Trial partitioning requirements, NSP deployer host and cluster VMs

Trial NSP deployer host partitioning scheme
CAUTION 

CAUTION

Service Disruption

Each disk partition described in this section must be a mounted partition, and not a symbolic link. The use of symbolic links to represent partitions is not supported.

Do not use a symbolic link to represent an NSP partition under any circumstances.

Note: See the NSP Planning Guide for information about the supported disk types.

The following table lists the disk partitions required for the NSP deployer host in a trial NSP deployment.

Table 2-2: Trial partitioning scheme, NSP deployer host

Partition

Content

Size (GBytes)

/

Root

26

/boot

Boot partition

0.5

/home

User home directories

0.5

/tmp

Temporary files

4

/opt

NSP registry, operating data, and software for Kubernetes installer and NSP deployer

275

/var

System data

64

/var/log

System logs

6

/var/log/audit

System audit logs

6

Trial NSP cluster VM partitioning scheme
CAUTION 

CAUTION

Service Disruption

Each disk partition described in this section must be a mounted partition, and not a symbolic link. The use of symbolic links to represent partitions is not supported.

Do not use a symbolic link to represent an NSP partition under any circumstances.

An NSP cluster is deployed as one or more VMs that each use local storage. To facilitate NSP software deployment, each VM has the same partition layout.

The following table lists the disk partitions required for the trial deployment of an NSP cluster VM.

Table 2-3: Trial partitioning scheme, NSP cluster VM

Partition

Content

Size (GBytes)

/

Root

30

/home

User home directories

0.5

/tmp

Temporary files

6

/var

System data

64

/var/log

System logs

6

/var/log/audit

System audit logs

6

/opt

NSP software, operating data, backups

200