To install SnapDrive for UNIX, ensure that you are logged in as a root user. If you are executing this file remotely and the system configuration does not allow you to log in as root, use the su command to become root. If the directory where SnapDrive for UNIX is installed is deleted, there can be problems with starting and stopping the daemon.
Before you begin
- The sg3_utils package must be available on all Linux systems for the SnapDrive for UNIX commands to function properly.
Note: Ensure that sg3_utils and sg3_utils-libs are available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and Oracle Enterprise Linux (OEL) versions. However, the sg3_utils libraries are available in the scsi* package for versions SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 10 or earlier and in the sg3_utils* for versions SLES 11 or later.
- The 32-bit version of glibc must be installed on your system. If the 32-bit version of glibc is missing, SnapDrive for UNIX fails to install in your system.
- When the transport protocol is FCP, the libHBAAPI package or vendor-specific package must be installed to work with SnapDrive for UNIX.
- If the default transport is FCP or iSCSI, and the multipathing type is
nativempio with nolvm configuration, the snap management operation
fails in a SLES environment. Be sure to modify the kpartx udev rules
from _part to p in /etc/udev/rules.d/70-kpartx.rules.
Steps
- Download the software from the NetApp Support Site.
- Navigate to the directory on your Linux host where you have downloaded the software from the NetApp Support Site.
- Enter rpm command to install the software. # rpm -U -v <pathname>/netapp.snapdrive.linux_5_1.rpm
Example
The
rpm command installs the
SnapDrive for UNIX software. It writes installation information to a log file.
# rpm -U -v netapp.snapdrive.linux_5_1.rpm
Preparing packages for installation...
netapp.snapdrive-5.1
- Verify the installation.
Example
The following example uses the
rpm command with the
-qai option to verify the installation. The -
qai option gives you detailed information about the
SnapDrive for UNIX installation package.
# rpm -qai netapp.snapdrive
Name : netapp.snapdrive Relocations: (not relocatable)
Version : 5.1 Vendor: NetApp
Release : 1 Build Date: Friday, 16,May,2009
05:25:49 PM IST
Install Date: Thur 14 Oct 2010 12:02:50 PM IST Build Host: bldsvl205-fe.
eng.netapp.com
Group : Applications Source RPM: netapp
.snapdrive-5.1-1.src.rpm
Size : 30597556 License: netapp
Signature : (none)
Packager : NetApp
URL : http://now.netapp.com/
Summary : SnapDrive for Linux
Description :
SnapDrive is a SAN storage management utility.
It provides an easy to use interface that allows the user to create
snapshots of LVM objects (i.e. volume groups) and restore from those
snapshots. SnapDrive also provides a simple interface to allow for the
provisioning of LUNs for mapping LVM objects to them.
- Complete the setup by configuring SnapDrive for UNIX for the system. Most of this information is set by default; however, you need to specify the following information:
- Login information for the storage system
- AutoSupport settings