Using the spectrumscale installation toolkit to perform installation tasks: Explanations and examples

Use these explanations and examples of spectrumscale installation toolkit options and tasks to perform installation and deployment.

After you have determined how you want your own system to be configured, and after you have reviewed the spectrumscale command, you can tailor these examples to do the following:

Set up your install node.
Add node and NSD specifications, file system information, and GPFS configuration properties to your cluster definition file, and then install GPFS and configure your cluster according to the information in that file.
Specify environment details, identify which protocols are to be enabled, and define protocol-specific properties in the cluster definition file, and then deploy protocols on your system.

The spectrumscale installation toolkit requires one of the following packages:

python-2.6 or later with argparse
python-2.7

For more information about installation prerequisites, see Software requirements and Installation prerequisites.

The spectrumscale installation toolkit is supported on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.x operating system on x86_64 and ppc64 architectures.

For information about supported operating systems, see IBM Spectrum Scale FAQ in IBM® Knowledge Center.