Installing DataStax Enterprise 6.0 on RHEL-based systems using Yum
Instructions for installing DataStax Enterprise 6.0 using Yum repositories on RHEL-based systems. Root permissions are required.
Instructions for installing DataStax Enterprise (DSE) 6.0 on RHEL-based systems using Yum.
To install on SUSE, use the binary tarball installation.
Some things to know about installing DSE
- The latest version of DataStax Enterprise 6.0 is 6.0.10.
- When installed from a package (Yum or APT), DataStax Enterprise runs as a service. The service initialization script is located in /etc/init.d/dse. Run levels are not set by the package.
- This procedure installs DSE 6.0 and the DataStax Agent. It does not install OpsCenter, DataStax Studio, Graph Loader, or DataStax Bulk Loader.
- When connecting to DSE 6.0 from OpsCenter, use version OpsCenter 6.5; earlier versions are not supported. See DataStax OpsCenter compatibility with DSE.
cassandra
user in the database. Do not use the
cassandra
user in production. Failing to do so is a security
risk. See Adding a superuser login.Prerequisites
- Root or sudo access.
- A supported platform.
- Yum Package Management application.
- Configure your operating system to use the latest version of
Java 8:
- Recommended. The latest build of a Technology Compatibility Kit (TCK)
Certified OpenJDK version 8. For example, OpenJDK
8 (1.8.0_151
minimum).Note: Recommendation changed due to the end of public updates for Oracle JRE/JDK 8. See Oracle Java SE Support Roadmap.
- Supported. Oracle Java SE 8 (JRE or JDK) (1.8.0_151 minimum)
- Recommended. The latest build of a Technology Compatibility Kit (TCK)
Certified OpenJDK version 8. For example, OpenJDK
8 (1.8.0_151
minimum).
- RedHat-compatible distributions require EPEL (Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux).
-
Python 2.7.x
For older RHEL distributions, see Installing Python 2.7 on older RHEL-based package installations.
Hardware requirements
Procedure
In a terminal window:
What's next
- You must change or delete the
cassandra
user created on installation. See Adding a superuser login. - If performing an upgrade, go to the next step in the Upgrade Guide.
- Configuring DataStax Enterprise - Settings for DSE Advanced Security, In-Memory, DSE Advanced Replication, DSE Multi-Instance, DSE Tiered Storage, and more.
-
Configure DSE service startup options. See Starting DataStax Enterprise as a service.
- Default file locations for package installations
- Default file locations for tarball installations
- Changing logging locations after installation.
- Starting and stopping DataStax Enterprise.
- Preparing DataStax Enterprise for production.
- Recommended production settings.
- Planning and testing DSE cluster deployments.
- Configuring the heap dump directory to avoid server crashes.
- DataStax Studio documentation.
- Installing DataStax Enterprise drivers.