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Rack and stack hardware designated for Swarm, replacing and upgrading as needed. (See Hardware Setup)
Upgrade firmware to the 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 Health Data to Support)
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 it that the platform server can install Storage nodes on the designated hardware.
Install Platform Server. (See Legacy Platform Implementation SCS Installation)
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 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 with the search and metrics capabilities.
Base install the chosen operating system (RHEL/Centos 7.9CentOS 7 or RHEL/Rocky Linux 8).
Install Elasticsearch nodes on designated hardware. (See Elasticsearch Implementation)
Configure Elasticsearch based on DataCore recommendations. (See Configuring Elasticsearch)
Create a Search feed to populate the Elasticsearch metadata index. (See Managing Feeds)
Configure Elasticsearch Curator and Swarm Metrics. (See /wiki/spaces/DOCS/pages/2443810001)
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Base install the chosen operating system (RHEL/Centos 7.9CentOS 7 or RHEL/Rocky Linux 8).
Install the Content Gateway. See Content Gateway Implementation
Install the Content UI. See Content UI Installation
Configure basic gateway setup for verification and initialization of primary domain. See Gateway Configuration and Configuring Swarm Storage for Gateway
Verify the Gateway is operational: read, write, and delete test objects using the Content UI, S3, and SCSP.
Create the initial domains, with policy definitions. See Gateway Access Control Policies
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