Caringo: Install

Caringo CSN

The Swarm CSN is an integrated services software application that centralizes the services and management information needed to install, upgrade, and monitor a Swarm storage cluster onto a single, accessible server with shared configuration. Installed on a dedicated node, CSN simplifies the network services and Caringo product installation process for administrators who are not proficient in Linux-based products or for environments where the network services are not easily available.

Note The CSN cannot anticipate all possible desired configurations. As a result, it may not provide administrators as much flexibility compared to manually configuring the network services.

The Swarm CSN infrastructure is comprised of the following components: • Required network services. These services are configured to support a Swarm cluster, which include DHCP, PXE/Network Boot, TFTP, Syslog, and NTP. • Integrated PXE network boot and configuration server. For Swarm nodes booted onto the Swarm CSN's internal network. • SNMP MIBs. Provides operational and status information for all nodes in the associated Swarm cluster. • Swarm and SCSP Proxy. These integrated components are installed and configured for you. • Administrative web console. Provides configuration of some settings and parameters, as well as access to useful utilities such as updating Swarm software versions and backup and restoring configuration files.

The following illustration provides a logical view of the CSN infrastructure. In a dual network CSN, the primary storage cluster is isolated on a private network. On a single network CSN, the primary storage cluster is directly addressable.

Installing CSN

Since we wanted to test and demo Caringo, the CSN platform seems like a great way to get much quicker results, at this stage i am not sure of limitations or why you would not do it this way....

Downloaded Caringo CSN 8.2 from: https://connect.caringo.com (Matt H has login details), Alternatively i have put the installation files on storage1

Caringo installation documentation is included in the CSN zip.

CSN can do a single or dual network configuration but dual seems like a smart play since it uses PXE/DHCP/TFTP etc to deploy future storage nodes, which you would not want on a open network conflicting with current services.

So i got a system with at least 5 hot swap bays (1 os drive, 4 storage slots), IPMI, dual 1Gbe, dual cpu and ram.

Then installed up with Centos 6.8 basic server final (this is specified within the Caringo documentation as required..)

Once installed setup NIC 0 on 172.28.89.20 (well out side normal ranges on PXE) and NIC 1 on 192.168.0.* since this is a closed network.

Setup and install ntp as its required, pointed to ntp.pool.org and checked that this works.

transfered on the CSN installation files.

Chmod +X caringo-csn-bundle-install.sh

./caringo-csn-bundle-install.sh

at this point it checks it can see all the installation files, installs these through yum and if all good then asks if you want to proceed with CSN network configuration yes/no: