Custom installation roadmap
Before you begin your custom installation of or , use the following roadmap to prepare your values for each installation option. You can choose to use the default example values for some or all of the options.
| Options | Example values | Your values | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Select a mount point for the depot (/install) directory. | / | ||
| 2. | Select the location that you
want to install the operating system from. If you choose to install
from an ISO image or mount point, you must enter the ISO image or
mount point path. For example: /iso/rhel/7.x/x86_64/rhel-server-7.x-x86_64-dvd.iso or /iso/rhel/7.x/ppc64le/rhel-server-7.x-ppc64le-dvd.iso. Note: If
the OS is found on more than one ISO image, use the first ISO image
during the installation. After the or installation
is completed, you can add the next ISO image from the management console.
|
CD/DVD drive | ||
| 3. | Specify a provision network interface. | eth0 | ||
| 4. | Specify a public network interface. | eth1 | ||
| 5. | Do you want to enable the public interface firewall (Yes/No) | Yes | ||
| 6. | Do you want to enable NAT forwarding on the management node? (Yes/No) | Yes | ||
| 7. | Enable a BMC network that uses the default provisioning template? | Yes | ||
| 8. | Select one of the following options for creating your BMC networks: | |||
| a. | Create a new network and specify the following options: | Yes | ||
| i. Subnet | 192.168.1.0 | |||
| ii. Subnet mask | 255.255.255.0 | |||
| iii. Gateway IP address | 192.168.1.1 | |||
| iv. IP address range | 192.168.1.3-192.168.1.254 | |||
| b. | Use the public network | - | ||
| c. | Use the provision Network | - | ||
| 9. | Specify the hardware profile
used by your BMC network. Hardware profile, options include: For
an x86 management node:
For a Power management node:
|
IBM_System_x_M4 (on x86) or IBM_PowerNV (on Power) | ||
| 10. | Set the provision network domain name. | private.dns.zone | ||
| 11. | Set a domain name for the public network? (Yes/No) | Yes | ||
| 12. | Set the public domain name. | public.com or FQDN | ||
| 13. | Specify the provisioning compute node IP address range. This is generated based on management node interface. | 10.10.0.3-10.10.0.200 | ||
| 14. | Do you want to provisioning compute nodes with the node discovery method? (Yes/No) | Yes | ||
| 15. | Specify the node discovery IP address range. This is generated based on management node interface. | 10.10.0.201-10.10.0.254 | ||
| 16. | Set the IP addresses of the name servers. | 192.168.1.40,192.168.1.50 | ||
| 17. | Specify the NTP server. | pool.ntp.org | ||
| 18. | Do you want to export the /home directory? (Yes/No) | Yes | ||
| 19. | Set the database administrator password. | pcmdbadm | ||
| 20. | Set the default root password for compute nodes. | Cluster | ||