Install XCP NFS
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If you want to upgrade XCP, delete the current installation and replace it with a new installation of the latest version.
This section details the system requirements and the procedures for the initial setup of XCP on a Linux client and the INI file configuration.
System Requirements
Item | Requirement |
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System |
64-bit Intel or AMD server, minimum 4 cores and 32 GB RAM |
Operating System & Software |
RHEL8. See the IMT for supported operating systems |
Special Requirements |
Network connectivity and root level access to source and destination NFSv3 exports |
Storage |
20 MB of disk space for the XCP binary and at least 50 MB of disk space for the logs that are stored in the /opt/NetApp/xFiles/xcp/ directory |
Supported Protocol Version |
NFSv3 and NFSv4 (ACL only) |
Supported browser (File Analytics only) |
XCP File Analytics supports Google Chrome version 76 and later. See the IMT matrix for all the supported versions of the browser |
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Log in to the Linux machine as the root user and download and install the license:
[root@scspr1980872003 ~]# ls -l total 36188 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 37043983 Oct 5 09:36 NETAPP_XCP_<version>.tgz -rw-------. 1 root root 1994 Sep 4 2019 license
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Untar XCP to extract the tool:
[root@scspr1980872003 ~]# tar -xvf NETAPP_XCP_<version>.tgz [root@scspr1980872003 ~]# ls NETAPP_XCP_<version>.tgz license xcp [root@scspr1980872003 ~]# cd xcp/linux/ [root@scspr1980872003 linux]# ls xcp
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Verify that the
/opt/NetApp/xFiles/xcp
path is available on the system from a previous version of XCP.If
/opt/NetApp/xFiles/xcp
is available, activate the license by using thexcp activate
command and proceed with data migration.If
/opt/NetApp/xFiles/xcp
is not available, the system creates the XCP host configuration directory and files at/opt/NetApp/xFiles/xcp
when you run thexcp activate
command is run for the first time.The
xcp activate
command fails as license is not installed.[root@scspr1980872003 linux]# ./xcp activate (c) 2020 NetApp, Inc. xcp: Host config file not found. Creating sample at '/opt/NetApp/xFiles/xcp/xcp.ini' xcp: ERROR: License file /opt/NetApp/xFiles/xcp/license not found. Register for a license at https://xcp.netapp.com
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Copy the license to
/opt/NetApp/xFiles/xcp/
:[root@scspr1980872003 linux]# cp ~/license /opt/NetApp/xFiles/xcp/
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Verify that the license file was copied to
/opt/NetApp/xFiles/xcp/
:[root@ scspr1980872003 ~]# ls -altr /opt/NetApp/xFiles/xcp/ total 44 drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 17 Oct 1 06:07 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 304 Oct 1 06:07 license drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 6 Oct 1 10:16 xcpfalogs drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 21 Oct 1 10:16 xcplogs -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 110 Oct 5 00:48 xcp.ini drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 83 Oct 5 00:48 . [root@scspr1978802001 ~]#
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Activate XCP:
[root@scspr1980872003 linux]# ./xcp activate XCP <version>; (c) 2020 NetApp, Inc.; XCP already activated