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.
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/netezza, nz/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
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.
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.
And that’s it. VMware player is installed and available for use.
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.
Change the virtual machine memory settings and set it to minimum 2GB.
And, make sure virtual machine processor settings are as per below image;
And that would be it.
Finally, start virtual machine and login to Netezza appliances with default credentials.
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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