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

This topic explains and provides examples of spectrumscale installation toolkit options and tasks.

After you have determined how you want your own system to be configured, and after you have reviewed the spectrumscale command description in IBM Spectrum Scale: Administration and Programming Reference, you can tailor these examples to do the following:
  • Set up your install node.
  • Add node and NSD specifications, file system information, and GPFS™ configuration properties to your cluster definition file, and then install GPFS 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.
Notes:
  1. The spectrumscale installation toolkit requires one of the following packages:
    • python-2.6 with argparse
    • python-2.7
  2. The spectrumscale installation toolkit supports RHEL 7.0 and 7.1 platforms on x86_64 and ppc64 architectures.
Parent topic: Installing GPFS on Linux nodes