Aruba Virtual Appliances: Clearpass, Virtual Mobility Conductor, Airwave

[ITMader]

Would be great to add not only support for KVM/RHEL but Proxmox

I tried installing CP on Proxmox, but this won't work properly. Some guys made it work, I heard that. But it would be Ace if there would be some kind of 1 packaged file, raw or iso installer I could easily get running in PVE.

I think limitations here are Network/Virtual Switch Compatibilities. But wouldn't it be possible to build something like virtual Switches in Proxmox with e.g. Bonds and Vlan Subinterfaces?

 

[DaVV]

Hi,
we are running MC, MM for years with tens of instances.
it works out of the box pretty much.
Machine q35 - otherwise its crashing occasionally and have 4 network cards as per manual.

 

[TheMuller]

Hello,
I just stumbled over this thread as I am migrating from VMware to Proxmox.
I´m trying to migrate one of my VMC, but so far no luck.
VM is booting but then gets stuck wehen starting the services and a message "datapath taking too long to start" appears. Afterwards the VM reboots.

@DaVV could you please elaborate on the installation process.

- Do you use the ArubaOS OVA and extract the .vmdk, that then will be converted into qcow2 disk?
- In the Aruba Guide for installation I found that you should apply the following on KVM hypervisor

Is that necessary on Proxmox?


Any help is appreciated.

 

[thatoneguy]

Hello,
I just stumbled over this thread as I am migrating from VMware to Proxmox.
I´m trying to migrate one of my VMC, but so far no luck.
VM is booting but then gets stuck wehen starting the services and a message "datapath taking too long to start" appears. Afterwards the VM reboots.

@DaVV could you please elaborate on the installation process.

- Do you use the ArubaOS OVA and extract the .vmdk, that then will be converted into qcow2 disk?
- In the Aruba Guide for installation I found that you should apply the following on KVM hypervisor
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Is that necessary on Proxmox?


Any help is appreciated.

In the past I always had issues with Aruba VMs on proxmox, usually i had to tinker around with Q34 or i1440fx or by setting certain HDDs to IDE instead of virtio or the like.

I was running into the same issue as you recently and after experimenting with the OVA Import,

Solution with v8.13 of VMC:
1. Set the SCSI Controller to VMWare PVSCI
2. Configure the 2 HDDs as SCSI (I think this is automatic when imported in VMWare PVSCI but ensure this before you boot up).