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Rack and stack hardware designated for Swarm, replacing and upgrading as needed. (See Hardware Setup.)
Upgrade firmware to latest versions:
All servers
All disk controllers
All disk drives
Configure networking and switches (see Network Infrastructure), including the following:
VLAN configuration
IGMP snooping disabled (or IGMP querier implemented)
Configure IPMI management.
Provide access for the storage cluster to phone home. (See Cluster Health Report.)
Ensure Verify the servers and base operating systems meet the Swarm system requirements. (See Hardware Requirements for Storage and Hardware Requirements for Elasticsearch Cluster.)
Configure IPMI (remote server management)
Complete licenses and agreements
Obtain any needed storage capacity and capability licenses from DataCore. (See Licensing Swarm.)
A user in the organization must register the Red Hat license and accept the EULA if installing or updating RHEL.
Accept the DataCore EULA.
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Swarm Platform Server is installed and configured first, so that it can install Storage nodes on the designated hardware.
Install Platform Server. (See Legacy Platform Implementation.)
Configure Platform Server to integrate with the environment.
Configure Platform Server to boot the current version of Swarm Storage.
Boot the Storage nodes and configure the cluster-wide settings. (See Configuring Swarm Storage.)
Install the Swarm Storage UI. (See Swarm Storage UI Installation.)
Verify that the storage cluster is operational: read, write, and delete test objects
Optional: Install the open-source components to make use of Swarm's exports to Prometheus. (See Prometheus Node Exporter and Grafana.)
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Install and configure an Elasticsearch cluster on designated hardware, providing the Storage cluster its the search and metrics capabilities.
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