1

Ensure that the virtual machines you plan to use to deploy Avaya Aura® Device Services comply with the requirements for software-only installation.

For information about the Google Cloud Platform virtual machine size that is required for each Avaya Aura® Device Services profile, see Resource profile specifications for Google Cloud Platform virtual machines.

2

Download the Avaya Aura® Device Services software-only installation package from PLDS.

The software-only installation package includes the following files:

• Software-only system layer installer.

• Avaya Aura® Device Services application installer.

The package file name has the aads-swonly-AADS_VERSION.tgz format.

For more information about the software downloading process, see Downloading software from PLDS.

3

Prepare your Google Cloud Platform environment for software-only installation.

See Prerequisites for software-only deployment on Google Cloud Platform.

4

Create VPC network peering.

See Creating VPC peering.

5

Configure firewall rules for the VPC networks.

See Configuring firewall rules.

6

Assign the firewall rules to virtual machines.

See Assigning firewall rules to virtual machines.

7

Deploy a virtual machine with Red Hat Enterprise Linux on Google Cloud Platform.

Avaya Aura® Device Services requires the RHEL 8.4 or RHEL 8.10 operating system. For information about deploying a Linux virtual machine in Google Cloud Platform, see steps in Virtual machine deployment checklist.

8

If you deploy a cluster, create an instance group.

See Creating an instance group for load balancers.

9

If you deploy a cluster, create and configure load balancers.

See Creating load balancers.

10

Add the required virtual hard disks to your virtual machines.

See Creating required virtual hard disks for a virtual machine.

11

Enable root access to RHEL.

RHEL deployed on Google Cloud Platform does not have the root user enabled by default. For more information, see Enabling root access.

12

Enable LVM on RHEL.

See Enabling LVM on RHEL.

13

Create disk partitioning on RHEL.

Avaya Aura® Device Services requires specific disk partitioning to organize data storage. For more information about creating disk partitioning, see Creating disk partitioning for a Google Cloud Platform virtual machine and Disk partitions for software-only deployments.

14

Make entries in the /etc/hosts/ file permanent.

See Enabling editing of the /etc/hosts file.

15

Create a non-root Linux user.

The installation and administration of the Avaya Aura® Device Services server are more secure when performed by non-root users with sudo privileges. For more information about creating non-root Linux users, see Creating an administrative user.

16

Install additional packages required by Avaya Aura® Device Services.

By default, RHEL 8.4 or RHEL 8.10 does not contain certain packages that Avaya Aura® Device Services requires. You must install these packages manually. For more information, see Additional packages required by Avaya Aura Device Services and Installing additional RHEL 8.4 or RHEL 8.10 packages manually.

17

Enable the Haveged service.

See Enabling the Haveged service.

18

Enable FIPS mode (optional).

For software-only deployments, you can only enable FIPS mode before installing the system layer. For more information about enabling FIPS, see Enabling FIPS for software-only systems.

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For more information, see RHEL packages management and Enabling required RHEL repositories.

Registering your RHEL instance to the Red Hat subscription is the preferred option.

20

Prepare your RHEL system for installing the software-only system layer.

See Prerequisites for installing the system layer on Google Cloud Platform.

21

Install the software-only system layer on your RHEL.

The system layer is low-level software that forms the required operational environment for Avaya Aura® Device Services.

For more information, see Installing the system layer.

22

Ensure that:

• The chronyd service is up and running.

• System Manager and Session Manager are reachable from your virtual machine. This is only required if you deploy Avaya Aura® Device Services in Avaya Aura® environment.

Perform these checks to ensure that the system layer is installed so you can install the Avaya Aura® Device Services application.

For more information, see Checking the Chrony service status and Checking the connection to System Manager and Session Manager.