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

Use these explanations and examples of 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 installation toolkit requires the following package:

  • python-2.7
For more information about installation prerequisites, see Software requirements and Installation prerequisites.
The installation toolkit is supported on the following operating systems.
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.0, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, and 7.5 operating systems on the x86_64 architecture.
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.8 operating system on the x86_64 architecture.
  • SLES 12 operating system on the x86_64 architecture.
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.0, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, and 7.5 operating systems on the PPC64 architecture.
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.8 operating system on the PPC64 architecture.
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, and 7.5 operating systems on the PPC64LE architecture.

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

Parent topic: Installing IBM Spectrum Scale on Linux nodes with the installation toolkit