Looking at the pre-req's I see that Docker is a requirement. My environment uses RHEL but Docker isn't supported on RHEL x86 platform. We won't be able to install in this unsupported configuration (using the centOS version for example) so are there any plans to improve on the installation so that we can be in a supported configuration? I think the primary issue is that your software shows that RHEL is supported but has the requirement for Docker which isn't supported on RHEL.
#Data Sense Connector on-prem w/o Internet
molten spire
nocturne tendon
Hi @molten spire,
I had the exact same situation with one of my customers. Got confirmation from our architects that even though RHEL isn't official supported by Docker that we do have multiple customers with dark site BlueXP Connector deployments running RHEL 8.6.
They recommended following this guide - https://bytexd.com/how-to-install-docker-on-rhel/
NOTE: in Redhat 8.6 the firewall.conf has changed. The setting is: FirewallBackend=nftables which is not supported by Docker 19.0. The setting need to be FirewallBackend=iptables. As I heard this issue should be gone with Docker 20.0 as the documentation shows.
If you have further questions I'd recommend reaching out to your account team. Feel free to drop my name, and I can direct them to the architect who helped me out.
@proven rampart FYI
proven rampart
Thanks for the heads up!
molten spire
Thanks @nocturne tendon . Do you know if there are plans to have an officially supported configuration? The workaround looks interesting but we wouldn't be able to implement in our environments using such a configuration.
sly pumice
I deployed successfully on RHEL 8.4. Unfortunately, BlueXP doesn't do much for us (yet) in a 100% on-prem environment (with StorageGRID) so I'm watching for product updates.
pallid nebula
I deployed successfully on RHEL 8.4. Unfortunately, BlueXP doesn't do much for ...
Keep the feedback coming in on what you would want to see with BlueXP to make it more viable for you. We have PM's whom are floating around this Discord.
sly pumice
Keep the feedback coming in on what you would want to see with BlueXP to make it...
- StorageGRID
- Security - single sign-on with an enteprise LDAP/AD
- Security - not connect to the storage array as admin but as the user running BlueXP
- Logging, especially if you don't do #3. RIght now, there's no way to tell who did what if multiple admins have access through the connector
We don't do cloud at all so the on-prem doesn't do much for us yet.
pallid nebula
Thanks Ed! Appreciate the summary. Thanks for getting involved with the community here.
hollow river
This is an officially supported installation procedure: https://docs.netapp.com/us-en/cloud-manager-setup-admin/task-installing-linux.html#verify-host-requirements:~:text=version is available.-,Steps,Copy,-If the http_proxy
molten spire
The issue we have is that the page lists RHEL 8.6 as supported but requires Docker 19.3.1. If you go to the Docker link they provide, you can see that RHEL is only supported on the s390x platform so Docker isn't supported on RHEL8 server running on the x86_64 platform, which is what we use.
sly pumice
It is confusing but Docker on RHEL8.4 x86_64 works for me.