Installing GPFS prerequisites
This topic provides details on configuring Windows systems prior to installing GPFS™.
Perform the following steps:
- Configuring Windows
- From here on, all GPFS installation steps must be executed as a special user with Administrator privileges. Further, all GPFS administrative operations (such as creating a cluster and file systems) must also be issued as the same user. This special user will depend on your cluster type. For Windows homogeneous clusters, run GPFS commands as a member of the Domain Admins group or as a domain account that is a member of the local Administrators group. For clusters with both Windows and UNIX nodes, run GPFS commands as root, a special domain user account described in Creating the GPFS administrative account.
- Installing Cygwin
See the IBM Spectrum Scale™ FAQ in IBM® Knowledge Center for
the latest:
- Software recommendations
- Configuration information
For additional requirements when setting up clusters that contain both Windows nodes and AIX® or Linux nodes, see Configuring a mixed Windows and UNIX cluster.