Preparing the hosts

You must complete the following steps to prepare your physical or virtual hosts for StorageGRID Webscale. Note that you can automate many or all of these steps using standard server configuration frameworks such as Ansible, Puppet, or Chef.

Steps

  1. Installing Linux
    You must install Ubuntu or Debian on all grid hosts. Use the NetApp Interoperability Matrix Tool to get a list of supported versions.
  2. Configuring the host network
    After completing the Linux installation on your hosts, you might need to perform some additional configuration to prepare a set of network interfaces on each host that are suitable for mapping into the StorageGRID Webscale nodes you will deploy later.
  3. Configuring host storage
    You must allocate block storage volumes to each host.
  4. Configuring the Docker storage volume
    Before installing Docker, you might need to format the Docker storage volume and mount it on /var/lib/docker.
  5. Installing Docker
    The StorageGRID Webscale system runs on Ubuntu or Debian as a collection of Docker containers. Before you can install StorageGRID Webscale, you must install Docker.
  6. Installing StorageGRID Webscale host services
    You use the StorageGRID Webscale DEB package to install the StorageGRID Webscale host services.
Parent topic: Planning and preparation
Related concepts
Automating the installation and configuration of the StorageGRID Webscale host service
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August 2019