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Workspace PowerVC
Created by Guest
Created on May 30, 2016

RELATED IDEAS

PowerVC installation issues

When installing PowerVC the customer found several issues:

1. user/group check
In the prereq script ($INSTALL_DIR/lib/prereq.sh line 355 following) there is hard coded information for user IDs and groups which is not customizable and causes the install script to fail if the numeric IDs are in use.
Reason: installer tries to create users (and groups!) with fixed numeric IDs.
The customer has a company-wide user- and group ID policy based on AD that is not changeable by the local client.

2. DB2 install setting "noexec"
DB2 installation checks for the „noexec“ attribute of a mounted /tmp directory, but not very specific. Since within the customer image there is also a /var/tmp directory with the „noexec“ attribute the simple check fails even if /tmp is executable.

3. DB2 fixed directory for installation (/home/powervcdb)
DB2 installation requires a fixed user („powervcdb“) and a fixed directory for installation (/home/powervcdb); it is not possible to customize these values.
The customer uses with its standard image an automount solution for users. This results in an installer failure since /home is solely as user mountpoint and the installer checks for space in /home as well as trying to create a directory /home/ibm (to check write access for /home/powervcdb creation?)

Idea priority High
  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Jan 25, 2017

    These concerns are primarily addressed by virtue of PowerVC switching from DB2 to MariaDB for its OpenStack database to better align with the open source community.

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     May 31, 2016

    Creating a new RFE based on Community RFE #89182 in product PowerVC.

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