Installation Guide Active Circle Storage System Version 4.5 Active Circle Installation Guide: Active Circle Storage System Version 4.5 Published September 2016 Revision 3.0 Copyright © 2018 Active Circle. All rights reserved. The software described in this document is furnished under a license agreement and may be used only in accordance with the terms of the agreement. No part of this publication may be reproduced, transmitted, transcribed, stored in a retrieval system, or translated into any language or computer language, in any form or by any means — electronic, mechanical, magnetic, optical, chemical, manual, or otherwise — without the prior written permission of Active Circle. The Information in this document is subject to change without notice. Active Circle is a registered trademark of Active Circle SA. All other marks and names mentioned herein may be trademarks of their respective companies. Active Circle S.A. 26, rue du Faubourg Poissonnière 75010 Paris FRANCE Tel: +33 1 34 65 90 29 www.active-circle.com Contents Introduction ............................................................................................................... v Part I. Prerequisites 1. Hardware Requirements ................................................................................ 1 Active Circle Node Server ........................................................................... 1 Peripherals ................................................................................................. 1 Network Requirements ................................................................................ 1 Tape Drives and Libraries ........................................................................... 2 2. Software Requirements ................................................................................. 3 Supported Operating Systems ..................................................................... 3 Disk Space and Partition Considerations ...................................................... 3 System Partitions and Swap Space ..................................................... 3 Active Circle Partitions ........................................................................ 4 Operating System Installation ...................................................................... 5 General Installation Options ................................................................. 5 Required Components ......................................................................... 6 Additional Packages ............................................................................ 7 Operating System Configuration .................................................................. 8 Disabling Services .............................................................................. 8 Network Configuration ....................................................................... 10 Network Protocol Services ................................................................. 11 Modifying the hosts file ...................................................................... 11 Language and Locale ........................................................................ 11 Disabling the Firewall ........................................................................ 11 Disabling SELinux ............................................................................. 12 Verifying NTP synchronization ........................................................... 12 Verification and additional tools ......................................................... 13 File System Configuration .......................................................................... 14 Local and Shared Partitions ............................................................... 14 Formatting Partitions ......................................................................... 14 File System Checking ....................................................................... 16 Mounting Partitions ........................................................................... 16 Part II. Installing the Software 3. Installing in GNU/Linux ............................................................................... 19 Installation File Parameters ....................................................................... 19 Installing the First Node ............................................................................ 20 Installing Additional Nodes ........................................................................ 21 Declaring the Node in the Administration tool ..................................... 21 Running the installation on the second node ....................................... 22 Installing Multiple Nodes on a Single Machine (AML) .................................. 23 Configuring Nodes in a WAN ..................................................................... 24 4. The Active Circle Service ............................................................................ 25 Starting the Active Circle Service ............................................................... 25 Stopping the Active Circle Service ............................................................. 25 Active Circle Service Extension ................................................................. 25 Specifications .................................................................................... 26 Implementation .................................................................................. 26 5. The Administration Tool ............................................................................. 29 Installation Guide iii Installation Guide Part III. Upgrading the Active Circle Software 6. Upgrading Active Circle .............................................................................. 31 Version and Patch Levels .......................................................................... 31 Installing the upgrade ................................................................................ 32 Part IV. Appendices Appendix A. Network bonding ........................................................................ 33 Appendix B. Network Port Ranges ................................................................. 35 Appendix C. Installing the LTFS driver ........................................................... 37 iv Installation Guide Introduction This document provides all the information required for installing and updating the Active Circle storage system. The manual is divided into three parts: • Part 1: Hardware and Software Prerequisites • Part 2: Installing the Software • Part 3: Upgrading the Software The installation package can be downloaded from the Active Circle FTP site. Contact your sales representative for more information. Before proceeding with the installation of the Active Circle software, please read the information provided in the "Prerequisites" part carefully. These chapters contain information essential to the proper configuration of a server prior to installation. For information about the configuration and management of the Active Circle system, please refer to the Active Circle Administration Guide. Installation Guide v vi Chapter 1. Hardware Requirements This chapter describes the hardware required to install the Active Circle system. The hardware requirements for an Active Circle system relate to the server systems where the software is to be installed. Active Circle Node Server An Active Circle Node is any server in your network running the Active Circle software, most often a node in your storage network. The software can be installed on any server running GNU/Linux. The table below lists the minimum hardware requirements for the Active Circle system. Element Configuration Architecture X86 - 32 bits / 64 bits CPU One quad-core processor RAM 32 GB Networking 1-port Gigabit Ethernet – internal network 1-port Gigabit Ethernet – client interface Controllers Dedicated RAID 5 disk controller card, 512 MB Cache (non-volatile) Dedicated Tape Library controller card Disks 8 disks in RAID 5 for the operating system, metadata and cache Remote Access Dedicated interface to enable remote troubleshooting Optical Drive DVD±RW UPS Uninterruptable power supply Peripherals It is important to make sure that the storage peripherals are compatible with the operating system: • You need to install the drivers for all SCSI controllers, Fibre Channel controllers, network controllers, etc. These can be obtained from the manufacturer or from the distributor of the operating system. For SAN devices, you should use the drivers from the manufacturer instead of drivers supplied with the operating system. • If you are using LTFS tape drives, you need to install the LTFS drivers on all the Active Circle nodes which have access to the tape library. For more information, see Appendix C, Installing the LTFS driver. • Verify the Hardware Compatibility List (HCL) of the operating system. These verifications are especially important if you intend to use specific functionality such as hardware partitioning of a drive, virtual network interfaces, Fibre Channel multipathing, etc. Network Requirements Concerning the network configuration, Active Circle recommends the following: Installation Guide 1 Chapter 1. Hardware Requirements • Ethernet 1 Gb/s Full Duplex for a LAN • 2 Mb/s for a WAN connection between sites Where possible, you should provide two network interfaces for each node, each with its own IP configuration. This allows for optimizing the data flow by dividing it in two: • One interface dedicated