Deploy Cohesity Virtual Edition

1. Login to Cohesity support portal and download OVA file

2. Deploy Cohesity OVA to your ESXi / vSphere environment

3. Give it a name and choose OVA file

4. Choose datastore for Cohesity OS drive

5. Choose network the Cohesity should be connected to

6. Configure Cohesity initial IP settings

7. Click Next to deploy Cohesity appliance

8. Edit appliance configuration and add 2 hdd, one for metadata (best on SSD datastore) and second for data (max 20 x metadata drive size)

9. If you deploy Cohesity appliance to ESXi host IPs will not be applied and you have to do it manually. Open Cohesity appliance console, login as admin/admin, you have to put the credential twice, then run below commands:

cohesity>cluster status
Error: Node having ID 1195873274425422 is not part of a cluster

cohesity> node configure-network node-ips=192.168.12.101 subnet-mask=255.255.255.0 subnet-gateway=192.168.12.1 node-ids=1195873274425422

10. Login to Cohesity Web UI as admin/admin

11. Follow onscreen instructions to complete initial configuration

12. Complete all the relevant information, remember that appliance has to be able to resolve its fqdn to the IP, appliance needs access to NTP servers - otherwise installation will fail

13. Wait for cluster to be configured

14. Login to Cohesity Web UI, accept the license agreement

15. Apply License Key

16. Cohesity appliance deployment is complete now.