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Launching a TDV Windows Image on AWS Marketplace
Follow these steps to launch a Windows image of TDV:
1. Login to the AWS portal https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace
Note: You will need a valid AWS account to access TDV in the marketplace.
2. Go to the “Search” area at the top of the page and search for “Tibco Data Virtualization” to find the latest version of the product.
3. Select the appropriate TDV offering, based on the license type and operating system.
4. Click on “Continue to Subscribe”.
5. Review EULA and price information (click “Show Details”) and then click on “Continue to Configuration”.
6. Review the fulfillment options and choose the appropriate “Region”. Then click on “Continue to Launch”.
7. “EC2 Instance Type” uses a default TDV medium resource configuration value. Choose another one if you are running a larger TDV workload. Refer to Sizing Guidelines for TDV for more details.
Note: It is recommended that the EC2 Instance Type should be at least 2 CPUs and 8GB of memory.
8. Choose the Network settings appropriate for your AWS account. (i.e. VPC settings and Subnet settings).
9. Choose the recommended Security Group settings.
a. Click on “Create New Based On Seller Settings” button in the “Security Group Settings” section.
b. Provide a name and description for this new TDV specific security group. A reference to the TDV ports exposed in this recommended Security Group can be found in Default TDV Security Group Configuration.
c. Click on “Save”.
10. Select an existing key pair or create a new one.
11. Click on Launch.
Connecting to the TDV Windows Instance
Connecting to the virtual machine using the Remote Desktop is an essential step of launching the TDV Windows server on AWS. Follow these steps to connect to the virtual machine:
1. Login to the AWS Console.
2. Click on the “EC2 dashboard” located in the left vertical menu.
3. Click on the “Running instances” link under the “Resources” area of the EC2 Dashboard.
4. Select the check box for your TDV instance.
5. Click on the “Connect” button.
6. In the new popup window displayed,
a. Click on the Download the Remote Desktop File.
b. Click on Get Password. Save this password in a secure location.
7. Connect to AWS launched server using the downloaded RDP file and password obtained.
Note: Once connected to the virtual machine, a command window opens and the TDV installation starts. Wait for the installation to complete before closing the window. It takes approximately 15-20 minutes for the installation to complete.
Connecting to the TDV Server Application
Follow these steps to Launch the TDV server using the Windows image:
1. Login to AWS Console.
2. Click on the “EC2 Dashboard” displayed on the left vertical menu.
3. Click on the “Running instances” link under the “Resources” area of the EC2 Dashboard.
4. Select the check box for your TDV instance.
5. In the Description area, find IPv4 Public IP and copy the value.
6. Now you can access your TDV Server in the AWS environment via the TDV service ports defined in your TDV Security group (Refer Default TDV Security Group Configuration)
Examples
1. Browser client: http://<PUBLIC_IP>:9400 to access the TDV Web Manager client.
2. TDV Studio client:
host=<PUBLIC_IP>
port=9400
3. JDBC client: host=<PUBLIC_IP>, port=9401
Note: The default TDV Admin password can be found at TDV Admin Password