About Release 7.0
This site contains documentation for HPE Ezmeral Data Fabric release 7.0, including installation, configuration, administration, and reference content, as well as content for the associated ecosystem components and drivers.
7.0 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.
- Planning the Cluster
  Describes information and factors used in planning your cluster.
  - Select Services
    This section describes some of the services that can be run on a node.
  - Cluster Design Objectives
    This section describes some of the work that your cluster performs, and identifies key design considerations.
  - Minimum Cluster Size
    All data-fabric production clusters must have a minimum of four data nodes except for HPE Ezmeral Data Fabric Edge.
  - Cluster Hardware
    Describes important hardware-architecture considerations for your cluster.
  - Service Layout in a Cluster
    Provides an overview of segregating services on different nodes.
  - Security Considerations
    Planning for security will help you identify security shortcomings and address them before you go into production.
  - User Accounts
    This section identifies how to organize authorized users of the cluster.
  - Next Step
    After you have a complete cluster plan, you are ready to prepare each node.
- Installing Core and Ecosystem Components
  Describes how to install HPE Ezmeral Data Fabric software and ecosystem components with or without the Installer.
- Installing the HPE Ezmeral Data Fabric File Store
  Describes how to install File Store software with or without the Installer.
- Installing HPE Ezmeral Data Fabric Object Store
  Describes installation of the HPE Ezmeral Data Fabric Object Store software with or without the Installer.
- Installing Kubernetes Interfaces for Data Fabric
  This section describes how to plan for and install the Container Storage Interface (CSI) Storage Plugin and the Kubernetes Interfaces for Data Fabric FlexVolume Driver.
- Upgrading Core or EEP Components
  Depending on your current configuration, you may choose to upgrade the release version (core), ecosystem components, clients, or monitoring components.
- Setting Up Clients and Services
  Describes how to set up and use interfaces to an HPE Ezmeral Data Fabric cluster from a client computer.
- Setting Up the Control System
  Describes how to configure and access the Control System.
- Migrating to the HPE Ezmeral Data Fabric
  Provides instructions for migrating business-critical data and applications from an Apache Hadoop cluster to an HPE Ezmeral Data Fabric cluster.
- Applying a Patch
  You can apply a patch by using the Installer, by using the command line (a manual process), or by using an Installer Stanza.
7.0 Data Fabric
HPE Ezmeral Data Fabric is the industry-leading data platform for AI and analytics that solves enterprise business needs.
7.0 Administration
This section describes how to manage the nodes and services that make up a cluster.
7.0 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.

Security Considerations

Planning for security will help you identify security shortcomings and address them before you go into production.

HPE Ezmeral Data Fabric releases provide security by default. If your cluster is not already secure, the Data Fabric Converged Data Platform supports many different levels of security. For more information, see Getting Started with HPE Ezmeral Data Fabric Security.

Before installing data-fabric software using the published packages, make sure that you have reviewed the list of known vulnerabilities in Security Vulnerabilities. If a vulnerability applies to your release, contact your data-fabric support representative for a fix, and apply the fix immediately, if applicable.

If the cluster you are planning to install must communicate with other clusters, the clusters should have similar security attributes. Mixing secure and nonsecure clusters is not recommended. For more information, see Setting Up Cross-Cluster Security.