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Oracle recommends that you upgrade to a current supported release.

1.2 Enabling Access to the Ceph Packages

The ceph-deploy package is available on Oracle Yum in the ol7_ceph channel or on ULN in the ol7_x86_64_ceph channel, however dependencies are scattered across some other channels as well and these must be enabled on each system where the Storage Cluster is deployed. On the Oracle Linux yum server, you must also enable the ol7_addons, ol7_latest and ol7_optional_latest channels. Alternatively, if you are using ULN, you must enable the ol7_x86_64_addons, ol7_x86_64_latest and ol7_x86_64_optional_latest channels.

Caution

Do not enable access to the latest repositories on both the Oracle Linux yum server and ULN.

If you are registered to use ULN, use the ULN web interface to subscribe the system to the appropriate channels:

  1. Log in to https://linux.oracle.com with your ULN user name and password.

  2. On the Systems tab, click the link named for the system in the list of registered machines.

  3. On the System Details page, click Manage Subscriptions.

  4. On the System Summary page, select each required channel from the list of available channels and click the right arrow to move the channel to the list of subscribed channels.

    Subscribe the system to the ol7_x86_64_ceph, ol7_x86_64_addons, ol7_x86_64_latest, and ol7_x86_64_optional_latest channels.

  5. Click Save Subscriptions.

To enable the required channels using the Oracle Linux yum server,

ensure that your system is up to date and that you have transitioned to use the modular yum repository configuration by installing the oraclelinux-release-el7 package and running the /usr/bin/ol_yum_configure.sh script.

# yum install oraclelinux-release-el7
# /usr/bin/ol_yum_configure.sh

Install the oracle-ceph-release-el7 release package to install appropriate yum repository configuration.

# yum install oracle-ceph-release-el7

Enable the following repositories:

  • ol7_ceph

  • ol7_addons

  • ol7_latest

  • ol7_optional_latest

Use the yum-config-manager tool to update your yum configuration:

# yum-config-manager --enable ol7_ceph ol7_latest ol7_optional_latest ol7_addons

You can now prepare the Storage Cluster nodes for Ceph installation. See Section 1.3, “Installing and Configuring a Ceph Storage Cluster”.