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Neji hyuga
Neji hyuga

Reputation: 59

Can we install teradata express on GCP compute instance?

I'm trying to work out a way to install teradata express on GCP compute instance or any other GCP compute service?? any leads would be appreciated.. thank you..!!

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Answers (2)

Adam Tworkiewicz
Adam Tworkiewicz

Reputation: 1

Yes, you can run Vantage Express on GCP using nested virtualization. Here is the official how-to document: https://quickstarts.teradata.com/vantage.express.gcp.html.

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mebius99
mebius99

Reputation: 2605

Teradata Express for VMware Player is provided as a pre-configured VMware virtual machine based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 (SLES11). It supposes VMware Player or VMware Server as an execution environment.

Inside of the downloaded package there is a VMX file. This is the primary configuration file, which stores settings chosen in the New Virtual Machine Wizard or virtual machine settings editor. See VMware: What Files Make Up a Virtual Machine?

SLES version 11 is not supported on GCE so you can't install Teradata Express on GCP "as is". See Compute Engine > Documentation > Supported operating systems

If you really need to get the Teradata Express for VMware Player working on GCE you should upgrade the SLES11 VM to SLES12 or SLES15 on VMware Player, and then import this VM into GCE.

Updating and Upgrading SUSE Linux Enterprise › Upgrading SUSE Linux Enterprise

Upgrading to SUSE® Linux Enterprise 12 > SLE11 to SLE12 Migration

While upgrading from SLES11 to SLES12 you should keep in mind that UEFI bootloaders are not supported in GCE for imported disks.

Having got Teradata Express on SLES12, you can consider two ways for import.

1. Create a new VM instance on GCE and use a pre-configured virtual disk with Teradata on SLES12 for creation of a boot disk image. The import tool supports most virtual disk file formats, including VMDK, VHD, and RAW. For more information, see Compute Engine > Documentation > Importing virtual disks.

2. Import a VM in OVF format into Compute Engine accordingly with Compute Engine > Documentation > Importing virtual appliances. The source VM could be whether in an OVF package or in an OVA single file. To convert VMware VMX to OVF or OVA you can use Open Virtualization Format Tool (ovftool). Please see OVF Tool User Guide for more details.

Both of these methods look a bit more complicated when you consider that Google provides its own data warehouse solutions: you could consider migration from Teradata to BigQuery so that use native solution provided and (what's important) supported by Google.

BigQuery Data Transfer Service > Documentation > Migrating data from Teradata

Solutions > Migrating data warehouses to BigQuery

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