How to install vmware player and Netezza Emulator on ubuntu

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The Netezza emulator is an emulated Netezza appliance that runs both a virtual host and a virtual S-Blade. It is a fully functional system to be used for initial development and testing only. This tool should never be used in the PRODUCTION environment. It is simply a tool for developers only and you cannot use it for performance optimization. You can use this tool to learn the Netezza appliance.

Install Netezza Emulator

Note: This tutorial is tested on the ubuntu 14.04

Useful Netezza Emulator Information

Short information that you might want to know before start using Netezza emulator

  • You should treat Netezza emulator as a regular NPS server, use ssh tool like putty or terminal to connect host. You can get the host ip from emulator GUI or type hostname -Icommand in VM terminal to get ip address
  • Usernames/password for Host: root/netezzanz/nz
  • Usernames/password for database: admin/password

System Requirement to Run Netezza Emulator

  • 64 bit machine: Because the Emulator is based on NPS software that was built specifically for 64 bit Intel, Emulator requires a 64 bit machine
  • Processor: 4 processor cores (or 2 with HT) with Intel VT or AMD-V support
  • Memory: 4GB or Greater
  • Hard Disk: 180GB+ Free Space
  • VMware player1 or higher

Download Required Software and Emulator

Download VMware Player

VMware Player is on of the best application for desktop and server virtualization in Linux. You can download the VMWare player from below link

VMware Player Download – Download VMware Player for Linux 64-bit Linux

Netezza Emulator VMware Download page

Download Netezza Emulator

NZ emulator is a virtual Netezza appliances. You can download  emulator software from official IBM developer networks page. Registration to IBM developer networks is mandatory before downloading any software’s.

Netezza Emulator Download – Download latest version available.

IBM Netezza Emulator download

Now, You have all the required software’s and you can proceed to installation steps

Install VMware Player

In this section, you will learn how to install VMware Player in Ubuntu. Follow below step to install VMware player.

Change execution permission

Change the execution permission on the downloaded file. Use below command

vithal@vithal-Inspiron-3558:~$ chmod +x ~/Downloads/VMware-Player

Start Installation

Assuming files are downloaded to ~/Downloads folder. Fire the below command in terminal to start the installation.

vithal@vithal-Inspiron-3558:~$sudo sh ~/Downloads/VMware-Player*

This will open an installation window and like any other software application, click on next in most of the installation screens. Below are list of screen shots for your information.

Netezza Emulator - VMware_License

VMware_lince_key

VMware_install

VMware_Install_Prog

VMware_Install_complt

And that’s it. VMware player is installed and available for use.

Netezza Emulator VMware

So now, the VMware is ready and next steps is to add the Netezza emulator to it. Next step, is to install Emulator

Install Netezza Emulator

In this section, you will learn how to install Netezza emulator. Assuming emulator tool is already downloaded and copied to your local location.

Open VMware player and click on “Open a Virtual machine” at right pane. This will open a pop-up and ask you to select .ova file which you downloaded. Next, click on the import button. VMware player will take few minutes to import and create new virtual machine from emulator file.

Netezza Emulator installation

Change the virtual machine memory settings and set it to minimum 2GB.

VMware setting for Netezza Emulator

And, make sure virtual machine processor settings are as per below image;

VMware processor settings for Netezza Emulator

And that would be it.

Finally, start virtual machine and login to Netezza appliances with default credentials.

Netezza Emulator - login to Netezza

I hope this tutorial helped you to install VMware player and Netezza emulator. Feel free to comment any suggestions or question.

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