DryvIQ Platform POC Microsoft Azure Marketplace Offer
- Andrea Harvey
Overview
DryvIQ offers a DryvIQ Platform POC offer in the Azure Marketplace. Customers who want to use DryvIQ in their Microsoft Azure tenant can install the offer as part of their proof of concept (POC) to test the platform’s features and capabilities against their business use case(s). The DryvIQ POC costs $2,500 monthly and is limited to 2 TB (scanned or migrated). Most POCs should only take four weeks but can run longer if needed. Contact marketplace@dryviq.com to obtain the license key required to deploy the offer.
POC Infrastructure
The DryvIQ Platform POC offer requires the following infrastructure:
Single-node Linux virtual machine
Small network with Network Security Groups in place
Deployment
The DryvIQ POC offering is available in the Microsoft Azure Marketplace. The only configuration information required from DryvIQ is a DryvIQ license. Ensure you have the license key before you begin the deployment process. Then, use the following information to access and install the offer. Note that you must sign into your Microsoft account to acquire the offer.
Navigate to the Azure Marketplace and search for DryvIQ.
Click Get it now on the DryvIQ Intelligent Data Management option.
You are navigated to your Azure Portal to complete the setup. Click Continue to begin.
Select the DryvIQ Platform POC option from the Plan list and click Create.
You will be presented with the Azure portal blades. These blades configure the infrastructure and application variables passed to the template for completion. DryvIQ needs to provide only the DryvIQ license as a configuration option. If you do not have a DryvIQ license key, contact marketplace@dryviq.com. Work through the blades from left to right and configure the information.
Basics Blade
Select your subscription preference, resource group, and region on this blade. You must also define a name for the Azure Managed Application and the Managed Resource Group that Azure will create. Once you have provided the required information, click Next to continue.
General Settings Blade
The managed application's default project name is “dryviq,” but you can edit it if you prefer a different name. The project name ensures that all resources created are generated using this name tag.
Authentication Settings Blade
This blade provides the option to deploy the Linux virtual machine with either a specified password or a private/public key offering (which you can provide or which can be generated by Azure). This authentication follows the same basic principles as deploying a standalone virtual machine in Azure.
Password
Passwords require an admin username (which defaults to “dryviquser”) and a secure password.
SSH Key
When using SSH public key authentication, the SSH key can be generated by Azure, reused from your existing pool in Azure, or added directly into the blade prompt.
DryvIQ Settings Blade
This blade contains the DryvIQ version, license, and extensions version. The version fields default to the latest DryvIQ release version, so you should leave these values. Enter the DryvIQ license key you received from DryvIQ. Contact marketplace@dryviq.com to obtain the license key if you do not have one.
Database Settings Blade
This blade is used to set the system passwords. All passwords are internal to the DryvIQ Platform and are not consumed by Azure. The passwords use a 12-character minimum length to ensure increased security.
Virtual Machine Configuration Blade
By default, the offer will request a Standard D4s V3 machine type, which provides enough performance for a basic POC task. However, DryvIQ supports multiple instance types here, so the hardware can scale vertically during deployment if needed.
Review + Create
Once you have completed the previous blades, you complete the deployment process on the Review + create blade. Validation runs to ensure you have provided the required information. Once validation is complete, click Create. This process will complete the following actions:
Launch a new managed application in the selected Resource Group
Managed ApplicationCreate a new Resource Group as defined on the Basics blade
Deploy Networking and VM infrastructure
Install Kubernetes on the VM
Install the DryvIQ Platform per the configuration settings in the workflow.
Next Steps
You are now ready to begin your POC. Log in to the DryvIQ Platform using your Microsoft account and the DryvIQ users' password specified on the Database Setting blade. To help you as you get started with the DryvIQ Platform, we’ve provided links to the relevant documentation in the knowledge base for key activities that should be a part of your POC. You can also visit the DryvIQ Platform knowledge base to learn more about all the features available on the platform.
Create connections: You must create at least one connection. However, you may need more connections depending on your POC test cases. The information required to create each connection depends on the platform. Refer to the connector documentation for your platforms to ensure you have the required information.
Create Discover scans: Discover scans allow you to analyze your content so you can make informed decisions based on your business requirements. You control the scan data source, what the scan identifies, and how you want the scan to run.
Review the scan results: DryvIQ provides multiple ways to view the findings. You can view the full scan results and filter and sort the content as you please, or you can use the prebuilt insights to review dashboards for File Inventory, Document Categories, Sharing & Access Control, and Stale Data. If you want something more specific, you can build custom insights dashboards to ensure the information you need is always readily available.
The links above represent only some of the information available in our knowledge base, so look around. If you cannot find answers to your questions, we recommend contacting your DryvIQ POC contact.