To prepare a bare metal server to be a fabric node, you must install some third-party packages.

Prerequisites

  • SELinux should be disabled for all Linux physical hosts.
  • Verify that the user performing the installation has administrative permission to do the following actions, some of which may require sudo permissions:

    • Download and untar the bundle.

    • Run dpkg or rpm commands for installing/uninstalling NSX components.

    • Execute nsxcli command for executing join management plane commands.

  • Verify that the virtualization packages are installed.
    • Redhat, CentOS or Oracle Linux- yum install libvirt-libs
    • Ubuntu - apt-get install libvirt0
    • Oracle Linux - rpm-qa | grep xxx
    • SUSE - zypper install libvirt-libs

Procedure

  • On Ubuntu, run apt-get install <package_name> to install the third-party packages.
    Ubuntu 18.04.2 Ubuntu 16.04 
    traceroute
python-mako
python-netaddr  
python-simplejson  
python-unittest2  
python-yaml  
python-openssl   
dkms  
libvirt0
libelf-dev
python-netifaces
    		 
    libunwind8
libgflags2v5
libgoogle-perftools4
traceroute
python-mako
python-simplejson
python-unittest2
python-yaml
python-netaddr
python-openssl
libboost-filesystem1.58.0
libboost-chrono1.58.0
libgoogle-glog0v5
dkms
libboost-date-time1.58.0
python-protobuf
python-gevent
libsnappy1v5
libleveldb1v5
libboost-program-options1.58.0
libboost-thread1.58.0
libboost-iostreams1.58.0
libvirt0
libelf-dev
python-netifaces
  • On RHEL 8.3 and 8.0, and CentOS 8.3 and 8.0, run yum install to install the third-party packages.
    RHEL 8.3 and 8.0 CentOS 8.3 and 8.0 
    tcpdump
boost-filesystem
python3-pyyaml
boost-iostreams
boost-chrono
python3-mako
python3-netaddr
python3-six
snappy
boost-date-time
c-ares
redhat-lsb-core
wget
net-tools
yum-utils
lsof
libvirt-libs
python3-gevent
libev
python3-greenlet
python3
libbpf
python3-netifaces
network-scripts
    		 
    tcpdump
boost-filesystem
python3-pyyaml
boost-iostreams
boost-chrono
python3-mako
python3-netaddr
python3-six
snappy
boost-date-time
c-ares
redhat-lsb-core
wget
net-tools
yum-utils
lsof
libvirt-libs
python3-gevent
libev
python3-greenlet
python3
libbpf
python3-netifaces
network-scripts
  • On RHEL, CentOS, and Oracle Linux run yum install to install the third-party packages.
    RHEL 7.9, 7.8, 7.7, and 7.6 CentOS 7.9, 7.8, 7.7, and 7.6 Oracle Linux 7.9, 7.8, 7.7, and 7.6 
    tcpdump
boost-filesystem
PyYAML
boost-iostreams
boost-chrono
python-mako
python-netaddr
python-six
gperftools-libs
libunwind
elfutils-libelf-devel
snappy
boost-date-time
c-ares
redhat-lsb-core
wget
net-tools
yum-utils
lsof
python-gevent
libev
python-greenlet
libvirt-libs
python-netifaces
python3
wget
redhat-lsb-core

    tcpdump
boost-filesystem
PyYAML
boost-iostreams
boost-chrono
python-mako
python-netaddr
python-six
gperftools-libs
libunwind
elfutils-libelf-devel
snappy
boost-date-time
c-ares
redhat-lsb-core
wget
net-tools
yum-utils
lsof
python-gevent
libev
python-greenlet
libvirt-libs
python-netifaces
python3
wget
redhat-lsb-core

    tcpdump
boost-filesystem
PyYAML
boost-iostreams
boost-chrono
python-mako
python-netaddr
python-six
gperftools-libs
libunwind
snappy
boost-date-time
c-ares
redhat-lsb-core
wget
net-tools
yum-utils
lsof 
libvirt-libs 
python-netifaces
python-greenlet
libev
python-gevent
python3
  • On SUSE 12 SP3, 12 SP4, and 12 SP5 (starting in NSX-T Data Center 3.2.1), run zypper install <package_name> to install the third-party packages manually. 
    net-tools
tcpdump
python-simplejson
python-netaddr
python-PyYAML
python-six
libunwind
wget
lsof
libcap-progs
libvirt-libs
python-netifaces