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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Teradata on GCP is not yet publicly available, only AWS and Azure. – dnoeth May 11 '20 at 06:55
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not talking about custom images, like can i install teradata from https://downloads.teradata.com/download/database/teradata-express-for-vmware-player on any of linux machine like centos or ubuntu?? – Neji hyuga May 11 '20 at 10:56
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Teradata runs on SLES (Suse Enterprise Linux) only – dnoeth May 11 '20 at 12:46
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There is a VMWare Workstation Player for Linux so in theory you might be able to install that on one of the GCP instances that supports [Nested Virtualization](https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/instances/enable-nested-virtualization-vm-instances) and run the Teradata Express VM within that. But with two levels of virtualization and the already limited Express configuration, it may not be worth doing. – Fred May 14 '20 at 00:54
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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
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I doubt you can simply upgrade the SLES11 within the TDExpress, there will be lots of dependencies in the Teradata packages. – dnoeth May 12 '20 at 08:58
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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.
