- Overview
- Product Documentation
- CML 2.3 Release Notes
- CML 2.3 Installation Guide
- CML 2.3 User Guide
- CML User's Guide
- Overview of CML 2.x
- Using CML and the HTML5 UI
- Dashboard
- Workbench
- Adding Nodes to a Lab
- Starting, Stopping, and Wiping Nodes
- Deleting Nodes
- Creating Links
- Rules for Creating Links and Interface Overprovisioning
- Adding Interfaces and Overprovisioning
- Overprovisioning Interfaces with Link Creation
- Hiding Links
- Starting Simulations
- Connecting to a Node's Console
- Changing Global Console Settings
- Download the Console History
- Setting CPU limit on node
- Launch sequencing and CPU limiting
- Stopping Simulations
- External Connectivity for Simulations
- Link Packet Capture
- Lab Sharing
- Console Server
- Breakout Tool
- Custom VM Images
- Creating a New Node Definition
- CML 2.3 Admin Guide
- Resources
Copy the Refplat ISO to Disk¶
CML now requires all of the reference platforms that your labs will use to be present on the local disk. CML will no longer use these VM images from the mounted refplat ISO file. If you did not copy the contents of the refplat ISO to your local disk during the Initial Set-up, you may use the Copy Refplat ISO to Disk button in the System Administration Cockpit to perform the copy after the installation is complete.
Ensure that no one is trying to use the CML server while the Copy Refplat ISO to Disk is running.
Your CML server should be running and should have the refplat ISO mounted as a CD/DVD drive.
Log into the System Administration Cockpit by following the Logging into the System Administration Cockpit instructions.
In the System Administration Cockpit, click CML2 in the navigation bar on the left side of the page and expand the Copy Refplat ISO item in the Maintenance section.
Click the Copy Refplat ISO button.
Depending on the network and disk speeds, it can take several minutes to a couple of hours to copy the entire contents of the refplat ISO to your CML server’s disk.
It is safe to restart the copy process if it fails or is stopped. It will avoid overwriting files and will intelligently resume copying a partially-copied qcow2 file.
The copy process will fail if there are any labs running on the CML server, if the refplat ISO is not mounted as a CD/DVD drive, or if there is insufficient space on the CML server for the contents of the refplat ISO image.
The copy process can also fail if the remote CD/DVD drive connection is unreliable. If the copy process fails when using the refplat ISO as a mounted CD/DVD drive, you may instead copy the refplat ISO file to the CML server.
Unmount or disable the CD/DVD drive that was using the refplat ISO file.
Enable the
sshdservice for the CML server via the Services page in the System Administration Cockpit.Use
scpto copy the refplat ISO file to the following location on the CML server: /opt/refplat_images.iso.Restart the controller services via the CML2 page in the System Administration Cockpit.
Finally, re-run the Copy Refplat ISO again. This time, the process will use the /opt/refplat_images.iso file that’s already on the CML server as the source of the VM images.
Once the Copy Refplat ISO proceess succedes, you may delete the /opt/refplat_images.iso file.
The node definitions and image definitions from the refplat ISO have been copied to your CML server. Your CML server no longer needs to have the refplat ISO image mounted as a CD/DVD drive. Your CML server is now ready to run simulations.