Appliance KIT Overview

Appliance Kit (APK) is a package of tools and runtime for creating CA 3Tera AppLogic appliances out of OS installations. It contains scripts and utilities that help implement the appliance boundary, as well as a set of tools to assist appliance developers in preparing appliances.

Description

APK includes:

User Guide (this document):
- Appliance boundary definition (what makes a VM a CA 3Tera AppLogic appliance)
- Appliance cookbook (how to build and customize appliances)
- Distribution installation instructions
  - Installation for RedHat and CentOS Linux Distributions
  - Installation for Ubuntu Linux Distributions
  - Installation for Open Solaris and Solaris 10 Distributions
  - Installation for Windows 2003 and 2008 Server (all varieties)
Binary archive (one per supported target), including an install script. The binary archives can be found within the CA 3Tera AppLogic release folder on the BFC server.

The APK installation supports:

Creating appliances from physical server installs or from VMware/Xen images
Upgrading old-style (volfix) CA 3Tera AppLogic appliances to APK
- Please see the following topic for how to upgrade your old-style appliances to use APK: VolfixDHCPConversion
Upgrading new-style (APK) appliances to a newer version of APK
Provides support for both the Xen and VMware (ESX) hypervisors. For information about adding VMware support for a grid, see the BFC User Guide.

APK can be installed either on a boot volume image mounted into a subdirectory, or on a live appliance. The following software is installed by APK:

All platforms:
- Initialization script - sets up the network as necessary for the OS to operate as an appliance and starts the CA 3Tera AppLogic-specific services (VMA and CCA).
- Virtual Machine Agent (VMA), including a command to send events to the controller
- Counter Collection Agent (CCA). CCA is started only if the appliance has a configured mon terminal and the terminal is connected.
For Linux, a pre-compiled para-virtualized kernel is also provided as a separate archive.