Installing Aruba Airwave from ISO in VMware Worstation (for lab) by Ulises Cazares

 In the following images you will find the steps to install Aruba Airwave in VMware workstation 16 from the ISO file. I created tthis post due to several try and error attemps to create the VM. Hopefully you won't spend a lot of time to create it like a did.


1.Download the ISO from asp.arubanetworks.com
2.Create the Virtual machine
1.The paramaters I used and work well are:
1. 4 processors
2. 8G of RAM
3. 60G disk
4. Bridge Networking to use your home or lab network 
 
3.Follow the wizard to install CentOs and then AMP softwar
 
 
Once you have the ISO you can create the VM:

 

 The last image shows the slection of the previously downloaded ISO and then you just can turn on the VM to start the installation

When this screen apperas, just hit enter

 
 
 The 119th step will take some time, be patient

 

When the firts installation step is finished you’ll see the login screen. Use root for user and admin for password to enter

 


 

Change the time accordingly 

 

 


 

 

Change the time zone accordingly.

For Monterrey, Mexico it´ll be the following sequence: 2, 32,4



Then press 1 and enter to accept the configuration and 0 to finish



After finishing the time config it will take several minutes to install the amp software (be patient again)

 

Create the amprecovery and ampadmin users following the wizard(you can hit enter to use the defaults for both users) and remember the ampadmin password entered in this step


 

Configure the network settings,at least: 1,2,3,6 and commit changes with 9


 
Type y to restart networking

 

Restart Networking, create the ssl cert answering the questions and that’s it!!!

 

After configuring the settings wait a few minutes until you try the GUI using the IP you configured https://AirwaveIP

  

Login with admin for user and the same password from the last step.

 

Now you have installed Aruba Airwave

 

Comments

  1. EsaúMarch 9, 2022 at 11:24 AM

    great post as usual Ulises.

    What about Central OnPremise? is the opposite to AirWave?

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    1. Ulises CazaresMarch 15, 2022 at 9:40 AM

      Hi, it's not the opposite but like a new version going forward.

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