Installing Streams Quick Start Edition VM Image

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The Streams Quick Start Editor can help you get started with Streams quickly, without having to install a Streams cluster environment.

This guide takes you through the process of installing and starting the QSE VM image.

System Requirements

Components	Minimum Requirements	Comments
Operating System	64-bit operating system that supports VMware	VMware is supported on the following operating systems: - Apple Mac OS X - Linux - Microsoft Windows
Memory	8 GB	The amount of memory that is required by IBM Streams is dependent on the applications that are developed and deployed. This minimum requirement is based on the memory requirements of the Commodity Purchasing sample application and other samples that are provided with the product.
Disk space	20 GB
Virtualization software	Virtualization product that runs on a 64-bit operating system	To run the Quick Start Edition VMware image, install one of the following products on your system: - For Apple Mac OS X, VMware Fusion 4, or later - For Microsoft Windows or Linux, one of the following products: VMware Player 5.0 +; VMware Workstation 8.0 +; VMware Server Tip: You can use other virtualization software that supports VMDK formats, such as Oracle VirtualBox.

Your Streams ID for the Quick Start Edition is streamsadmin, and your password is passw0rd. The root ID password is also passw0rd.

The Quick Start Edition is available only in English.

Performance notes:

By default, the Quick Start Edition virtual machine is configured to have two processor cores and 4 GB of memory. Depending on your system resources and the applications that you develop and deploy, you might be able to improve performance by allocating more processor cores and memory to the virtual machine. You can adjust the processor and memory configuration by updating your virtual machine settings. For example, to update these settings for the VMware Player, click Player > Manage > Virtual Machine Settings.
If you import the VMware image into a non-VMware virtualization product and have performance problems with the image, enable any available options that can reduce guest disk input/output latency. For example, in the Oracle VM VirtualBox Manager, select the Use Host I/O Cache option in the Storage Controller settings for the virtual machine.

Download the vmware-streamsVxxx.zip file (where Vxxx is the version number of the Quick Start Edition).
Extract the contents of the vmware-streamsVxxx.zip file.

This .zip file contains the following files:
```
vmware-streamsVxxx-qse-v1.vmx, which is in the vmware-streamsVxxx-qse-v1.vmwarevm directory
```
Several Virtual Disk-snumber.vmdk files, which are in the vmware-streamsVxxx-qse-v1.vmwarevm directory
Start the Quick Start Edition VMware image by double-clicking the vmware-streamsVxxx-qse-v1.vmx file.
The first time that you start the image, respond to the following prompts:
1. Select I copied it to indicate that the virtual machine was copied. CentOS splash screen is displayed, and then followed by several screens of status messages.
2. To continue, accept all of the following license agreements:
  - CentOS
  - VMware tools
  - IBM® Streams
To navigate in the license agreement screens, use the Tab and Arrow keys. Press the Enter key to continue.

After you accept the license agreements, status messages are displayed and the Quick Start Edition VMware image desktop opens.

Download and extract the vmware-streamsVxxx.zip file (where Vxxx is the version number of the Quick Start Edition).
In Oracle VM VirtualBox Manager, click New and follow the instructions in the wizard:
1. Specify a name of your virtual machine and select the Linux Red Hat (64 bit) operating system.
2. Set the amount of memory to use for your virtual machine. The optimal setting depends on your hardware and usage. The more you allocate, the faster your virtual machine will run. You can adjust the setting later, if necessary.
3. Select to use an existing virtual hard disk file, then browse for the vmware-streamsV#.#-qse-v1.vmdk file that you extracted earlier and click Open.
4. Click Create. Now your new virtual machine is listed in the Oracle VM VirtualBox Manager.
From the list, select your new virtual machine and click Settings:
1. Select System > Processor and specify 2 virtual CPUs.
2. Select the Storage tab and make sure that the Use Host I/O Cache option is selected.
3. Click OK to save your settings.
To run your virtual machine, select it and click Start.

Explore the Streams QSE VMWare image following the Quick Start Edition VM Getting Started Guide