Using Live System

You can use Live System for troubleshooting and performance testing. To perform procedures, it is recommended to have sufficient Linux experience.

Accessing Live System

To access Live System, do the following:

  1. Boot the ISO.
  2. Select Live System.
  3. Log in using the vhradmin account with the password vhradmin. The first time you access Live System, you will be asked to change your password. There are no complexity or length requirements.

Tip

Live System uses the US English keyboard layout.

If you want to access Live System through an SSH connection, perform the following steps:

  1. In the Live System mode, check that the server has an IP address. If you do not have DHCP enabled, configure your IP address using nmtui.
  2. Run the following command:

sudo systemctl start sshd

  1. Connect to the server using your SSH client.

Note

When you reboot or shut down Live System, SSH will be automatically disabled.

Scripts

Live System includes the following predefined scripts:

  • hardware_collection.sh — Collects information on your system hardware and writes it to the /tmp/hardware.txt file.
  • mount_datavol.sh — Mounts the data volume to /mnt/veeam-repository01.
  • mount_systemvol.sh — Mounts the operating system volume to /mnt/.

Tools

Live System has the following tools installed:

  • fio — Used to test the performance of your data volumes.
  • iperf3 — Used to test your network performance.
  • tcpdump — Used to analyze your network traffic.

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