Unattended DataStax Enterprise 4.8 installer
Install DataStax Enterprise using the command line or properties file.
For other product installations, see Installing OpsCenter and Installing DevCenter.
Important: DataStax Enterprise 4.8 uses Cassandra 2.1
and CQL3.1.
Prerequisites
- Be sure your platform is supported.
- Root or sudo access when installing as a system service, or if installing missing system dependencies.
- Latest version of Oracle Java SE Runtime Environment 7 or
8 or OpenJDK 7 is recommended. Note: If using Oracle Java 7, you must use at least 1.7.0_25. If using Oracle Java 8, you must use at least 1.8.0_40. In some cases, using JDK 1.8 causes minor performance degradation compared to JDK 1.7.
- RedHat-compatible distributions require EPEL (Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux). For RHEL 5.x, see Installing EPEL on RHEL OS 5.x.
- If installing on a 64-bit Oracle Linux distribution, first install the 32-bit versions of glibc libraries.
- Python 2.6 (minimum); 2.7 (recommended).
Also see Recommended production settings and the DataStax Enterprise Reference Architecture white paper.
Requirement | Minimum | Production |
---|---|---|
CPUs | 2 | 16 |
Memory | 8 GB | 24 GB |
Data directory | 20 GB | 200 GB |
Commit log directory | 20 GB | 200 GB |
Saved caches directory | 20 GB | 200 GB |
Logs directory | 20 GB | 200 GB |
Production requirements depend on the volume of data and workload. |
Procedure
From a terminal window:
Note: In the following commands, be sure to change X to an actual
version number. To view the available versions, see the
Release notes. The latest version of DataStax Enterprise 4.8 is 4.8.16.
Results
DataStax Enterprise is ready for additional configuration.