Installing NFS for the HPE Data Fabric

Describes how to install the NFS service on a node.

About this task

NOTE
NFSv4 refers to NFS version 4.1.

The following sections describe how to install the NFSv3 server, NFSv4 server, and the NFS client.

Installing the NFSv3 Server

Procedure

Install the NFSv3 server package.
To install, run the following command:
RHEL or CentOS 
yum install mapr-nfs
Ubuntu 
apt-get install mapr-nfs
SLES 
zypper install mapr-nfs
If the NFS server is installed without fileserver on a node, the node will be placed in the /nfsserver topology. If the fileserver is installed at a later time, the node will be moved to the /data topology, which is the default for fileserver nodes.

Installing the NFSv4 Server

About this task

The NFSv4 server can be installed only on Data Fabric 6.1 or later clusters. NFSv4 and NFSv3 servers cannot run on the same node. If you have the NFS client running on an edge node, you can use that client to connect to the Data Fabric NFS server on clusters running either 5.2, where only NFSv3 server can be installed, or 6.1 or later, where NFSv4 or NFSv3 can be installed.

Procedure

  1. On the host where you plan to install the NFSv4 server, download, if necessary, and install the nfs-utils package, if it is already not installed.
  2. Ensure that rpc.statd is running on the node.
    To verify, run the following command: 
    ps -ef| grep rpc.st
    rpcuser 18889 1 0 01:04 ? 00:00:00 /sbin/rpc.statd
    root 27016 6933 0 01:25 pts/0 00:00:00 grep color=auto rpc.st
    If it is not already running, run the following to start it: 
    /sbin/rpc.statd
  3. Install NFSv4 server package.
    To install, run the following command:
    RHEL or CentOS 
    yum install mapr-nfs4server
    Ubuntu 
    apt-get install mapr-nfs4server
    SLES 
    zypper install mapr-nfs4server
    The mapr-nfsganesha package is also installed as a dependency package. If NFS server is installed without fileserver on a node, the node is in the /nfsserver topology. If fileserver is installed at a later time, the node is moved to the /data topology, which is the default for fileserver nodes.
  4. Run the configure.sh utility with the -u and -g options to configure the services to run under user mapr and the group of the mapr user.
    IMPORTANT
    This step is required only if you are configuring NFSv4 server to work with Kerberos.

Installing the NFS Client

Procedure

To install the NFS client, run the following command:
RHEL or CentOS 
sudo yum install nfs-utils
Ubuntu 
sudo apt-get install nfs-common
SLES 
sudo zypper install nfs-client
NOTE
NFSv3 clients cannot connect to the NFSv4 server because the NFSv4 server only supports v4 protocol.