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Information about using DataStax Enterprise for Administrators.
DataStax Enterprise release notes cover cluster requirements, upgrade guidance, components, security updates, changes and enhancements, issues, and resolved issues for DataStax Enterprise 5.1.
DataStax Enterprise can be installed in a number of ways, depending on the purpose of the installation, the type of operating system, and the available permissions.
Guidance for choosing the best DataStax Enterprise installation method for your purposes.
DataStax provides several methods for installing DSE from the DataStax Installer.
Lifecycle Manager (LCM) allows you to easily provision, configure, and install DataStax Enterprise clusters.
Instructions for installing DataStax Enterprise 5.1 using Yum repositories on RHEL-based systems.
Instructions for enabling systemd units on RHEL-based and compatible systems.
systemd
Instructions for installing DataStax Enterprise 5.1 using APT repositories on Debian-based systems.
Instructions for installing DataStax Enterprise 5.1 on any supported Linux-based platform.
DataStax provides GUI/Text installers, binary tarballs, and Debian and RHEL packages for installing previous patch releases of DataStax Enterprise 5.1.x.
Instructions for creating DataStax Enterprise (DSE) server, DSE OpsCenter, and DataStax Studio containers using DataStax Docker images in non-production environments.
Information for installing DataStax Enterprise on Google Compute Engine, Microsoft Azure, and Amazon AWS.
Installing the JDK on supported platforms and installing Python 2.7 on older RHEL-based package installations.
Launch the uninstaller in the installation directory to uninstall DataStax Enterprise.
Install the standalone CQLSH tool using a binary tarball on any Linux-based platform.
Default file locations when installing from DataStax Enterprise.
Locations when installing from DataStax Enterprise packages and when using the DataStax Installer with the Services option selected.
Locations when installing from DataStax Enterprise binary tarball and when using the DataStax Installer with the No Services option selected.
Information about configuring DataStax Enterprise, such as recommended production setting, configuration files, snitch configuration, start-up parameters, heap dump settings, using virtual nodes, and more.
Initializing a DataStax Enterprise cluster includes configuring, and choosing how the data is divided across the nodes in the cluster.
DataStax Enterprise 5.1 Security Guide.
Information on using DSE Analytics, DSEFS, DSE Search, DSE Graph, DSE Advanced Replication, DSE In-Memory, DSE Multi-Instance, DSE Tiered Storage and DSE Performance services.
Tools include nodetool, dse commands, dsetool, cfs-stress tool, pre-flight check and yaml_diff tools, and the sstableloader.
DataStax Enterprise operation topics, such as node and datacenter operations, changing replication strategies, configuring compaction and compression, caching, and tuning Bloom filters.
Hardware selection, estimating disk capacity, anti-patterns, cluster testing and more.