Installing IBM Spectrum Scale on Linux nodes and deploying protocols

Use this information for installing IBM Spectrum Scale on Linux® nodes and deploying protocols.

Before installing IBM Spectrum Scale, you must review Planning for GPFS and the IBM Spectrum Scale FAQ in IBM® Documentation.

Installing IBM Spectrum Scale without ensuring that the prerequisites listed in Hardware requirements, Software requirements, and Installation prerequisites are satisfied can lead to undesired results.

Note:

CES supports HDFS protocols. CES HDFS follows the same installation methods and prerequisites as the other protocols as documented in this section. For specific information about installing CES HDFS, see Installation under CES HDFS in Big data and analytics support documentation.
For information about installing IBM Spectrum Scale Erasure Code Edition, see IBM Spectrum Scale Erasure Code Edition documentation.

The following methods are available for installing IBM Spectrum Scale on Linux nodes.

Installation method	Description
Installation toolkit	On supported Linux distributions, you can install IBM Spectrum Scale and deploy protocols by using the installation toolkit. For more information, see Installing IBM Spectrum Scale on Linux nodes with the installation toolkit. For information on limitations if you are using the installation toolkit, see Limitations of the installation toolkit.
Manual	You can install the IBM Spectrum Scale packages manually by using commands such as rpm or yum on Red Hat Enterprise Linux, rpm or zypper on SLES, and dpkg or apt on Ubuntu Linux. For more information, see Manually installing the IBM Spectrum Scale software packages on Linux nodes.

Installation method

Description

Installation toolkit

On supported Linux distributions, you can install IBM Spectrum Scale and deploy protocols by using the installation toolkit.

For more information, see Installing IBM Spectrum Scale on Linux nodes with the installation toolkit.

For information on limitations if you are using the installation toolkit, see Limitations of the installation toolkit.

Manual

You can install the IBM Spectrum Scale packages manually by using commands such as rpm or yum on Red Hat Enterprise Linux, rpm or zypper on SLES, and dpkg or apt on Ubuntu Linux.

For more information, see Manually installing the IBM Spectrum Scale software packages on Linux nodes.