Configure servers

This topic describes the hardware and software requirements for configuring servers.

Prepare the operating system

Prepare your operation system as required by the following table.

Note

Be sure to configure the network and software manager (Yum or Zypper) for the operating system.

Configure BIOS settings

Configure the following special settings:

• Disable non-uniform memory access (NUMA) for Intel.

• Enable NUMA for Hygon, AMD, Kunpeng, and Arm.

Disable the following BIOS options:

• C-State

• P-State

• EIST

• Power saving

• Turbo mode

Enable the following BIOS options:

• Automatic Power on After Power Loss: Always on

• Intel Virtualization Technology: on

• SOL Console Redirection: on

• Hyper-Threading: on

• Hardware prefetcher: on

• VT-d: on

• SR-IOV: on

• Energy Performance: Maximum Performance

Note

The method for configuring BIOS settings varies from server to server. For details, see the operation manual of your server.

Mount disks

• Mount disks for an OceanBase Cloud Platform (OCP) server as required by the following table.

  Mounting point	Size	Description	Disk format
  /home	100 GB to 300 GB	Operation log disk for OCP components	ext4 (recommended)
  /data/log1	3 to 4 times the memory size	OCP MetaDB log disk	ext4 (recommended)
  /data/1	Depends on the size of data to be stored	OCP MetaDB data disk	ext4 (recommended). If the data size is greater than 16 TB, XFS is recommended.
  /docker	200 GB to 500 GB	Docker root directory	ext4 (recommended)

• Mount disks for an OBServer as required by the following table.

  Mounting point	Size	Description	File system format
  /home	100 GB to 300 GB	OBServer operation log disk	ext4 (recommended)
  /data/log1	3 to 4 times the memory size	OBServer log disk	ext4 (recommended)
  /data/1	Depends on the size of data to be stored	OBServer data disk	ext4 (recommended). If the data size is greater than 16 TB, XFS is recommended.

• Mount disks for an OceanBase Migration Service (OMS) server as required by the following table.

  Mounting point	Size	Description	File system format
  /data/oms	About 400 GB (Depends on the size of synchronization objects, the number of synchronization tasks, the frequency of DML operations on the synchronization objects, and the retention time of stores)	Data disk for OMS Store components	ext4 (recommended)

Note

It is recommended that the root directory be no less than 50 GB and that the /opt and /var directories not be mounted separately. If you use Logical Volume Manager (LVM), we recommend that you specify the stripe parameters when creating directories. An example is as follows:

lvcreate -n data -L 3000G obvg --stripes=3 --stripesize=128

Configure NIC settings

It is recommended that you configure two 10 Gbit/s NICs, as follows:

• Name the bond mode bond0, mode1, or mode4 (recommended). If you use mode4, you must configure 802.3ad for the vSwitch.
• Name the two NICs eth0 and eth1 respectively.
• Use network service, not NetworkManager.

Install Docker CE 17.03 or later

Install Docker CE 17.03 or later on servers where OceanBase Admin Toolkit (OAT), OceanBase Developer Center (ODC), and OMS are deployed.