Ruckus Virtual SmartZone Data Plane (vSZ D™) Quick Setup Guide For 3.2.1 V SZ D Smart Zone Vszd 3 2 1 20160129

User Manual: Ruckus vSZ-D Quick Setup Guide for SmartZone 3.2.1

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Published January 2016, Part Number 800-71087-001 Rev A

Ruckus Wireless™

Virtual SmartZone Data Plane™

Quick Setup Guide for

SmartZone 3.2.1

This Quick Setup Guide provides basic instructions for setting

up the Ruckus Wireless Virtual SmartZone Data Plane (vSZ-D)

on the network. For information on advanced configuration

and management options, see the vSZ-D Command Line

Interface Reference Guide, which is available for download

from the Ruckus Wireless Support website:

https://support.ruckuswireless.com/documents

Before You Begin

Before deploying Ruckus Wireless products, please check for

the latest software and the release documentation.

• Release Notes and other user documentation are available

at http://support.ruckuswireless.com/documents.

• Software upgrades are available at

http://support.ruckuswireless.com/software.

• Open source information is available at

http://opensource.ruckuswireless.com.

• Software license and limited warranty information are

available at http://support.ruckuswireless.com/warranty.

What You Will Need

• A hypervisor on which to install vSZ-D (see Ta ble 1 )

• The vSZ-D distribution package (.OVA file), which is

available for download from the Ruckus Wireless Support

website

•The IP address, netmask, gateway and DNS server

addresses assigned to the vSZ controller —if it has a static

network address (recommended).

• A virtual machine that meets the recommended system

resources for the number of APs and wireless clients that

you plan to manage.

Step 1: Install and Start vSZ-D on the

Hypervisor

Using the .OVA file that you downloaded from the Ruckus

Wireless Support site, install an instance of the vSZ-D on the

hypervisor.

#1 On the vSphere client, click File, > Deploy OVF template.

#2 Select the vSZ-D OVA file that you downloaded from the

Ruckus Wireless Support website, and then click Next.

#3 Review the OVF template details, and then click Next.

#4 Read and accept the end user license agreement, and

then click Next.

#5 Assign a name to this vSZ-D instance that you are

deploying (or accept the default name), and then click

Next.

#6 Select the disk format that you want to use for your

deployment, and then click Next.

#7 Select the network mapping that you want this vSZ-D

instance to use, and then click Next.

#8 Click Finish to start the vSZ-D deployment.

Table 1. Hypervisors that vSZ-D supports

Vendor Hypervisor Version

VMWare ESXi 5.5

KVM Linux CentOS 7.0

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A progress bar appears and displays the vSZ-D installation

status. When the installation process is complete, the fol-

lowing message appears:

Deployment Completed Successfully

#9 Click Close.

#10 On the Getting Started tab of the vSphere client, click

Power on the virtual machine to start the vSZ-D instance

that you installed.

You have completed deploying and starting a vSZ-D instance.

Step 2: Run and Complete the vSZ-D Setup

In this step, you will define the management and data interface

settings that you want vSZ-D to use.

#1 Use an SSH client to connect to the IP address assigned

to the vSZ-D instance. Alternatively, click the Console tab

on the vSphere client to connect to the vSZ-D instance via

SSH.

#2 In login as:, enter admin. The message “Welcome to

vSZ-D” appears.

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#3 In password: enter admin. The vSZ-D prompt appears.

#4 Enter en to enter the privileged mode. The vSZ-D# prompt

appears.

#5 Enter setup. The message “Start vSZ-D setup process”

appears.

#6 When the prompt “Do you want to modify the vSZ-D

hostname ([vSZ-D])? (y/n),” enter n to keep the default host

name or y to change it.

If you entered y, the next prompt asks you to enter the new

hostname.

#7 The next prompt asks you to choose how you want to set

up the management interface IP address. Enter 1 if you

want to manually assign an IP address to the management

interface or enter 2 to automatically obtain an IP address

from a DHCP server on the network.

If you entered 1 (Manual), the next prompt asks you to

enter the IP address settings that you want to manually

assign.

#8 The next prompt asks you to confirm that you want to

apply the IP address settings that you configured in the

previous prompts. Enter y to confirm and continue.

#9 The next prompt asks you to choose how you want to set

up the data interface IP address. Enter 1 if you want to

manually assign an IP address to the data interface or

enter 2 to automatically obtain an IP address from a DHCP

server on the network.

If you entered 1 (Manual), the next prompt asks you to

enter the IP address settings that you want to manually

assign.

#10 The next prompt asks you to confirm that you want to

apply the IP address settings that you configured in the

previous prompts. Enter y to confirm and continue.

The message “Apply networking configuration...” appears.

#11 At the Primary DNS prompt, enter the IP address or host

name of the primary DNS server that you want vSZ-D to

use.

#12 At the Secondary DNS prompt, enter the IP address or

host name of the secondary DNS server that you want

vSZ-D to use.

#13 At the Data Interface external NAT IP prompt,

enter the public IP address of the NAT server (if you have

one) on the network. If you do not have a NAT server on

the network, leave the field blank and simply press

<Enter>.

#14 The next prompt asks you if you want vSZ-D to

automatically discover a vSZ controller on the network

using DHCP Option 43 (if you have configured this on your

DHCP server). Enter y to use DHCP Option 43 or enter n

to manually enter the vSZ controller’s IP address.

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If you entered n, the next prompt asks you for the IP

address of the vSZ controller with which you want this

vSZ-D instance to join.

#15 At the new password prompt, enter the password that

you want to assign to the vSZ-D management interface.

The message Setup vSZ-D Done !! appears. You have

completed setting up vSZ-D on the network.

Step 3: Approve vSZ-D to Register with the

vSZ Controller

The last step is to approve vSZ-D to allow it to join the vSZ

controller on the network.

#1 Log on to the web interface of the vSZ controller with

which you want vSZ-D to register.

#2 Go to Configuration > System.

#3 On the side menu, click Cluster Planes.

#4 On the Cluster Planes page, scroll down to the Data

Planes section.

#5 Locate the vSZ-D instance that you deployed, and then

click Approve under the Actions column.

You have completed approving vSZ-D to register with vSZ.

Related Documentation

You can configure the vSZ-D from the command line interface

(CLI). For information on how to use the CLI to configure the

vSZ-D, see the vSZ-D Command Line Interface Reference

Guide.

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