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The Swarm Telemetry OVA for VMware ESXi is included in the Swarm 14 15 VMware Bundle Package. To set up time synchronization for CentOS 7, see here.

Refer to the following steps to deploy Swarm Telemetry once downloaded. The values shown are for illustration purposes:

  1. Log in to VMware ESXi and click Create/Register VM.

  2. Select Deploy a virtual machine from an OVF or OVA file and click Next.

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  3. Drag and drop swarmTelemetry-v12.1.0-x86_64.ova and click Next.

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  4. Select the appropriate datastore and click Next.

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  5. Select an appropriate network from ESXi, then click Next button.

    1. VM Network – Application network

    2. VM Demo Lab 2 Internal – Swarm Storage network

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  6. Verify settings before finalizing. Deploy SwarmTelemetry to ESXi if correct.

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  7. Power on SwarmTelemetry VM.

  8. Update IP addresses from ESXi Console to enable SwarmTelemetry which accesses Gateway and Swarm storage nodes to load metrics and reboots SwarmTelemetry. 

    • ens33 – 172.16.33.15/24

    • ens160 – 192.168.9.15/24

  9. SSH/Putty to SwarmTelemetry using;

    1. Username - root

    2. Password - datacore

  10. Modify Prometheus configure file by;

    1. Adding gateways job
      Note: It is recommended to use DNS names so IP addresses are not exposed on the dashboards.

    2. Adding Swarm Nodes job

      Code Block
      languageyaml
      vi /etc/prometheus/prometheus.yml

# Add Gateways
  - job_name: 'gw77-01'
    static_configs:
    - targets: ['172.16.33.16:9100']
    relabel_configs:
    - source_labels: [__address__]
      regex: "([^:]+):\\d+"
      target_label: instance
 
  - job_name: 'gw77-02'
    static_configs:
    - targets: ['172.16.33.17:9100']
    relabel_configs:
    - source_labels: [__address__]
      regex: "([^:]+):\\d+"
      target_label: instance
 
  - job_name: 'swarm'
    scrape_interval: 30s
    static_configs:
    - targets: ['192.168.9.143:9100','192.168.9.144:9100','192.168.9.145:9100']
    relabel_configs:
    - source_labels: [__address__]
      regex: "([^:]+):\\d+"
      target_label: instance

  11. Restart Prometheus server using systemctl restart prometheus command.

  12. Browse http://172.16.33.15:9090/targets URL.

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  13. Log in to SwarmTelemetry Grafana using default credentials;

    1. Username - admin

    2. Password - datacore

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