Using installation toolkit

This section describes how to install CES HDFS using the installation toolkit.

Run these steps after the Setup Installing the install toolkit are completed.

The installation toolkit requires two packages to perform the installation for CES HDFS:
  • HDFS Transparency
  • IBM Storage Scale Big Data Analytics Integration Toolkit for HDFS Transparency (Toolkit for HDFS)

The installation toolkit must be run as the root user.

On the installer node, where the self-extracting IBM Storage Scale package resides, the installation toolkit default extraction path starting from IBM Storage Scale 5.1.1.x is /usr/lpp/mmfs/package_code_version/ansible-toolkit. For IBM Storage Scale version earlier than 5.1.1, the default extraction path is /usr/lpp/mmfs/package_code_version/installer.

There are two modes to setup CES HDFS nodes in the centralized file system:
  • Adding CES HDFS nodes into the same GPFS cluster as the centralized file system.
  • If the CES HDFS nodes are separate GPFS cluster from the centralized file system you need to first setup the remote mount configuration. For more information, see the Mounting a remote GPFS file system topic in the IBM Storage Scale: Administration Guide.