Installing IBM Spectrum Control Base in the shared environment

You can install the IBM® Spectrum Control Base Edition software as a part of Hyper-Scale Manager, a standalone application for storage infrastructure management.

Before you begin

  • Verify that the following communication ports are open to ensure network connectivity between VMware resources, Spectrum Control Base and IBM storage systems:
    • 8440 and 443 (vCenter, vROps and vRO servers). Refer to the installation procedure below for details on opening the 8440 port for the 'iptables'(RHEL 6.x) or 'firewall-cmd' (RHEL 7.x). In addition, Spectrum Control Base must be allowed to bind to port 8440, if Security-Enhanced Linux (SELinux) is enabled.
    • 7778 (XIV, Spectrum Accelerate, FlashSystem A9000/A9000R).
    • 22 (storage systems that run IBM Spectrum Virtualize™).
    • 8452 (DS8000).
  • Verify that the TCP ports 5672 and 4369 are open. These ports are used by the 'rabbitmq' and 'ampq' internal processes, respectively. Refer to the installation procedure below for the port opening procedures.
  • Make sure that the 'ibmsc' user can access the /opt/ibm and /var/log/sc folders.
  • Check that the 'policycoreutils-python' package has been installed for RHEL 6.x.
  • Check that the 'zlib' library has been installed for RHEL 7.x.
  • Check that the 'bzip2' program has been installed for RHEL 6.x and RHEL 7.x.
  • Verify that the 'postgresql' package is not installed on your host. Your server may have a package of 'postgresql' version 8 installed, as a part of operation system distribution. This may result in a conflict with version of the package, installed during the Spectrum Control Base deployment. Use the >> rpm -qa | grep postgres command to search for the 'postgresql' package.
  • A new Linux username – ibmsc – is created during installation to be used for the Spectrum Control Base management operations. You can customize the user ID for ibmsc by adding a Linux user (useradd command in RHEL) prior to the package installation. In this case, create the /home/ibmsc directory before starting the installation process.

Procedure

Download and install Hyper-Scale Manager, according to instructions in the product documentation. Spectrum Control Base is installed automatically together with the other elements of the Hyper-Scale Manager suite.