Installing DataStax Enterprise on any Linux-based platform or Mac OS X
Install DataStax Enterprise on any Linux-based platform, including 32-bit platforms.
Prerequisites
- DataStax Academy registration email address and password.
- Latest version of Oracle Java SE Runtime Environment 7. See Installing Oracle JDK.
- Java Native Access (JNA) is required for production installations. See Installing the JNA.
- If you are using Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, you must update to JNA 3.4, as described in Installing the JNA on Debian or Ubuntu systems.
- If you are using an older RHEL-based Linux distribution, such as CentOS-5, you may need to replace theSnappy compression/decompression library; see the Release Notes.
Also see Recommended production settings and the DataStax Enterprise Reference Architecture white paper.
The binary tarball runs as a stand-alone process.
Procedure
These steps install DataStax Enterprise. After installing, you must configure and start DataStax Enterprise.
In a terminal window:
Results
DataStax Enterprise is ready for configuration.
What's next
- Set the configuration properties on each node in the cluster for single or multiple data center deployment.
- Configure the heap dump directory to avoid server crashes.
- Start DataStax Enterprise.
- Configuration file locations.