Installation and setup

Note

Currently the installation and upgrade procedures are performed by the StorPool support team.

Welcome to the StorPool installation and setup guide! Here you can find detailed information on choosing hardware for your cluster, installing StorPool, and performing the initial setup.

Hardware setup

• Hardware requirements
• StorPool capacity planner
• Xeon scalable BIOS & OS tuning
• BIOS configuration via OS tools

Software setup

• Storage devices
• Persistent memory support
• Introduction to network interface helper
• Network interfaces
• Initial iSCSI configuration
• Advanced iSCSI setup

For more information, see:

• The Administration guide provides low-level details on how StorPool functions, and how to get the optimal performance from it.

• The Operations guide provides details on activities related to ensuring StorPool is running well. This includes monitoring, maintenance, and best practices.

• The Reference guide provides details on the command line interface (CLI) tools and the REST API provided by StorPool.

• The StorPool integrations guide provides details on using StorPool with hypervisors and cloud management and orchestration tools.