HP vertica installation

digilb · October 2017

Hi Team,

I like to know what is the exact version of HP vertica community edition will suit for cento 7.1 OS.

Note : I'm facing below issue when i tried to complete installation with vertica 8.1 in Cento 7.1

FAIL (S0020): https://my.vertica.com/docs/8.1.x/HTML/index.htm#cshid=S0020
Readahead size of xvda (/dev/xvda1) is too low for typical systems: 256
< 2048
FAIL (S0180): https://my.vertica.com/docs/8.1.x/HTML/index.htm#cshid=S0180
Insufficient swap size. Need 2.00 GB, have 0.00 GB
FAIL (S0321): https://my.vertica.com/docs/8.1.x/HTML/index.htm#cshid=S0321
RHEL/Centos 7.1, 7.2 not supported, please use RHEL/Centos 7.3 or later

System prerequisites failed. Threshold = WARN
Hint: Fix above failures or use --failure-threshold

Installation FAILED with errors.

Jim_Knicely · October 2017

Hi,

Check this link for the supported "Supported Operating Systems and Operating System Versions" for Vertica 8.1.x:

https://my.vertica.com/docs/8.1.x/HTML/index.htm#Authoring/SupportedPlatforms/MCandServer.htm

Note that CentOS 7.1 isn't one of 'em.

Also, each of the failures listed by the installer includes a link to the Vertica docs on how to fix the cause of the failure. Just make the changes suggested by the documentation.

The installer option --failure-threshold can be set to NONE to ignore all errors. However, the database may not start, won't be optimized, and is certainly not supported in production environments!

See:
https://my.vertica.com/docs/8.1.x/HTML/index.htm#Authoring/InstallationGuide/InstallingVertica/RunTheInstallScript.htm?Highlight=--failure-threshold

https://my.vertica.com/docs/8.1.x/HTML/index.htm#Authoring/InstallationGuide/Upgrade/PreUpgrade/RequirementsTesting.htm

[Deleted User] · October 2017

To add to Jim's response, the installer actually checks to the platform release version. So you may be able to fix the readahead and swapsize issues, but the 3rd one regarding 7.1 not being supported will continue to block you. We skipped 7.1 and 7.2 due to issues found that impacted Vertica.

Jim_Knicely · October 2017

Fyi ... The 9.0 installer gives this error with regard to the OS version:

 FAIL (S0321): https://my.vertica.com/docs/9.0.x/HTML/index.htm#cshid=S0321
        RHEL/Centos 7.1, 7.2 not supported, please use RHEL/Centos 7.3 or later

The --failure-threshold will ignore the error and install Vertica anyway. I tried on 7.2:

[dbadmin@kerberized ~]$ cat /etc/centos-release
CentOS Linux release 7.2.1511 (Core)

ScottL · October 2017

interesting that the message says, "RHEL/Centos 7.1, 7.2 not supported, please use RHEL/Centos 7.3** or later**" because the 8.0 and 9.0 documentation both state that 7.3 is the latest version to be supported. We inquired as to whether 7.4 was supported for 8.1 and it is not, so I assume the same stands for 9.0