Preparing to install the GPFS software on Linux nodes
Follow the steps in this topic in the specified order to install the GPFS software.
This procedure installs GPFS on
one node at a time:
- Accepting the electronic license agreement on Linux nodes
- Extracting the IBM Spectrum Scale software on Linux nodes
- Extracting IBM Spectrum Scale patches (update SLES or Red Hat Enterprise Linux RPMs or Ubuntu Linux packages)
- Installing the IBM Spectrum Scale man pages on Linux nodes
- Deciding whether to install IBM Spectrum Scale and deploy protocols manually or with the installation toolkit
In this step, you can choose to install GPFS and protocols either manually or using the spectrumscale installation toolkit.
- Verifying the IBM Spectrum Scale installation on SLES and Red Hat Enterprise Linux nodes
or
Verifying the IBM Spectrum Scale installation on Ubuntu Linux nodes