Creating a Ray VM on Esxi:


In this article, we are going to cover the steps required for creating a Ray VM from a .vmdk in VMware ESXi Hypervisor.


Ray VM allows for an enterprise network that want host a Ray Edge gateway in their virtual infrastructure to enable all the features supported by a Ray Edge hardware appliance such as SD-WAN, HSIA, BFSI and Captive Portal to extend to their Virtual Networks.



Below are the steps to create a Ray VM in VMware ESXi:

  1. Request for a download link to the current Ray VM image. (This comes in .vmdk format)
  2. Using the link provided, download and save the Ray image file.
  3. Upload the .vmdk file you just download to the VMware ESXi data store.
  4. In VMware ESXi, register a new VM and select version as other linux version 64 bit (Name VM according to your preference)
  5. Remove the hard disk that gets added by default when creating a new VM.
  6. Click on Add existing hard disk and select the vmdk file that you uploaded to the ESXi data store. 
  7. For the newly added hard disk, Change the controller location  as follows : 

 

 8. Go to VM options and change boot options to BIOS.



9. You can now Save your VM Configurations. your Ray VM is ready to boot and run.

10. you can contact us for the steps to activate your Ray VM license.


Thanks

Ray Support