How to deploy Versa Director on AWS

This article describes how to deploy Versa Director on AWS

Prerequisite

§  Should have knowledge on AWS 

Topology

Configuration

1. Login to the AWS Console, it will navigate to the dashboard. Before deploying EC2 instance , we need to create the VPC.

2. For VPC Creation, Select the services at left end top most corner, Search VPC > Choose VPC.

3. Select the region where we want to deploy the VPC

4. click on Launch VPC Wizard.

5. Select the VPC based on topology. Here we are using Single Public Subnet.

6. Once the VPC type is selected , it will create the VPC and will show below message, click OK to proceed further.

7. Next step is to create the subnet , which will used for internetworking and for management. In VPC Dashboard >select Subnets >click on create subnet

8. Select the Name Tag of the subnet and VPC which we created earlier and choose availability zone and IPV4 address range>click on create.

9. Create at least 3 subnets

• Management subnet
• Control subnet
• Internal control subnet

10. Once subnet is created, it will be shown as below

11. Select the created subnet, and click on edit route table association.

12. Add New default route to connect to internet.

13. Go to Security Groups and create the security group.

14. Once Security group is created , Select the created Security group>click on edit rules>allow all created subnets and port required for Versa Headend deployment.

Here is example of inbound rule for allowing required port.

• Allowing SSH

• Allowing BGP-IPSEC

• Outbound rules should allow all.

15. To create Versa Director , we need to launch EC2 instance, Click on Services>select EC2.

16. Click on launch instance

17. Select the AMI from My AMI

18. After selecting the AMI>Choose appropriate instance type (It is recommended to use C4-XLarge or higher compute type)

19. Select the VPC and subnet in network and subnet.

20. Choose the storage size and select option delete on termination.

21. For login purpose we required key-pair, enter the key and value select the instance.

22. Select the security group which was created during VPC creation.

23. Before launching the EC2 instance , please review all parameter.

24. Click on Launch>dialog box will open>Create a new key pair>download the file and save it locally and select Launch Instances

25. Once EC2 instance created , it will display below message

26. Go to newly created instance and edit the name for identification purpose.

27. Public IP address is allocated, after the Initialization

28. There are different ways to connect to this instance. Select EC2 instance>click on connect, it will display all option for login.

29. Login via putty on EC2 instance:

• Open putty Key Generator>load the key-pair.pem>click on load>change to all files >select key-pair.pem.
• Once it is loaded, click on save private key>save the file.

• Open putty and select auth browse the <Key-pair>.ppm file and enter public ip address/dns public add of EC2 instance.

30. Next step is to add more network interface, By default EC2 has one interface , we need to add more to connect with control network and to internet.
31. Select the VPC, Subnet and Security group.

32. Before adding interface, we need to stop the Instance and add the interface.

33. Select the instance>right click on it>select the networking and attach network interface.