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Install Bare Metal Jumphost
---------------------------
-1. If your Jumphost does not have CentOS 7 already on it, or you would like to do a fresh
- install, then download the Apex bootable ISO <http://artifacts.opnfv.org/> here.
+1a. If your Jumphost does not have CentOS 7 already on it, or you would like to do a fresh
+ install, then download the Apex bootable ISO from OPNFV artifacts <http://artifacts.opnfv.org/>.
-2. Boot the ISO off of a USB or other installation media and walk through installing OPNFV CentOS 7.
- The ISO comes prepare to be written directly to a USB drive with dd as such:
+1b. If your Jump host already has CentOS 7 with libvirt running on it then install the
+ opnfv-apex RPM from OPNFV artifacts <http://artifacts.opnfv.org/>.
+
+2a. Boot the ISO off of a USB or other installation media and walk through installing OPNFV CentOS 7.
+ The ISO comes prepared to be written directly to a USB drive with dd as such:
``dd if=opnfv-apex.iso of=/dev/sdX bs=4M``
Replace /dev/sdX with the device assigned to your usb drive. Then select the USB device as the
boot media on your Jumphost
-3. After OS is installed login to your Jumphost as root.
+2b. Install the RDO Release RPM and the opnfv-apex RPM:
+
+ ``sudo yum install -y https://www.rdoproject.org/repos/rdo-release.rpm opnfv-apex-{version}.rpm``
+
+ The RDO Project release repository is needed to install OpenVSwitch, which is a dependency of
+ opnfv-apex. If you do not have external connectivity to use this repository you need to download
+ the OpenVSwitch RPM from the RDO Project repositories and install it with the opnfv-apex RPM.
+
+3. After the operating system and the opnfv-apex RPM are installed, login to your Jumphost as root.
4. Configure IP addresses on the interfaces that you have selected as your networks.