Installing K10 on VMware vSphere¶
Prerequisites¶
Before installing K10 on VMware vSphere, please ensure that the install prerequisites are met.
Persistent Volumes must be provisioned using the vSphere CSI provisioner or one of the other supported storage providers.
Installing K10¶
Note
Support for VMware vSphere is currently in preview. Please contact support if you have any questions.
Creation of a vSphere infrastructure profile is required to backup volumes provisioned by the vSphere CSI driver.
Validating the Install¶
To validate that K10 has been installed properly, the following
command can be run in K10's namespace (the install default is
kasten-io
) to watch for the status of all K10 pods:
It may take a couple of minutes for all pods to come up but all pods
should ultimately display the status of Running
.
In the unlikely scenario that pods that are stuck in any other state, please follow the support documentation to debug further.
Validate Dashboard Access¶
By default, the K10 dashboard will not be exposed externally.
To establish a connection to it, use the following kubectl
command
to forward a local port to the K10 ingress port:
The K10 dashboard will be available at http://127.0.0.1:8080/k10/#/.
For a complete list of options for accessing the Kasten K10 dashboard through a LoadBalancer, Ingress or OpenShift Route you can use the instructions here.