To prepare a bare metal server to be a fabric node, you must install some third-party packages.
Prerequisites
- Disable SELinux on all Linux physical hosts.
- Disable secure boot on 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:
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Download and untar the bundle.
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Run dpkg or rpm commands for installing/uninstalling NSX components.
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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 20.04 |
Ubuntu 18.04.2 |
Ubuntu 16.04 |
traceroute
python3-mako
python3-netaddr
python3-simplejson
python3-unittest2
python3-yaml
python3-openssl
dkms
libvirt0
libelf-dev
python3-netifaces
ifupdown |
traceroute
python-mako
python-netaddr
python-simplejson
python-unittest2
python-yaml
python-openssl
dkms
libvirt0
libelf-dev
python-netifaces
ifupdown |
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 8.6 (starting with NSX 4.0.1), 8.4, and 8.2, and CentOS 8.4 and 8.2, run yum install to install the third-party packages.
| RHEL 8.6, 8.4 and 8.2 |
CentOS 8.4 and 8.2 |
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
python3-pyOpenSSL
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
python3-pyOpenSSL
network-scripts |
- On Oracle Linux 8.6 (starting with NSX 4.0.1), run yum install to install the third-party packages.
| Oracle 8.6 |
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
python3-pyOpenSSL
network-scripts |
- On RHEL, CentOS, and Oracle Linux run yum install to install the third-party packages.
| RHEL 7.9, 7.7, and 7.6 |
CentOS 7.9, 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 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
