You must complete the following steps to prepare your physical or virtual hosts for StorageGRID. Note that you can automate many or all of these steps using standard server configuration frameworks such as Ansible, Puppet, or Chef.
Installing Linux
You must install Red Hat Enterprise Linux or CentOS Linux on all grid hosts. Use the NetApp Interoperability Matrix Tool to get a list of supported versions.
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 nodes you will deploy later.
Installing Docker
The StorageGRID system runs on Red Hat Enterprise Linux or CentOS as a collection of Docker containers. Before you can install StorageGRID, you must install Docker.