Setup MMC OpCenter on AWS

Setup & Download EC2 Key-Pair for OpCenter Access

• Login to AWS & navigate to the EC2 console and choose the appropriate region

• Navigate to Network & Security from the left navigation bar and click on Key Pairs.

• Create a key-pair if you don't have one and save this key. NOTE: You will need this key only to SSH into the opcenter instance.

AWS Marketplace - Memory Machine Cloud Subscription

• Next, navigate to AWS Marketplace and search for memory machine cloud and click on Continue to Subscribe

• Next click on Continue to Configuration

• Make sure the region is correct and leave the rest to defaults and click on Continue to Launch

• Next choose Launch CloudFormation from the drop down box and click on the Launch button

• You will be re-directed to a new window to create a stack. Use defaults on this page for tempaltes and click Next

• Next, specify a stack name

• Next, select an instance type for MMCE OpCenter under OpCenterType

• If you prefer a CustomizedInstanceType specify other instance type for MMCE OpCenter. Note this field is OPTIONAL.

• Next specify disk type for MMCE OpCenter. Available types are gp2 & gp3. Choose default gp3 for better performance.

• Next, select an EC2 Key Pair for all instances

• Next, select a web-accessible VPC to run MMCE service

• Next, select a subnet in the VPC to run OpCenter instance

• Next, select the Availability Zone in which the subnet resides

• Next, select True if you want to assign public IP to MMCE service

• Next, define the IP address range to access MMCE service under ExternalAccessCidr & SshCidr.

0.0.0.0/0 to allow all access

• Next, select True if you want to enable worker nodes to access other nodes internally. (Default is False)

• Next, For Configure stack options options keep all defaults on this page and click Next

• Next on the Review and create page, review all the parameters and finally select the check-box to allow CloudFormation to create resources and click on Submit

• Next, you will see the stack creation in progress

• Successful creation of stack will look as shown below with status CREATE_COMPLETE

• Click on the Resources tab and click on the mvOpCenter id to re-direct to the EC2 instance assigned to the MMC OpCenter

• Next, click on the Instance ID for more details of the instance

• Next, click on the open address link of Public IPv4 address to be re-directed to the OpCenter

NOTE: When logging in for the first time to the opcenter, you might see a warning about invalid security certificate. Click on Advanced -> Accept the Risk and Continue

• The MMCloud OpCenter landing page will look as below.

The opcenter can now be accessed via its public IP address: https://54.295.216.250/#/login
Bookmark this link for easy access

NOTE:
default username: admin
default password: memverge

Change Admin Password

• We recommend changing the default username (admin) and password (memverge) for the opcenter after logging in for the first time.

• Click on Users & Groups from the left navigation menu and for the admin user click on Actions and change the password as necessary.

Activate MMCloud License

• Next, activate your mmcloud license by clicking on the star icon in the top-right corner and enter your mmcloud account credentials

Not registered? Visit www.mmcloud.io

Download FLOAT CLI

• The float CLI binary helps connect a user from any local machine to the MMCloud opcenter. To download the CLI, click on the terminal icon towards the top right corner of the opcenter and choose the version of CLI tool based on the operating system

• From macOS 10.15 (Catalina) onwards, zsh is the default shell. In zsh, float is a reserved word. To use the float CLI with macOS, either change the shell to bash or alias the word float to the float binary, as follows:

alias float = /path/to/float_binary/float

where /path/to/float_binary/ is the path to where you placed the float binary.

• To change the MAC-OS default shell from zsh to bash see the following guide