System requirements
It is recommended to use a dedicated Linux system for SPPMON workloads. Sharing systems dedicated to IBM Spectrum Protect Plus is not recommended.
Hard & software requirements:
- Operating System: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6 or CentOS 7.6 and later release level
- CPU: 4 core / 64 bit architecture
- Memory: 16 GB RAM
- Hard disk: 100 GB (System), 100 GB (Data)
The required disk space for the InfluxDB is estimated based on experience with one Spectrum Protect Plus server instance with a combined workload of VM, Applications, daily catalog backups, replication, and additional protection.
Those numbers are upper-bound estimates to make sure no increase is required after an update. Please be aware the VMCount is just an example to allow some classification and should not be used as the only measurement for the categorization.
| Category | VMCount | First Year (0-1) | Per Year (1+) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Loaded | 1000-4000 | 2 GB | 1 GB |
| Mixed | 100-1500 | 1 GB | 500 MB |
| Minor/Passive | 0-100 | 200 MB | 100 MB |
With approximately 3000VMs and a high frequency of SLA executions, the storage consumption of InfluxDB should not grow beyond 2 GB in the first year. In subsequent years of monitoring, we expect a decrease of storage consumption to 1 GB due to InfluxDB housekeeping, etc.
Note: There are no specific requirements related to Linux distributions and versions. The sample implementation is below is for reference and is built on a virtual machine running Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.7.
Two HDDs are created as thin provisioned volumes, one for the operating system and programs and one to store the InfluxDB data directory on a dedicated filesystem
cat /etc/os-release
NAME="Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server"
VERSION="7.7 (Maipo)"
ID="rhel"
ID_LIKE="fedora"
VARIANT="Server"
VARIANT_ID="server"
VERSION_ID="7.7"
PRETTY_NAME="Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 7.7 (Maipo)"
[root@sppmon ~]# df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
devtmpfs 3.9G 0 3.9G 0% /dev
tmpfs 3.9G 0 3.9G 0% /dev/shm
tmpfs 3.9G 8.9M 3.9G 1% /run
tmpfs 3.9G 0 3.9G 0% /sys/fs/cgroup
/dev/sda2 16G 1.2G 15G 8% /
/dev/sdb2 7.0G 33M 7.0G 1% /home
/dev/sdb1 30G 33M 30G 1% /influxDB
/dev/sda1 1014M 141M 874M 14% /boot
tmpfs 783M 0 783M 0% /run/user/0
>cat /etc/yum.repos.d/RHEL-7.7.repo
[RHEL-7.7]
baseurl = http://repoIP/yum/RHEL-7.7
enabled = 1
gpgcheck = 1
gpgkey = file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-redhat-release
name = RHEL-7.7 Server.x86_64
Please continue with cloning the source code of SPPMon. Afterward, you may start the installation via one of the three install methods.