Introduction

Disk commissioning methods

A physical or virtual station that hosts CLM software requires a specific disk partitioning scheme. You can create the required disk partitions on the station:

Supported file systems

For OS-deployed disk partitions such as /, /home, /tmp, /opt, and /var, the CLM supports ext4 or XFS, with the following exception:

For CLM application partitions such as /opt/nsp and child partitions, ext4 is required, with the following exception:

Additional disk configuration

Regardless of the disk deployment method, each partition created after the OS installation requires the additional configuration described in To configure and mount a CLM disk partition.

Disk-image deployment for CLM

The CLM uses NSP OEM disk images for deploying a RHEL OS instance. Images are available in the following formats:

The following image is available in each format:

Note: RHEL image deployment is authorized only for CLM software installation, and not for the installation of any other Nokia or third-party product.

A RHEL disk image:

qcow2 image deployment

For qcow2 image deployment, see To deploy a RHEL qcow2 disk image.

OVA image deployment

Deploying the CLM on VMWare has the following requirements.

For general OVA image deployment information, see the documentation for your virtualization environment.

Note: For a CLM deployer host or CLM cluster VM deployed using the OVA image, it is strongly recommended that you mount the /opt directory on a separate hard disk that has sufficient capacity to allow for future expansion.