Installing QuadStor SAN with CentOS

Introduction Installing the free version of Quadstor that has Vmware VAAI support.

Introduction

Installing the free version of Quadstor that has Vmware VAAI support.

Steps (8 total)

1

Install CentOS 6.6 minimal x64 version

Install CentOS using the x64-86 minimal ISO. Install to a 30 Gb partition

2

Configure network with fixed IP / Vlans or what you need

Do this during install of CentOS. This so that the network comes up after install.

After install of the base OS install nano by 'yum install nano'

You edit the network interface via 'nano /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0' (assuming its ETH0 your configuring as your mgmt interface)
Then change NM_CONTROLLED=yes to NM_CONTROLLED=no.

if you havent done so already now its time to give the machine a fixed IP adress.

Change the line BOOTPROTO in above ifcfg-eth0 file so that it reads =static

Then insert

IPADDR=<YOUR IP>
NETMASK=<YOUR SUBNETMASK>
GATEWAY=<YOURDEFGW>

Save that file and change the resolvers (DNS).

nano /etc/resolv.conf

Then check the networks file (nano /etc/sysconfig/network) that it looks like

NETWORKING=yes
HOSTNAME=<yourFQDN>

and finally restart networking

/etc/init.d/network restart

3

After install of base OS

First update the OS by
yum update -y

Then install a couple of packages.

yum install -y openssh openssh-clients openssh-server httpd gcc perl kernel-devel sg3_utils policycoreutils-python net-snmp wget

4

If you prefer then disable firewall all together

service iptables save
service iptables stop
chkconfig iptables off

5

Configure SNMP supportpackages

mv /etc/snmp/snmpd.conf /etc/snmp/snmpd.conf.old
nano /etc/snmp/snmpd.conf

Insert something like this into the SNMPD.Conf file, but based on your environment.
rocommunity public xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
syslocation "HYD, UM DataCenter"
syscontact surya@unixmantra.com

After that startup the SNMP deamon

/etc/init.d/snmpd start
chkconfig snmpd on

6

Configure HTTP deamon

nano /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf (edit "Listen" ipadress & "ServerName")

/sbin/chkconfig --add httpd
/sbin/chkconfig httpd on

7

Download latest opensource Quadstor

Find latest version on http://www.quadstor.com/storage-virtualization-source-install.html then

wget <latest version url>

i'e wget http://www.quadstor.com/virtsrc/quadstorvirt-3.0.78.tgz

8

Install QuadStor

mkdir /qinstall

tar xvzfm quadstorvirt-3.0.78.tgz -C /qinstall/

cd /qinstall/quadstor/
./installworld rhel6

Reboot your system by 'shutdown -r now'

Conclusion

FC Access configure

/quadstor/bin/fcconfig -a -r allow

Done

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Upgrade

/etc/rc.d/init.d/quadstor stop

cd /qinstall/quadstor/
./uninstallworld rhel6

rm -rf /qinstall/quadstor

tar xvzfm /qinstall/quadstorvirt-3.0.78.tgz -C /qinstall/

cd /qinstall/quadstor/
./installworld rhel6

yum -y update

reboot

References

• QuadStor