https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/scfc/4.2.2?topic=guide-spectrum-cluster-foundation-community-edition

Version 4.2.2

Quick Start Guide

Last Updated: 2021-03-05

This guide describes a quick and easy way to get up and running with the product.

Product overview

Previously known as IBM Platform Cluster Manager Community Edition, IBM Spectrum Cluster Foundation Community Edition, is a powerful cluster management software that delivers a comprehensive set of functions to help manage hardware and software from the infrastructure level. IBM Spectrum Cluster Foundation Community Edition automates the deployment of the operating system and other software components, and complex activities, such as application cluster creation and maintenance of a system.

Step 1: Available packages

Step 2: Access the software and documentation

Step 3: Evaluate the hardware and system configuration

A IBM Spectrum Cluster Foundation Community Edition environment requires:

• A computing environment that consists of two or more machines
• A management node that has at least one network interface
• Access to the operating system media or image file that is used for installation of the operating system on all nodes in the cluster
• Compute nodes that can be set to boot over network and that use a baseboard management controller (BMC) or have power management

For a full list of hardware requirements, see: http://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SS4RPL_4.2.2/release_notes/hardware_requirements.html

The following operating systems are supported on the management node: RHEL, SLES, CentOS, and Ubuntu. For a full list of supported operating systems and other software requirements, see: http://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SS4RPL_4.2.2/release_notes/supported_software_ce.html

Step 5: Installing the product