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The vSMS contains a ready-to-configure virtual instance of SMS. When the vSMS is deployed, the SMS software running in the virtual appliance operates in the same manner as if it were running on a physical SMS appliance.
A supported KVM environment must already be set up before you can deploy the vSMS software. For more information, see System requirements.
Note
Note
If you are deploying the vSMS on OpenStack, go to Deploy the vSMS software on OpenStack
Follow these steps to deploy the vSMS software on a kernel-based virtual machine (KVM).

Procedure

  1. Set up two bridge networks on KVM (for example, br215 and br216). Alternatively, you can set up a single bridge network and specify it twice when you deploy the vSMS package.
  2. Copy the vSMS tar package to your system.
  3. Extract the package with the #tar -zxf <tar filename> command.
  4. Deploy the vSMS package with the following command: 
    #virt-install
--name=<vsms_name>
--ram=32768
--vcpus sockets=2,cores=4
--boot hd
--disk path=<full_path_to_current_dir>/system_disk.raw
--network bridge=br215,model=e1000  
--network bridge=br216,model=e1000
--virt-type=kvm
--cpu host
--graphics vnc
    Note
    Note
    You cannot reuse the system disk file (system_disk.raw) to create another VM. To create another VM, copy the vSMS package to a different directory and then extract the system disk file from the vSMS package.
  5. Use the #virsh console <vsms_name> to connect to the console.