Run Vantage Express

• Navigate to the directory where you downloaded Vantage Express and double-click the .ova file to launch the VM image in VMware Workstation Pro.

• Press [ENTER] to select the highlighted LINUX boot partition.

• On the next screen, press ENTER again to select the default SUSE Linux kernel.

• Once the VM is up, you will see its desktop environment. When prompted for a username and password, enter root for both.

• The database is configured to autostart with the VM. To confirm that the database has started, go to the virtual desktop and start a terminal.

• In the terminal, execute the pdestate command to check if Vantage has already started:

pdestate -a

Wait until you see the following message:

PDE state is RUN/STARTED.
DBS state is 5: Logons are enabled - The system is quiescent

PDE state is DOWN/HARDSTOP.

PDE state is START/NETCONFIG.

PDE state is START/GDOSYNC.

PDE state is START/TVSASTART.

PDE state is START/READY.
PDE state is RUN/STARTED.

DBS state is 1/1: DBS Startup - Initializing DBS Vprocs
PDE state is RUN/STARTED.

DBS state is 1/5: DBS Startup - Voting for Transaction Recovery
PDE state is RUN/STARTED.

DBS state is 1/4: DBS Startup - Starting PE Partitions
PDE state is RUN/STARTED.

• Now that the database is up, you can log in to it:
• At the shell prompt, type bteq.
• At the logon prompt, type .logon 127.0.0.1/dbc.
• At the password prompt, type dbc.
  • If successful, the Basic Teradata Query (BTEQ) session confirms that you are logged into BTEQ.

• Run the SQL test script by typing the following:

  select * from dbc.dbcinfo;
  

• A successful test returns: *** Query completed.