can't sign up for the free trial

[mikejdunphy]

I have a server built and am ready to install the software but cant seem to sign up for the free trial, web site is stuck in
a infinite loop, I click sign in and authenticate and comes back to the same page asking to sign in again,

How can I download the software so I can do the free trial.

If HP cant even write web pages correctly how the heck can the write good hypervisor software ?

[Arnout_Verbeken]

Smells like a cookie issue.  Can you try in incognito mode and reply back?

[mikejdunphy]

yeah I tried that and 6 other things from Sunday including
different browsers on different machines

I had  a chat w/ some dude at HP and someone should be
getting a hold of me. The guy on the chat had all kinds of
questions about budget and finance and I told him I dont
work in finance and all I want is the dang software so I can
do the trial.
Were getting off vmware as it is too expensive and so were
looking at different solutions ... and this one looks promising
but it has already failed in my mind because I cant even start
the trial and get the software.

[Arnout_Verbeken]

Did you start from https://www.hpe.com/emea_europe/en/hpe-vm-essentials/trial.html  ?

Did you have already an HPE account?

Where exactly are you stuck? (screenshot)?

(I'm an HPE employee so I have different ways to get to the binaries.  I can't really test myself).

TIA!

[Arnout_Verbeken · Accepted solution]

The real site is https://myenterpriselicense.hpe.com/cwp-ui/product-details/HPE_VME_EVAL/-/sw360_eval_customer

It should ask you for your login details and bring you straight to the download page....

Can you check and reply?

[mikejdunphy]

yes thats where I started
yes I have a HPE account
as I have explained after I authenticate it puts me back at the same page asking to sign

[mikejdunphy]

yay I have a download link .. thank you!!!!

[mikejdunphy]

ugh spoke to soon ... this really sux

[mikejdunphy]

good news I finally got the .iso file
guess I'll mount it with a loop and extract the contents
the next step for me is to install the Install VM Essentials Console

I am guessing its in this .deb

.ls -l /mnt/iso
total 7921494
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 34468126 Jun 2 12:47 hpe-vm_1.0.8-1_amd64.deb
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 8077132684 Jun 5 19:23 hpe-vm-essentials-8.0.6-3.qcow2.gz
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 2179 Jun 5 19:00 README
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 192 Jun 5 19:23 SHA256.txt

Thanks for the help.

[Arnout_Verbeken]

Yes,

Install the .deb with sudo apt install -f /location/file.deb

Next run sudo hpe-vm , configure networking (if needed - depending on your setup),  and install the VME Manager.  Browse to the .gz file in the installer.

Make sure you have DNS setup up correctly (forward + reverse) before installing the manager. 

At the end of the install, a popup should tell you to browse to https://xxx 

If it's stuck on 93% or slowly moving to 99%, something is not set up correctly.

[Arnout_Verbeken]

Docs on how to setup can be found on https://hpevm-docs.morpheusdata.com/en/latest/vme_getting_started/vme_getting_started.html

[mikejdunphy]

yeah thats what I have been following.
I got the install going and it hung at 99%
from your earlier post to someone else I nuked everything and started
over and this time did not select use compute vlan and it worked
So I have finshed that and will build 2 more nodes and then create
a cluster.
Still trying to figure out how to add pure flasharray storage and a datastore
across all nodes.
Theres a drop down for gfs2 in the vme  manager but not sure if that works
Heres my plan
map a 1tb lun from pure array to each host via FiberChannel
Configure Corosync/Pacemaker Cluster on each host ( apt install gfs2-utils corosync pacemaker pcs fence-agents )
Create a Clustered Volume Group on all host
on first node only Create a Logical Volume and Format as GFS2
create mount on all hosts /mnt/datastore1 or something

Somehow add this datastore thru the vme manager gui

I should be able to resize this on the fly with no downtime

[Arnout_Verbeken]

For other nodes:
Install Ubuntu, verify and adapt netplan to be in line with node 1, install hpe-vm.deb file. That's it.

For fc datastore:
Present lun to all hosts.
Verify with lsblk on the hosts. You should see your disk and the multipathing.

Create cluster in vme.
Add gfs2 lun from in the cluster screen (not main storage screen)
It will do the full cluster config for you. No need to fiddle with corosync.
Edit datastore and enable heartbeat.

Hope this helps.

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[mikejdunphy]

@Arnout_Verbeken,

Awesome, thanks so much Arnout I wlll do that.