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Introduction 11

Overview of Avamar Virtual Edition for Hyper-V.............................................. 12Appropriate environments for AVE.................................................................12

Installation 13

Preinstallation requirements and best practices............................................14Verifying the DNS configuration.....................................................................14AVE virtual disk requirements........................................................................14Software requirements.................................................................................. 15Network requirements...................................................................................15Virtual disk configuration best practices........................................................15Installation....................................................................................................16

Preparing the virtual machine...........................................................16Configuring network settings............................................................18Installing and configuring Avamar software...................................... 19

Benchmark Testing 21

Running benchmark testing...........................................................................22Running ave-part.pl.......................................................................................22Starting benchmark testing........................................................................... 22Manually ending benchmark testing..............................................................23Analyzing benchmark results.........................................................................23Benchmark failure.........................................................................................24

Tables

Preface

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Appendix A

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Maximum change rates AVE supports for file server and mixed environments................ 12AVE virtual disk requirements........................................................................................ 15Additional AVE software installation requirements.........................................................150.5 TB AVE minimum benchmark test results................................................................. 231 TB AVE minimum benchmark test results.................................................................... 242 TB AVE minimum benchmark test results.................................................................... 244 TB AVE minimum benchmark test results.................................................................... 24

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PREFACE

As part of an effort to improve its product lines, EMC periodically releases revisions of itssoftware and hardware. Therefore, some functions described in this document might notbe supported by all versions of the software or hardware currently in use. The productrelease notes provide the most up-to-date information on product features.

Contact your EMC technical support professional if a product does not function properlyor does not function as described in this document.

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This document was accurate at publication time. Go to EMC Online Support (https://support.emc.com) to ensure that you are using the latest version of this document.

PurposeThis guide describes how to install the Avamar Virtual Edition solution, a single-node,non-RAIN Avamar server that runs as a virtual machine in a Microsoft Hyper-Venvironment.

AudienceThis document is intended for EMC Professional Services employees and EMC authorizedchannel partners who install AVE.

Revision historyThe following table presents the revision history of this document.

Revision Date Description

01 June, 2015 Release of Avamar 7.2.

Related documentationThe following EMC publications provide additional information:

l EMC Avamar Release Notes

l EMC Avamar Administration Guide

l EMC Avamar Operational Best Practices Guide

l EMC Avamar Product Security Guide

l EMC Avamar Backup Clients User Guide

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Where to get helpThe Avamar support page provides access to licensing information, productdocumentation, advisories, and downloads, as well as how-to and troubleshootinginformation. This information may enable you to resolve a product issue before youcontact EMC Customer Support.

To access the Avamar support page:

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5. (Optional) Add the product to the My Products list by clicking Add to my products inthe top right corner of the Support by Product page.

DocumentationThe Avamar product documentation provides a comprehensive set of featureoverview, operational task, and technical reference information. Review thefollowing documents in addition to product administration and user guides:

l Release notes provide an overview of new features and known limitations for arelease.

l Technical notes provide technical details about specific product features,including step-by-step tasks, where necessary.

l White papers provide an in-depth technical perspective of a product or productsas applied to critical business issues or requirements.

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KnowledgebaseThe EMC Knowledgebase contains applicable solutions that you can search for eitherby solution number (for example, esgxxxxxx) or by keyword.

To search the EMC Knowledgebase:

1. Click the Search link at the top of the page.

2. Type either the solution number or keywords in the search box.

3. (Optional) Limit the search to specific products by typing a product name in theScope by product box and then selecting the product from the list that appears.

4. Select Knowledgebase from the Scope by resource list.

5. (Optional) Specify advanced options by clicking Advanced options andspecifying values in the available fields.

6. Click the search button.

Online communitiesVisit EMC Community Network at http://community.EMC.com for peer contacts,conversations, and content on product support and solutions. Interactively engageonline with customers, partners and certified professionals for all EMC products.

Live chatTo engage EMC Customer Support by using live interactive chat, click Join Live Chaton the Service Center panel of the Avamar support page.

Service RequestsFor in-depth help from EMC Customer Support, submit a service request by clickingCreate Service Requests on the Service Center panel of the Avamar support page.

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To review an open service request, click the Service Center link on the ServiceCenter panel, and then click View and manage service requests.

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CHAPTER 1

Introduction

This chapter includes the following topics:

l Overview of Avamar Virtual Edition for Hyper-V...................................................... 12l Appropriate environments for AVE.........................................................................12

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Overview of Avamar Virtual Edition for Hyper-VEMC® Avamar® Virtual Edition (AVE) is a single-node non-RAIN (Redundant Array ofIndependent Nodes) Avamar server that runs as a virtual machine in a Windows 2012/Windows 2012 R2 (Data Center) using Hyper-V® Manager 6.2/6.3. AVE integrates thelatest version of Avamar software with SUSE Linux as a Hyper-V virtual machine.

AVE is similar to single-node Avamar servers in the following ways:

l Runs autonomously as a target for all Avamar client backups

l Performs replication to a physical Avamar system or another AVE

AVE is available in four configurations: 0.5 TB, 1 TB, 2 TB, and 4 TB licensed capacity. AVEis not scalable to a multi-node Avamar server and resizing the virtual machine is notsupported. You can increase storage capacity by deploying additional AVE virtualmachines, and then divide backups among them. Or you can replicate the data toanother Avamar server, delete the smaller virtual machine, create a larger virtualmachine, and replicate the data back to the larger virtual machine.

Appropriate environments for AVEThe following factors have the most direct impact on the long-term reliability, availability,and supportability of the AVE virtual machine:

l I/O performance capability of the AVE storage subsystem

l Amount of data added daily to the AVE virtual machine (change rate)

l Capacity utilized within the AVE virtual machine

Specifications in this section and AVE virtual disk requirements on page 14 describeminimum or maximum requirements for these factors. AVE generally performs betterwhen I/O performance is higher, and change rate and utilized capacity are lower. Tomaximize the capacity the AVE virtual machine can use, the daily change rate of the dataAVE protects must be balanced with adequate I/O performance.

The first step in determining the proper implementation of AVE is to establish which kindof customer environment AVE will be used to protect, file server or mixed environment.File server environments include file system data and mixed environments include filesystem data and structured data (for example, database data).

The following table describes the maximum change rates that AVE supports for file serverand mixed environments.

Table 1 Maximum change rates AVE supports for file server and mixed environments

Configuration File server data Mixed data

0.5 TB AVE Less than 2 GB per day Less than 5 GB per day

1 TB AVE Less than 4 GB per day Less than 10 GB per day



Actual results depend on the retention policy and the actual data change rate. When thedaily change rate exceeds the limits specified in the previous table, deploy a single ormulti-node Avamar server.

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CHAPTER 2

Installation

This chapter includes the following topics:

l Preinstallation requirements and best practices....................................................14l Verifying the DNS configuration.............................................................................14l AVE virtual disk requirements................................................................................14l Software requirements.......................................................................................... 15l Network requirements........................................................................................... 15l Virtual disk configuration best practices................................................................15l Installation............................................................................................................16

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Preinstallation requirements and best practicesBefore you install an AVE virtual machine, follow the preinstallation requirements andreview the best practices in the following sections.

Note

Using third party tools to create clones or exact copies of deployed Avamar Virtual Editionsystems is known to cause issues. Cloning of Avamar Virtual Edition systems is notsupported.

Verifying the DNS configurationPrior to installing AVE, DNS must be properly configured. Failure to have DNS set upproperly can cause runtime or configuration issues. An entry should be created in theDNS server with a fixed IP address for the AVE virtual machine prior to AVE installation.

Procedure

1. Open a command prompt on the Windows 2012/ Windows 2012 R2 Server and typethe following command:

nslookup AVE_IP_address DNS_Server_IP_address

The nslookup command will return the FQDN for AVE.

2. Type the following command:

nslookup AVE_FQDN DNS_Server_IP_address

The nslookup command will return the IP address for AVE.

3. Type the following command:

nslookup FQDN_of_Hyper_V_Server DNS_Server_IP_address

The nslookup command returns the IP address of the Hyper-V Server.

4. If the nslookup commands returned the proper information, close the commandprompt. If the nslookup commands do not return proper information, resolve theDNS configuration before you install AVE.

AVE virtual disk requirementsThe AVE disk layout comprises one operating system disk (126 GB) and several storagepartitions (250 GB or 1000 GB depending on the AVE configuration).

The OS disk stores the operating system, Avamar application and log files.

The storage partitions store the backup data. Backup data is evenly distributed acrossthe storage partitions. The primary amount of the disk read, write, and seek usage occurson the storage partitions. To improve performance in the storage configuration, distributestorage partitions across high performance LUNs.

In addition to the OS partition, the following table defines the number and size of virtualdisks required for each AVE configuration.

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Table 2 AVE virtual disk requirements

AVE configuration Number of virtual disks

0.5 TB 3 storage partitions (250 GB each)

1 TB 6 storage partitions (250 GB each)



Software requirementsBefore you install AVE, ensure you have the software listed in the following table.

Table 3 Additional AVE software installation requirements

Requirement Description

Applications PuTTY, WinSCP, 7Zip, and Hyper-V Manager 6.2/6.3

Files AVE Package, operating system security patches (if applicable)

Network requirementsBefore you install AVE, gather the following information:

l Hostnames and IP addresses for the AVE virtual machine and the DNS Server

l Gateway, netmask, and domain of the AVE virtual machine

l Firewall openings, if applicable

Note

The EMC Avamar Product Security Guide provides client-server data port usage and firewallrequirements.

Virtual disk configuration best practicesHyper-V supports multiple disk formats. For AVE virtual machines, the requirement is touse fixed disks.

The AVE for Hyper-V install file comes with a program called createvhdfast.exe. Thisprogram is used to quickly create one or more virtual hard disk (VHD) files for use withAVE for Hyper-V. The application creates a hard disk file quickly by not filling its contentswith zeros, so the resulting file may contain fragments of previously deleted files. Sincethis data may be accessible by the virtual machine utilizing the resulting disk file, thismay raise security issues.

The createvhdfast.exe program can be used in two modes.

Mode one creates a single VHD file which can then be attached to your Hyper-V virtualmachine as a SCSI disk. Mode one allows greater control in how disks are created andallocated.

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Mode two creates multiple VHD files based on the AVE virtual machine size. The resultingVHD files (three or six depending on the size of the AVE being deployed) are spreadacross defined datastores and can be attached to your Hyper-V virtual machine as SCSIdisks (-datastore1, -datastore2, and -datastore3)

If there are security concerns, EMC recommends you do not use this tool but instead usethe standard Microsoft Hyper-V tools to create virtual hard disk files.

The createvhdfast.exe is covered in Preparing the virtual machine on page 16.

Note

AVE does not support dynamic or differencing disks.

A virtual machine running AVE aggressively uses disk I/O and is almost never idle.Microsoft's recommendations for appropriate resources for high-performance databasevirtual machines are generally applicable to an AVE virtual machine. In particular, astorage pool allocated from a group of dedicated physical disks in a RAID 1 (mirror) orRAID 10 (combines RAID 0 with RAID 1) configuration provides the best performance.

InstallationThe following sections are describe how to install an AVE virtual machine.

Preparing the virtual machineThe following instructions are used to install the virtual machine.

Procedure

1. Download the AVE virtual appliance file for the appropriate version of AVE you areinstalling to the Windows 2012/ Windows 2012 R2 Server (on the Hyper-V host thatwill run AVE).

2. Extract the compressed .7z file.

3. From the .7z uncompressed file, extract the createvhdfast.zip file.

See Virtual disk configuration best practices on page 15 for information on thecreatevhdfast.exe utility and whether should be used or if the disks should bemanually created. If you are manually creating the VHDs skip the following steps oncreatevhdfast.exe.

4. If you are using the createvhdfast.exe utility complete the following steps:

a. Download and install the 32-bit version of vcredist_x86.exe (Microsoft VC++2012 Runtime) directly from Microsoft.

The file can be downloaded from http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=30679. You must use the 32-bit version of this utility even if theWindows operating system is 64-bit.

b. Download and install dotNetFx40_Full_setup.exe (Microsoft .Net 4.0Runtime) directly from Microsoft.

The file can be downloaded from http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=17851.

c. Select Mode 1 or Mode 2.

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http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=30679




Mode Command Options

Mode 1 createvhdfast.exe -size=nG -path=path.vhd

l n is the size of the partition in GB.

l path.vhd is the location of the path and filefor the VHD.

Mode 2 createvhdfast.exe -avetype=n -basename=name -datastore1=path1 [-datastore2=path2] [-datastore3=path3]

l n is one of the following values for the sizeof the AVE virtual machine.

n Use 0.5T for .5 TB AVE

n Use 1T for 1 TB AVE



l name is the name of the VHD.

l pathx is the path to the datastore.

5. Launch Server Manager, select Hyper-V, then right click your Hyper-V host and selectHyper-V Manager.

6. Expand Hyper-V Manager, on the left side of the dialog box select your Hyper-V host.On the right side under Actions, click Import Virtual Machine…

7. From Locate Folder click Browse… and select the folder where you extracted thecompressed file. Click Select Folder and then click Next.

8. From Select Virtual Machine highlight the Virtual Machine, and click Next.

9. From Choose Import Type select Copy the virtual machine (create a new unique ID)and click Next.

10.From Choose Destination accept the default settings and click Next.

11.From Choose Folders to Store Virtual Hard Disks accept the default settings and clickNext.

12.From Summary, review your selections and if correct, click Finish.

13.Once the system has finished importing the virtual machine, right click the virtualmachine and select Settings…

14.In the Settings window, under Hardware, choose SCSI Controller. Select Hard Driveand click Add.

15.In Hard Drive window Virtual hard disk: click Browse.

16.In the Open window, select the File Name and click Open.

17.Repeat steps 14-16 for each VHD associated with the AVE virtual machine size. ClickApply.

18.In the Settings window, under Hardware, select Add Hardware and for the typechoose Network Adapter Click Add.

19.Select the new Network Adapter. The Network Adapter settings are available on theright side of the dialog box. Under Virtual switch: select your network connection'svirtual switch from the drop-down menu. If you need the virtual machines connectionto be tagged with a VLAN ID, under the VLAN ID section, select the checkbox Enablevirtual LAN identification and assign the VLAN ID identifier. Click Apply.

20.In theProcessor window, update the number of virtual CPUs based on the size of theAVE license and click Apply.

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l For 0.5 TB AVE, specify 2 CPUs.

l For 1 TB AVE, specify 2 CPUs.



21.In theMemory window, update the memory size based on the size of the AVE licenseand click Apply click OK.

l For 0.5 TB AVE, specify 6144 MB

l For 1 TB AVE, specify 8192 MB



22.Power on the virtual machine. The system will reboot once after initial power on.

Configuring network settingsThe following procedure is used to configure AVE network configuration for a single IPaddress.

Note

If you need to run the Benchmark Test, skip this section and proceed to BenchmarkTesting on page 21.

Note

If you require dual-mode stack configuration (to support IPv4 and IPv6) refer to the SLESUnix YAST2 documentation.

Procedure

1. At the command prompt, type the following command:

yast2

2. Press Enter.

In YaST2, pressing Ctrl-H backspaces over data to delete existing data.

The YaST2 Control Center dialog box appears.

3. Select Network Devices and press Enter.

The Network Devices dialog box appears.

4. From Network Devices, select Network Settings and press Enter.

5. From Network Settings use the Tab key to access the Edit option and press Enter.

6. From the Network Card Setup use the Tab key to access and select Statically assignedIP Address (select using the spacebar). Tab to IP Address and type in the IPAddress, the Subnet Mask, and the Hostname of the AVE virtual machine.

7. Use the Tab key to select Next and press Enter.

8. FromNetwork Settings, use the Tab key to select Overview. Use the right-arrow key toselect Hostname/DNS. Use the Tab key to specify the following fields:

a. Hostname

b. Domain Name

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c. Name Server 1

d. Name Server 2

e. Domain Search9. Use the Tab key to select Hostname/DNS. Use the right-arrow key to select Routing.

Type in the Default Gateway IP address for the AVE virtual machine. Use the Tabkey to select OK, and then press Enter.

10.From the YaST Control Center, use the Tab key to select Quit and press Enter.

Before proceeding, it is critical to confirm the network settings configured throughYAST2 are correct. Verify that all of the configuration files edited through YAST2 areproperly configured. Refer to the SLES Unix YAST2 documentation for additionalinformation.

11.Wait a couple of minutes and verify the preceding data by typing the followingcommand:

ifconfig

12.Verify basic network configuration of eth0 typing the following command:

ping Static-IP-Address

13.Verify basic network configuration by typing the following commands:

pinggateway_IP_Address

pingDNS_IP Address

nslookup FQDN

Installing and configuring Avamar softwareTo install Avamar software on a new AVE virtual machine, complete the followingprocedure:

Procedure

1. Log in to the Avamar Installation Manager user interface as root.

2. Open a web browser and type the following URL:

https://Avamar-Server:7543/avi/avigui.html

where Avamar-Server is the internal IP address of the Avamar virtual machine.

The EMC Avamar Installation Manager login page appears.

3. If any security messages appear, click Continue.

The EMC Avamar Installation Manager dialog box appears.

4. In the User field type root.

5. In the Password field type changeme.

6. Click Login.

7. Click the SW Updates tab and click the Unlock icon in the upper right corner of thedialog page.

The Passcode dialog box appears.

8. Type in the support password Supp0rtHarV1 for the password (use zero instead of o)and click OK.

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The EMC Avamar Installation Manager dialog box appears. This screen can take a fewminutes to populate.

9. After a few minutes, click the Refresh icon on your web browser to see the installationpackage.

10.Click the Install button.

The installation initialization begins. The initialization extracts files from the packageand prepares the environment for the installation. The process can take a fewminutes.

11.Once the initialization completes, the Installation Setup page appears. Note that thetabs with a red exclamation mark (!) are required for the installation.

By default, the Network Config tab is open.

12.Enter a value of 0 and click Save.

13.Click the ConnectEMC tab and specify the following:

a. For Email sender address type sender email address for email notification

b. For Email server type Hostname of email server for notification emails to EMC

c. For Site name type Description of Avamar server location

d. For Email Server IP Protocol typeIP Protocol used by the email server

e. Click Save

14.Click the Install Patches tab. Install available patches, and then click Save.

15.Click the Passwords tab, and then specify and confirm passwords. Make sure younote these for the customer. Click Save.

16.Click the Customer Contact Info tab, and then specify the customer contactinformation and click Save.

17.(Optional) To set Security Settings, click the Security Settings tab and then configuredesired security settings. Click Save.

18.Click the Server Settings tab. Use the internal IP address for the Avamar ServerAddress field. Select the applicable System timezone name and click Save. ClickContinue.

19.In the User field, type root.

20.In the Password field, if you have not changed the default settings, the password ischangeme. Otherwise type the edited root password.

21.Click Login.

22.Click the SW Updates tab and click the Unlock icon in the upper right corner of thepage.

The Passcode dialog box appears.

23.Type in Supp0rtHarV1 for the password and click OK.

Note

Please check for the latest available security rollup released and install if applicable.

Note

Once AVE is installed, see the EMC Avamar Administration Guide for additionalinformation on setting up and configuring Avamar.

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Benchmark Testing

This appendix includes the following topics:

l Running benchmark testing...................................................................................22l Running ave-part.pl...............................................................................................22l Starting benchmark testing................................................................................... 22l Manually ending benchmark testing......................................................................23l Analyzing benchmark results.................................................................................23l Benchmark failure.................................................................................................24

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Running benchmark testingThere are two purposes for this test:

l To ensure the AVE virtual machine runs in an environment with acceptable I/Operformance.

l To stress virtual machine resources to determine whether the impact of running anAVE virtual machine is acceptable to other applications on the Hyper-V host.

Note

Before running the benchmark test, warn the customer that the test will induce a highload on the Hyper-V host. Monitor the Hyper-V host performance while the tool is runningto determine whether the stress on resources is acceptable. If not, end the test byfollowing the instructions in Manually ending benchmark testing on page 23.

Running ave-part.plThe ave-part.pl command is used to create AVE partitions before the Benchmark Testis run.

Procedure

1. Launch the Hyper-V Manager and connect to a console window.

2. When prompted for a password, type changeme and press Enter.

3. Configure the virtual hard drives by typing the following command and pressing Enter:

/usr/local/avamar/bin/ave-part.pl

When all actions are completed and a Script Complete! message appears in thecommand shell. This script can take several minutes to complete.

Starting benchmark testingThe following steps are used to start the benchmark test:

Procedure


2. When prompted for a password, type changeme and press Enter.

3. Run the benchmark test by typing the following command:

/usr/local/avamar/bin/24hr-benchmark.sh &

While the test is running, monitor the host Hyper-V Server’s performance. If the stresson resources is unacceptable, end the test with the instructions. See Manually endingbenchmark testing on page 23 for more detail.

The test runs for 24 hours unless it is manually ended (see next section). Thiscommand also copies operational status data to a log file.

4. After 24 hours, confirm the test has successfully ended by typing the followingcommand:

ps -ax | grep benchmark

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Blank output indicates the test is complete.

5. Save test results by typing the following commands:

cd /root

tar –cvf CUSTOMERNAME_benchmark-results.tar YYYYMMDD_benchmark

Manually ending benchmark testingBy default, the benchmark test runs for 24 hours and does not need to be manuallyended. If the stress on resources is unacceptable, the following steps can be used tomanually end benchmark testing.

Procedure


/usr/local/avamar/bin/kill-benchmark.sh

2. Wait at least 30 seconds, and then type the following command:

ps ax | grep benchmark

Blank output indicates the test has been stopped.

3. Delete data from the following directory:

/usr/local/avamar/bin/

Blank output indicates the test is complete.

Analyzing benchmark resultsTest results are written to:

/DIRECTORY/dt_std_HOSTNAME_summary/DIRECTORY/seektest_only_summary_1 filesThe following table lists minimal acceptable benchmark test results for 0.5 TB AVE:

Table 4 0.5 TB AVE minimum benchmark test results

Conditions File server data Mixed data

Total Minimal Read Throughput 60 MB/sec 75 MB/sec

Total Read Throughput 60 MB/sec 75 MB/sec

Total Minimal Write Throughput 30 MB/sec 60 MB/sec

Total Write Throughput 30 MB/sec 60 MB/sec

Total Seek Minimal Throughput for 4 Threads 300 seeks/sec 300 seeks/sec

Total Seek Throughput for 4 Threads 325 seeks/sec 325 seeks/sec

The following table lists minimal acceptable benchmark test results for 1 TB AVE:

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Table 5 1 TB AVE minimum benchmark test results


























Benchmark failureIf minimum acceptable benchmark results cannot be achieved, delete the virtual machineby performing the following:

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Note

Do not perform the following procedure if benchmark results are satisfactory. In thatcase, continue installing AVE.

Procedure

1. Log in as root.

When prompted for a password, type changeme and press Enter.

2. On the Hyper-V tab, type the following command:

poweroff

3. In middle pane Virtual Machines, right-click the virtual machine you want to remove.

4. Delete the VHDs created during the AVE installation.

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