Getting started with KHIKA

Introduction

When setting up and configuring KHIKA in your organisation network, you need to perform few steps and shall find this page helpful for the same. For more information on KHIKA components you can click here.

Provisioning the Virtual Appliance

KHIKA is installed as a Virtual Appliance on your organisation’s VMware platform. There is at least one KHIKA core app server VM. In addition, there can be optional collector nodes or KHIKA aggregator VMs, one at each location where the data sources are present. For more information refer to KHIKA Data Aggregator.

Download the KHIKA Virtual Appliance in the form of a .ova file on your VMware platform.

Pre requisites for KHIKA VM

We recommend following minimum hardware resources to be allocated to the KHIKA VMs

KHIKA Central Server

CPU= 16 vCPU Memory = 64GB Disk1=500GB (for KHIKA Application, OS etc) Disk1 = 2 TB (to begin with for storing KHIKA data.) Network= Fast ethernet with static IP OS: Bundled with KHIKA Virtual Appliance Download Link: https://goo.gl/74kRRi After you download KHIKA Virtual Appliance, use the attached document to provision the VM in your ESXi virtual environment and allocate a static IP address to it.