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SSA (Storage Software Appliance) @ CERN

Storage Software Appliance packages are provided here for TEST PURPOSE ONLY. These packages can be installed on top of an existing SLC6 i386/x86_64 installation.

(information about SSA (Storage Software Appliance) on Red Hat site)

Please note that ONLY support we provide for SSA packages is related to installation / packaging problems. This product is provided AS-IS - without support.

For everything else, please read the documentation.

Documentation

SSA 3.2 documentation - local copy

Full SSA documentation on Red Hat site

The SSA documentation can be found here.

Installation

Edit the /etc/yum.repos.d/slc6-ssa.repo file and insert following information in:

[slc6-ssa]
name=SSA - Storage Software Appliance repository
baseurl=http://linuxsoft.cern.ch/cern/ssa/3.2/slc6X/$basearch/yum/ssa/
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-cern
gpgcheck=1
enabled=1
protect=1

To install the SSA run:

yum install glusterfs-fuse glusterfs-core ( glusterfs-rdma ) ( glusterfs-geo-replication ) iperf appliance-base

Also available: Amazon Machine Image (AMI) - Virtual Storage Appliance (VSA) for Amazon Web Service - see documentation here.

To install VSA/AMI run:

yum install glusterfs-fuse glusterfs-core ( glusterfs-rdma ) ( glusterfs-geo-replication ) iperf appliance-base appliance-ami