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Patriot PSPersonal Server
Importing Virtual Appliance Image
Pradeep Nambiar
Patriot PS Product Architect & Developer
Founder, Pexus LLC
Your Server, Your Data, Your Terms !
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Patriot PS – Personal Server Solution Editions
• Patriot PS - Personal Server - System• All in one hardware and software solution
• Available as a small, fan less computing device - Comes with 500GB Hard Disk, 4GB Memory, Dual
Core Intel Atom processor or similar
• Pre-installed with Pexus Patriot PS distribution and Pexus ppsconfig – configuration application
• Ready to run, just configure and go
• Quite and fan less space saving personal server system
• Plug and play to your home network
• No Monitor, Keyboard or Mouse required
• Patriot PS – Personal Server - ISO Image Distribution• Install on your own x64 PC compatible hardware
• Auto Install and Configure OS Distribution image
• Patriot PS – Personal Server - Open Virtual Appliance Image• Run with free virtualization software – Oracle Virtual Box
• Run with free VMware player or VMware Workstation
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Run Patriot PS Personal Server on Popular Virtualization Software
Virtual Box (Free) https://www.virtualbox.org/
VMware Player (Free for personal use) https://www.vmware.com/products/player
VMware Workstation (paid) https://www.vmware.com/products/workstation
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Virtual Box
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Install Virtual Box and then Import the PPS OVA image
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Reinitialize MAC Address and click Import
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Ensure Network Adapter is set o Bridged Mode
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Start the Patriot PS Personal Server Appliance
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Boot Screen
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Discover from Windows Network Discovery after boot
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Register PPS Config Application and then Sign In
Click on PPS Configuration Application
Click to Register the application
Enter the Evaluation Registration or the
purchased Registration Identifiers and Key
that was sent via e-mail
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Enter Registration Identifier and Registration Key Sent via Email
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PPS Configuration Home page
Sign In with user ID: ppsadmin
Default Password: changeme
Follow Quick Start Guid to Configure key configurations
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Access from Mac OS, iPad, iPhone devices..
• On your Apple laptops/PCs or iOS devices such as
iPhone, or iPad or Windows laptops or PC running
Bonjour service or iTunes software, you can access
the Patriot PS Personal Server home page using the
following URL:
https://pps.local
Or
https://<ipaddress> (ip address is shown on the Virtual Machine Console)
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Import Patriot PS Personal Server Appliance
into
VMware Player
and
VMware Workstation
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Select Open a Virtual Machine from VMware Dashboard
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Select the downloaded PPS-OVA-bXXX.ova OVA Image
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Specify folder name and click Import
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VMware Import
Import process will take a few
minutes
Ensure Network Adpater is set
to Bridged mode
After import, edit memory
setting if required and start the
Virtual Machine
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Boot the Patriot PS Personal Server Virtual Machine
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Discover / Access the Patriot PS Personal Server Home Page
Follow instructions in
Slide 10 - 14
to access the Patriot PS Personal Server
Home Page
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