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About Release 6.2
This site contains documentation for HPE Ezmeral Data Fabric release 6.2 including installation, configuration, administration, and reference content, as well as content for the associated bundled ecosystem components and drivers.
6.2 Installation
This section contains information about installing and upgrading HPE Ezmeral Data Fabric software. It also contains information about how to migrate data and applications from an Apache Hadoop cluster to a HPE Ezmeral Data Fabric cluster.
6.2 Data Fabric
HPE Ezmeral Data Fabric is the industry-leading data platform for AI and analytics that solves enterprise business needs.
6.2 Administration
This section describes how to manage the nodes and services that make up a cluster.
- Administering Users and Clusters
  Lists topics that help manage a data-fabric cluster.
- Administering Nodes
  Provides a synopsis of managing nodes in a cluster.
  - Managing Nodes
    Describes the Nodes page on the Control System.
  - Managing Roles
    Describes how to manage roles on a node.
  - Managing Services
    Synopsis on managing services.
  - Managing Disks
    Provides a brief overview of adding and removing disks from the HPE Ezmeral Data Fabric file system.
    - Viewing the List of Disks
      Explains how to view the disks on a node using either the Control System or the CLI.
    - Setting Up Disks for HPE Ezmeral Data Fabric
      This section describes how to set up disks during the normal installation process. Go to the ReferenceGuide/disksetup.html command page for information about other uses of this command.
    - Adding Disks to file system
      Describes how to add disks using either the Control System or the CLI.
    - Removing Disks from the File System
      Explains how to remove disks using either the Control System or the CLI.
    - Determining the Amount of Free Disk From the Command-Line
      Lists the command to display the amount of free disk space.
    - Tolerating Slow Disks
      Explains how to tune disk response timeouts.
    - Formatting Disks on a Node From the Command-line
      Provides an overview of the disksetup script to format disks from the command line.
    - Handling Disk Failures
      Explains how to handle disk failures.
    - Designating NICs for HPE Ezmeral Data Fabric
      Explains how to assign IP address blocks for HPE Ezmeral Data Fabric.
    - Working with a Logical Volume Manager
      Explains the role and usage of a Logical Volume Manager.
    - Tuning for SSDs
      Lists the parameters to tune for optimal SSD performance.
- Administering Volumes
  This section provide information about how to organize and manage data using volumes, a unique feature of HPE Ezmeral Data Fabric clusters.
- Administering Files and Directories
- Administering Tables
  Administration of the HPE Ezmeral Data Fabric Database is done primarily via the command line (maprcli) or with the Managed Control System (MCS). Regardless of whether the HPE Ezmeral Data Fabric Database table is used for binary files or JSON documents, the same types of commands are used with slightly different parameter options. HPE Ezmeral Data Fabric Database administration is associated with tables, columns and column families, and table regions.
- Administering Streams
- Administering Data Fabric Gateways
  A HPE Ezmeral Data Fabric gateway mediates one-way communication between a source HPE Ezmeral Data Fabric cluster and a destination cluster. You can replicate HPE Ezmeral Data Fabric Database tables (binary and JSON) and HPE Ezmeral Data Fabric Streams streams. HPE Ezmeral Data Fabric gateways also apply updates from JSON tables to their secondary indexes and propagate Change Data Capture (CDC) logs.
- Administering Services
- Monitoring the Cluster
  This section describes how to monitor the health and performance of a MapR cluster.
- Configuring Security
  Describes how to configure security and manage secure clusters.
- Managing Secure Clusters
  Provides procedures that will enable you to use MapR clusters securely.
- Administering the Data Access Gateway
  The HPE Ezmeral Data Fabric Data Access Gateway is a service that acts as a proxy and gateway for translating requests between lightweight client applications and the HPE Ezmeral Data Fabric cluster. This section describes considerations when upgrading the service, how to modify configuration settings, and how to administer and manage the service.
- Planning for High Availability
- Administrator's Reference
  This section contains in-depth reference information for the administrator.
- Troubleshooting Cluster Administration
  Lists the common errors and their solutions.
- Best Practices for Backing Up HPE Ezmeral Data Fabric Information
  Lists the best practices and performance considerations to follow when backing up HPE Ezmeral Data Fabric information.
6.2 Development
This section contains information related to application development for Ezmeral ecosystem components and HPE Ezmeral Data Fabric products, including the file system, Database (Key-Value and JSON), and Event Streams.
Other Docs
This section contains release-independent information, including: Installer documentation, Ecosystem release notes, interoperability matrices, security vulnerabilities, and links to other data-fabric version documentation.
Glossary
Definitions for commonly used terms in MapR Converged Data Platform environments.

Working with a Logical Volume Manager

Explains the role and usage of a Logical Volume Manager.

The Logical Volume Manager creates symbolic links to each logical volume's block device, from a directory path in the form:

/dev/<volume group>/<volume name>

HPE Ezmeral Data Fabric needs the actual block location, which you can find by using the ls -l command to list the symbolic links.

Make sure you have free, unmounted logical volumes for use by HPE Ezmeral Data Fabric:
- Unmount any mounted logical volumes that can be erased and used for HPE Ezmeral Data Fabric.
- Allocate any free space in an existing logical volume group to new logical volumes.
Make a note of the volume group and volume name of each logical volume.
Use ls -l with the volume group and volume name to determine the path of each logical volume's block device. Each logical volume is a symbolic link to a logical block device from a directory path that uses the volume group and volume name:
```
/dev/<volume group>/<volume name>
```
The following example shows output that represents a volume group named mapr containing logical volumes named mapr1, mapr2, mapr3, and mapr4:
```
ls -l /dev/mapr/mapr*
 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 22 Apr 12 21:48 /dev/mapr/mapr1 -> /dev/mapper/mapr-mapr1
 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 22 Apr 12 21:48 /dev/mapr/mapr2 -> /dev/mapper/mapr-mapr2
 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 22 Apr 12 21:48 /dev/mapr/mapr3 -> /dev/mapper/mapr-mapr3
 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 22 Apr 12 21:48 /dev/mapr/mapr4 -> /dev/mapper/mapr-mapr4
```
Create a text file /tmp/disks.txt containing the paths to the block devices for the logical volumes (one path on each line). Example:
```
cat /tmp/disks.txt
 /dev/mapper/mapr-mapr1
 /dev/mapper/mapr-mapr2
 /dev/mapper/mapr-mapr3
 /dev/mapper/mapr-mapr4
```
Pass disks.txt to disksetup.