Preparing the environment

This section describes how to prepare the environment to install Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP®), IBM Spectrum Scale Ambari management pack, and HDFS Transparency on IBM Spectrum Scale.

The IBM Spectrum Scale Ambari management pack can be used for Ambari 2.7 for Hortonworks HDP to setup the IBM Spectrum Scale Service.

HDP requires specific version combinations for the Ambari, Mpack and HDFS Transparency. The IBM Spectrum Scale file system is independent of the versioning for HDP, Mpack and HDFS Transparency. Hortonworks has been certified to work with IBM Spectrum Scale 4.2.3 and later.