Users Guide

Installing and Configuring HIT/Linux

This chapter guides describes how to install, update, and configure HIT/Linux.

To verify that installation was successful, follow the Verification instructions.

Topics:

• Obtain the Installation Kit

• Installation Prerequisites

• Installation Procedure

• Configuration

• Verification

Obtain the Installation Kit

Obtain the installation kit from the Dell EqualLogic customer support web site.

To download HIT/Linux, you must have a Dell customer support account. To set up an account, go to https://eqlsupport.dell.com.

1. Select Downloads in the navigation bar and select Host Integration Tools for Linux.

2. Under Recommended Host Integration Tools for Linux, select the latest version of the toolkit.

3. Select the Download Page link.

4. Select the link for the current version of the tool kit.

5. Accept the EULA and click the Download button. Save the ISO installation image to a temporary location on your local computer.

6. Return to the Downloads page and select the GPG Key link.

7. Download the GPG Key (RPM-GPG-KEY-DELLEQL) and save it to a temporary location on your local computer. The installation

requires a public key to authorize your RPM signature and run the installation.

Installation Prerequisites

A successful installation depends on several prerequisites, which include:

• Using supported Linux Distributions

• Running supported versions of PS Series array firmware

• Access to a public key used for installing the RPMs

• All prerequisite Linux packages are available

• When installing or upgrading HIT/Linux, existing EqualLogic volumes to which the host is connected must be online and healthy. If

installing on a cluster, ensure the cluster nodes and shared storage are online.

• Your configuration has multiple NICs that are on the same subnet (recommended by Dell for improved performance and higher

throughput).

The installation software takes certain actions to ensure your environment is ready for using the product. Atypical installations might

require you to change certain defaults prior to installing the kit. Particular cases mentioned in this chapter refer to solutions provided in the

Troubleshooting section.

Verify that the prerequisites in the following sections are met before installing the kit.

Installation Script and RPMs

HIT/Linux is packaged as an ISO image, equallogic-host-tools-version.iso. This image contains all necessary user-mode and

kernel-mode RPM files and an installation script for your particular Linux distribution.

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