Comparing installation methods
IBM® Spectrum Cluster Foundation can be installed using an interactive installer in one of two methods, the quick installation method and the custom installation method. The quick installation method sets up quickly sets up basic options with default options. The custom installation method provides added installation options and enables the administrator to specify additional system configurations.
Below is a complete comparison table of the two installation methods
and the default values provided by the installer.
| Options | Default value | Option included in the Quick installation? (Yes/No) | Option included in the Custom installation? (Yes/No) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Select a mount point for the depot (/install) directory. | / | Yes | Yes |
| Select the location that you want to install the operating system from. | CD/DVD drive | Yes | Yes |
| Specify a provision network interface. | eth0 | Yes | Yes |
| Specify a public network interface. | eth1 | Yes | Yes |
| Do you want to enable a public network connection? | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Do you want to enable the public interface firewall? | Yes | No | Yes |
| Do you want to enable NAT forwarding on the management node? | Yes | No | Yes |
| Enable a BMC network that uses the default provisioning template? | No | Yes | Yes |
Select a BMC network, options include:
|
Create a new network | Yes | Yes |
| If creating a new BMC network, specify a subnet for the BMC network | N/A | Yes | Yes |
| If creating a new BMC network, specify a subnet mask for the BMC network | 255.255.255.0 | Yes | Yes |
| If creating a new BMC network, specify a gateway IP address for the BMC network | N/A | No | Yes |
| If creating a new BMC network, specify an IP address range for the BMC network | 192.168.1.3-192.168.1.254 | Yes | Yes |
Specify the hardware profile used by your BMC
network. Hardware profile, options include:
|
IBM_System_x_M4 | Yes | Yes |
| Set the domain name for the provision network. | private.dns.zone | Yes | Yes |
| Do you want to enable FQDN host names for managed nodes (for example, compute001.private.dns.zone)? | No | Yes | Yes |
| Set the domain name for the public network. | public.com | Yes | Yes |
| Specify the provisioning compute node IP address range. This is generated based on management node interface. | 10.10.0.3-10.10.0.200 | No | Yes |
| Do you want to provisioning compute nodes with the node discovery method? | Yes | No | Yes |
| Specify the node discovery IP address range. This is generated based on management node interface. | 10.10.0.201-10.10.0.254 | No | Yes |
| Set the IP addresses of the name servers. | 192.168.1.40,192.168.1.50 | No | Yes |
| Specify the NTP server. | pool.ntp.org | No | Yes |
| Do you want to export the /home directory? | Yes | No | Yes |
| Set the database administrator password. | pcmdbadm | No | Yes |
| Set the default root password for compute nodes. | Cluster | No | Yes |