Download and Deploy Apstra ZTP Server VM

Release: Juniper Apstra 4.2

date_range 07-Feb-24

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Make sure the server that you'll be using for Apstra ZTP meets minimum resource requirements, then download and deploy the Apstra ZTP server VM.

Download and Deploy VM

Check that the VM you'll be using for Apstra ZTP meets resource requirements.

Apstra ZTP software is delivered as a standalone VM. It's available for each Apstra version and supported hypervisor. As a registered support user, download the appropriate Apstra ZTP VM image from Juniper Support Downloads Application Tools section.

Table 1: Apstra ZTP Images
Apstra ZTP Image for VMware ESXi	apstra-ztp-4.2.*-<build-version>.ova (example: apstra-ztp-4.2.0-34.ova)
Apstra ZTP Image for Microsoft Hyper-V	apstra-ztp-4.2.*-<build-version>.vhdx.gz (example: apstra-ztp-4.2.0-34.vhdx.gz)
Apstra ZTP Image for Linux KVM QCOW2	apstra-ztp-4.2.*-<build-version>.qcow2.gz (example: `apstra-ztp-4.2.0-34.qcow2.gz`)

Validate the downloaded file against the SHA512/MD5 checksums provided.

Deploy the VM with the appropriate resources.

NGINX (HTTP), TFTP, Status, DHCPd, and MySQL Docker containers are enabled and run, by default.

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admin@apstra-ztp:~$ docker ps
CONTAINER ID   IMAGE                    COMMAND                  CREATED        STATUS        PORTS                                                                      NAMES
5f6609074deb   apstra/nginx:4.2.0-34    "sh /init.sh"            29 hours ago   Up 29 hours   0.0.0.0:80->80/tcp, :::80->80/tcp, 0.0.0.0:443->443/tcp, :::443->443/tcp   nginx
3f0dbe2be17b   apstra/tftp:4.2.0-34     "sh /init.sh"            29 hours ago   Up 29 hours   0.0.0.0:69->69/udp, :::69->69/udp                                          tftp
1e05ab10a552   apstra/status:4.2.0-34   "sh /init.sh"            29 hours ago   Up 29 hours   8080/tcp                                                                   status
cd7aa8ad372b   apstra/dhcpd:4.2.0-34    "sh /init.sh"            29 hours ago   Up 28 hours                                                                              dhcpd
12e35bc71b20   mysql:8.0.33             "docker-entrypoint.s…"   29 hours ago   Up 29 hours   3306/tcp, 33060/tcp                                                        db
admin@apstra-ztp:~$

If you don't want to use the Apstra ZTP DHCP server, stop the dhcpd container and disable it, as shown below.
```
admin@apstra-ztp:~$ docker stop dhcpd
dhcpd
admin@apstra-ztp:~$ docker update --restart=no dhcpd
dhcpd
admin@apstra-ztp:~$
```

Next Step: Configure the Static Management IP Address for the Apstra ZTP server.

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