Chapter 3: RHEL OS deployment for the NSP

This chapter describes the following:

• NSP RHEL OS installation methods

• RHEL OS requirements for NSP deployment

Overview

NSP RHEL OS deployment

Introduction

To apply a RHEL update to an NSP image-based OS

Manual NSP RHEL OS installation

Overview

Manually installing the RHEL OS for the NSP

Pathway for manual NSP RHEL OS installation

Required RHEL 9 OS packages for NSP container elements

Required RHEL OS packages for ancillary NSP components

RHEL 9 OS packages to remove from NSP container elements

RHEL OS packages to remove from ancillary components

Special OS requirements

Required additional OS packages, NFM-P single-user client or client delegate server

Optional RHEL OS packages

To lock the RHEL OS version

To apply a RHEL update to a manually deployed OS

To apply the RHEL 8 swappiness workaround

To verify the rngd service startup

To enable the NSP crypto-policy function on a manually installed RHEL OS

To set the default Python version

To create the uid 1000 user on a manually installed NSP cluster RHEL OS

To disable the RHEL firewalld service

To set the default umask to 0027

To disable RHEL user namespaces

To prepare DRBD kernel modules for RHEL 9 nodes