You can use the administrative console that is supplied
with the IBM® Hardware
Appliances to add
the WebSphere® Message Broker Hypervisor Edition virtual machine image
to the image catalog. If you add the virtual machine image in this
way, the predefined patterns and script packages are not loaded with
the virtual machine image. You must create patterns and script packages
manually after loading the virtual machine image.
Before you begin
Before you can manually add the virtual
machine image to the image catalog, ensure that you have completed
the following tasks:
- Download the WebSphere Message Broker Hypervisor Edition package from Passport Advantage®.
- Extract the downloaded package into an empty directory. The package
is supplied as a tar file that has been compressed
into GNU compressed file format. On Linux,
the package can be extracted using the tar command
with the -z (gzip) option. Use tar version 1.20
or higher. On Windows, there
are a number of commonly available tools which can be used to extract
the package. The extracted package is approximately 20% larger than
the downloaded package.
- Configure an HTTP server to either serve or pick up the WebSphere Message Broker Hypervisor Edition OVA file (WMBHVE.ova).
The OVA file is located in the root directory where you extracted
the package. See your HTTP server documentation for more information
about configuring an HTTP server.
- Verify that you can establish an active connection to your IBM Hardware Appliance, and that you have
one of the following permissions necessary to load virtual machine
images to the image catalog:
- Create new catalog content.
- Cloud administration.
Procedure
Follow these steps to manually add the WebSphere Message Broker Hypervisor Edition virtual machine image
to the image catalog:
- From the IBM Hardware
Appliances user
interface, navigate to the Virtual Images panel in one of the following
ways:
- From the menu bar at the top of the IBM Hardware
Appliances user interface, click .
- From the Welcome page, click Add virtual images.
- Click the Add icon to import the
virtual image.
- In the OVA file location field, enter the URL for the WebSphere Message Broker Hypervisor Edition image OVA file. This
location is determined by your action in Step 2.
- If you have set security on the OVA file that is handled
by the HTTP server, use the User name and Password fields to enter
the required user name and password. Retype your password in the Verify
password field.
- Click OK.
Results
The WebSphere Message Broker Hypervisor Edition virtual machine image
is now available in the IBM Hardware
Appliances image
catalog.
What to do next
Manually create patterns and script packages that you
can use to deploy virtual systems.