Using the installation toolkit to perform installation tasks: Explanations and examples

Use these explanations and examples of installation toolkit options and tasks to perform installation and deployment by using the installation toolkit.

Note: CES supports HDFS protocols. For installing CES HDFS, the same prerequisites are applicable as for the other protocols as documented in Preparing to use the installation toolkit and this section. For specific information about installing CES HDFS, see Installation under CES HDFS in Big data and analytics support documentation.

After determining how you want your system to be configured, and after you have reviewed the spectrumscale command, you can tailor these examples to do the following tasks:

Set up your installer node.
Add node and NSD specifications, file system information, and configuration properties to your cluster definition file, and then install IBM Storage Scale and configure your cluster according to the information in that file.
Specify environment details, identify which protocols are to be enabled, and define protocol-specific properties in the cluster definition file, and then deploy protocols on your system.

For information on using the installation toolkit for the installation and the deployment of protocol and client nodes in a cluster containing ESS, see ESS awareness with the installation toolkit.

Before using the installation toolkit for installation and deployment, ensure that the preparatory steps are completed. For more information, see Preparing to use the installation toolkit.

Using the installation toolkit to perform installation and deployment involves doing these tasks.

For more installation toolkit related information, see the following topics.