Installing and Upgrading LightDB-A

Information about installing, configuring, and upgrading LightDB-A Database software and configuring LightDB-A Database host machines.

• Platform Requirements
  This topic describes the LightDB-A Database 6 platform and operating system software requirements.
• Estimating Storage Capacity
  To estimate how much data your LightDB-A Database system can accommodate, use these measurements as guidelines. Also keep in mind that you may want to have extra space for landing backup files and data load files on each segment host.
• Configuring Your Systems
  Describes how to prepare your operating system environment for LightDB-A Database software installation.
• Installing the LightDB-A Database Software
  Describes how to install the LightDB-A Database software binaries on all of the hosts that will comprise your LightDB-A Database system, how to enable passwordless SSH for the gpadmin user, and how to verify the installation.
• Creating the Data Storage Areas
  Describes how to create the directory locations where LightDB-A Database data is stored for each coordinator, standby, and segment instance.
• Validating Your Systems
  Validate your hardware and network performance.
• Initializing a LightDB-A Database System
  Describes how to initialize a LightDB-A Database database system.
• Installing Optional Extensions (VMware LightDB-A)
  Information about installing optional VMware LightDB-A Database extensions and packages, such as the Procedural Language extensions and the Python and R Data Science Packages.
• Installing Additional Supplied Modules
  The LightDB-A Database distribution includes several PostgreSQL- and LightDB-A-sourced contrib modules that you have the option to install.
• Configuring Timezone and Localization Settings
  Describes the available timezone and localization features of LightDB-A Database.
• Upgrading to LightDB-A 6
  This topic identifies the upgrade paths for upgrading a LightDB-A Database 6.x release to a newer 6.x release. The topic also describes the migration paths for migrating VMware LightDB-A Database 4.x or 5.x data to LightDB-A Database 6.x.
• Enabling iptables (Optional)
  On Linux systems, you can configure and enable the iptables firewall to work with LightDB-A Database.
• Installation Management Utilities
  References for the command-line management utilities used to install and initialize a LightDB-A Database system.
• LightDB-A Environment Variables
  Reference of the environment variables to set for LightDB-A Database.
• Example Ansible Playbook
  A sample Ansible playbook to install a LightDB-A Database software release onto the hosts that will comprise a LightDB-A Database system.