmx_file". Use the VMware Server console (vmware-server-console) program that is supplied as part of the "vmware-server-linux-console" package from vmware. Please note that the vmware server web UI, i.e. the vmware-mui package does not work with this Virtual Appliance. The following is a screen capture with the Virtual Appliance running in Vmware Player under Windows XP. Note that the first time boot may seem to hang for a few minutes while starting up sendmail. This is normal and will not happen once networking is configured correctly and functional. The following screen shows the EnSpeed Drupal Virtual Appliance configured to use a static IP Address (192.168.1.199). SCREEN CAPTURE 1 Click here to view Enlarged Image
5	Alternatively, you may choose to configure the Virtual Appliance for a DHCP IP address, as seen in Screen Capture 2 below. Note that in this case the edit boxes for entering the Static IP Address and associated parameters are disabled. SCREEN CAPTURE 2 Click here to view Enlarged Image
6	Once the Network Configuration is saved, and the web browser returns to the main page, your EnSpeed Drupal appliance is ready for use.
7	Open a web browser and point it at the IP Address you provided for the EnSpeed Drupal Virtual Appliance. You are presented with the following login page to Drupal. Use the default login and password of “admin” and “admin”. SCREEN CAPTURE 3 Click here to view Enlarged Image