Manually installing the installation toolkit

This section lists the steps for the manual installation of the toolkit.

Note: Ensure that the steps in the Installation prerequisites section are completed before you proceed with the steps listed in this section.
  1. On the nodes designated for CES HDFS, to extract the software, follow the steps in the Preparing to install the GPFS software on Linux® nodes topic in the IBM Storage Scale: Concepts, Planning, and Installation Guide.
  2. To install the packages, follow the steps listed in the Installing IBM Storage Scale packages on Linux systems topic in the IBM Storage Scale: Concepts, Planning, and Installation Guide.
  3. After the GPFS packages are installed, run /usr/lpp/mmfs/bin/mmbuildgpl to build the portability layer on each node.
  4. Install the JAVA openjdk-devel on all the nodes by executing the following command:
    yum install java-1.8.0-openjdk-devel
  5. Export Java™ home in root profile:
    # vi ~/.bashrc
    export JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.8.0-openjdk
    export PATH=$PATH:$JAVA_HOME/bin
    
  6. After the setup is complete, see Installing, followed by Manual installation to install and configure CES HDFS.