Avere vFXT installation guide for Amazon Web Services

This document set describes how to create and manage an Avere OS vFXT cluster on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud computing service.

Additional documentation

Additional information about configuring and operating an Avere cluster is provided in the Cluster Configuration Guide. Visit http://azure.github.io/Avere/ for release notes and other information.

Contents

• The vFXT platform
  • vFXT instance types
• Product requirements
  • Choosing the AWS region and availability zone
  • AWS account
  • AWS permissions
  • AWS virtual private cloud (VPC)
  • Subnet
  • Security groups
  • Internet access
• Precautions
  • AWS resource limits
  • AWS account charges
  • Encryption key management
  • Internet exposure
• Installing a vFXT series edge filer in Amazon EC2
  • The vfxt.py script
  • Network infrastructure checklist
  • Creating the IAM role
  • Creating a cluster controller
  • Creating a vFXT cluster
  • Post-creation configuration
• Managing vFXT nodes
  • Accessing vFXT nodes (HTTPS and SSH)
  • Managing instances
• Appendix
  • Required ports
  • Domain whitelist
  • Creating AWS S3 endpoints
  • Multiple availability zone (Multi-AZ) support
  • Customizing the cluster node role
  • Sample IAM policy

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Revision History

Most recent document updates were made Jun 20, 2018