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-xml:id="installinglustre">
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+ xml:id="installinglustre">
<title xml:id="installinglustre.title">Installing the Lustre Software</title>
<para>This chapter describes how to install the Lustre software from RPM
packages. It includes:</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>
- <xref linkend="dbdoclet.50438261_99193" />
+ <xref linkend="preparing_installation" />
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>For hardware and system requirements and hardware configuration
information, see
<xref linkend="settinguplustresystem" />.</para>
- <section xml:id="dbdoclet.50438261_99193">
+ <section xml:id="preparing_installation">
<title>
<indexterm>
<primary>installing</primary>
<emphasis role="bold">
<emphasis role="italic">Lustre server packages</emphasis>
</emphasis>. The required packages for Lustre 2.9 EL7 servers are
- listed in the table below, where
+ listed in the table below, where
<replaceable>ver</replaceable> refers to the Lustre release and
- kernel version (e.g., 2.9.0-1.el7) and
+ kernel version (e.g., 2.9.0-1.el7) and
<replaceable>arch</replaceable> refers to the processor architecture
(e.g., x86_64). These packages are available in the
<link xl:href="https://wiki.whamcloud.com/display/PUB/Lustre+Releases">
Lustre Releases</link> repository, and may differ depending on
- your distro and version.</para>
+ your distro and version.</para>
<para>
- <table frame="all" xml:id="table_cnh_5m3_gk">
+ <table frame="all" xml:id="table.installed_server_pkg">
<title>Packages Installed on Lustre Servers</title>
<tgroup cols="2">
<colspec colname="c1" colnum="1" colwidth="1.18*" />
<entry>
<code>lustre-tests-<replaceable>ver</replaceable>_lustre.<replaceable>arch</replaceable></code>
</entry>
- <entry>Lustre I/O Kit benchmarking tools
- <emphasis role="italic">(Included in Lustre software as of
- release 2.2)</emphasis></entry>
+ <entry>Scripts and programs used for running regression
+ tests for Lustre, but likely only of interest to
+ Lustre developers or testers.
+ </entry>
</row>
</tbody>
</tgroup>
<link xl:href="https://wiki.whamcloud.com/display/PUB/Lustre+Releases">
Lustre Releases</link> repository.</para>
<para>
- <table frame="all" xml:id="table_j3r_ym3_gk">
+ <table frame="all" xml:id="table.installed_client_pkg">
<title>Packages Installed on Lustre Clients</title>
<tgroup cols="2">
<colspec colname="c1" colnum="1" colwidth="1*" />
see
<xref xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
linkend="understandinglustrenetworking" />.</para>
- <table frame="all" xml:id="table_bkx_dn3_gk">
+ <table frame="all" xml:id="supported_network_types">
<title>Network Types Supported by Lustre LNDs</title>
<tgroup cols="2">
<colspec colname="c1" colnum="1" colwidth="1*" />
<emphasis role="italic">High availability software</emphasis>
</emphasis>. If needed, install third party high-availability
software. For more information, see
- <xref linkend="dbdoclet.50438188_92688" />.</para>
+ <xref linkend="failover_setup" />.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<para>
<emphasis role="italic">(Required)</emphasis>
<emphasis role="italic">
- <emphasis role="bold">Disable Security-Enhanced Linux
- <superscript>*</superscript>(SELinux) on all Lustre servers
- </emphasis>
- </emphasis>The Lustre software does not support SELinux. Therefore,
- the SELinux system extension must be disabled on all Lustre nodes.
- Also, make sure other security extensions (such as the Novell
- AppArmor
- <superscript>*</superscript>security system) and network packet
- filtering tools (such as iptables) do not interfere with the Lustre
- software.</para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- <emphasis role="italic">(Required)</emphasis>
- <emphasis role="italic">
<emphasis role="bold">Use the same user IDs (UID) and group IDs
(GID) on all clients.</emphasis>
</emphasis>If use of supplemental groups is required, see
timestamps. We recommend that you use Network Time Protocol (NTP) to
keep client and server clocks in sync with each other. For more
information about NTP, see:
- <link xl:href="http://www.ntp.org/">http://www.ntp.org</link>.</para>
+ <link xl:href="https://www.ntp.org/">https://www.ntp.org</link>.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ <emphasis role="italic">(Recommended)</emphasis>
+ <emphasis role="italic">
+ <emphasis role="bold">Make sure security extensions</emphasis>
+ </emphasis>
+ (such as the Novell AppArmor <superscript>*</superscript>security
+ system) and
+ <emphasis role="italic">
+ <emphasis role="bold">network packet filtering tools</emphasis>
+ </emphasis>
+ (such as iptables) do not interfere with the Lustre software.</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist></para>
</section>
<listitem>
<para>For software and environmental requirements, see the section
<xref xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
- linkend="dbdoclet.50438261_99193" />above.</para>
+ linkend="preparing_installation" />above.</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</listitem>
<link xl:href="https://wiki.whamcloud.com/display/PUB/Lustre+Releases">
Lustre Releases</link> repository. See
<xref xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
- linkend="table_cnh_5m3_gk" />for a list of required packages.</para>
+ linkend="table.installed_server_pkg" />for a list of required packages.
+ </para>
</listitem>
<listitem xml:id="dbdoclet.50438261_88296">
<para>Install the Lustre server and
<link xl:href="https://wiki.whamcloud.com/display/PUB/Lustre+Releases">
Lustre Releases</link> repository. See
<xref xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
- linkend="table_j3r_ym3_gk" />for a list of required packages.</para>
+ linkend="table.installed_client_pkg" />for a list of required packages.
+ </para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Install the Lustre client packages on all Lustre clients.
<xref linkend="configuringlustre" />.</para>
</section>
</chapter>
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