Quickstart Guide
Installation and Deployments
4 min
the belden horizon data operations operating system can be deployed in several ways belden horizon data operations deployment models the most common installation scenarios are installation on a physical hardware device such as an ipc (industrial pc) installation as a vm (virtual machine) you can install as a vm using the following virtual environments oracle virtualbox vmware esxi vmware workstation player qemu emulator kvm windows hyper v to determine the best approach for installation, you must first establish how belden horizon data operations is to be used collect data for an asset or line base if belden horizon data operations is used to collect data on an asset or line base, the most common form of deployment is an installation on a physical device such as an ipc (industrial pc) device the ipc is installed close to the asset or line, often within the same cabinet as the data source, such as a plc (programmable logic controller), cnc (computer numerical control), robotic system, or dcs (distributed control system) it is connected through one of its network cards to the vlan of the asset or line the second network card connects the device to the plant ot (operational technology) network and allows for access using the web ui (user interface) collect data for a section or plant if belden horizon data operations is used to collect data for a section or plant level that includes several lines or assets, the choice may be to deploy it as a virtual system this is usually done using managed virtual environments such as vmware esxi the virtual machine runs inside the virtualized environment and connects to the data sources through the plant ot network this requires that routing allows the vm to reach every data source located within isolated vlans development system the installation as virtual machine using oracle virtualbox is another option this is usually a development system for example, in a pov (proof of value) project, or where many stakeholders test the system and it is not feasible to provide a physical device to everyone mixed installation it is also possible to use a mixed installation this combines the deployment of physical devices on an asset or line basis and the deployment of a virtualized system as a consolidation layer see docid 0g1uil9h2qolyrg0 lw5d and docid pzewxmj2ycpk5joxgf3p for more information next steps docid\ sei42mzx1rhrf1faxyzed docid\ w8whr1qjn brsj2agrdgh docid\ qfnv85adpnotij60gpcga docid 9cqyggqk7yqzole5qyctr docid\ w5dt4ejwypxbypue0iifr docid\ edjrrrsbf4paxdp7fxdc