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Chapter 3
Installing vFabric SQLFire
You can install vFabric SQLFire from the VMware yum repository (RHEL only) or from a downloaded JAR le.
Installation procedures also vary according to whether you obtained vFabric SQLFire as a standalone product or as
part of VMware
®
vFabric Suite
Advanced.
Installation Note for vFabric Suite Customers
vFabric SQLFire is available as a standalone product installation, and as part of vFabric Suite Advanced. vFabric
Suite is a set of runtime components that let you build, scale, and run modern, agile applications in virtual
environments.
If you obtain SQLFire standalone, you can install it on physical or virtual machines according to the procedures
in this document.
If you obtain SQLFire as part of vFabric Advanced, you install it exclusively on VMware virtual machines that
run on vSphere. The vFabric Suite install process adds the vFabric License Server to an existing vCenter server.
The vFabric License Server accepts a network license, actually a pool of licenses for vFabric components, which
makes it easy to manage the licensing of all components installed on the VMs.
If you obtain SQLFire as part of vFabric Suite Advanced, rst complete the license activation and installation
procedures in Getting Started with vFabric Suite . Then follow procedures in this document to set up your
environment for SQLFire and complete any remaining SQLFire-specic installation and conguration tasks.
RHEL Only: Install vFabric SQLFire from the VMWare YUM Repository
If your operating system is Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), you have the option to use yum to install and
manage vFabric SQLFire instead of using the JAR le installer.
The yum installation process can be used whether you have purchased vFabric Suite or only the vFabric SQLFire
product. vFabric Suite users must rst install the vFabric License Server in the vCenter environment before
installing components. See Getting Started with vFabric Suite for more information.
Prerequisites
See Supported Congurations and System Requirements on page 15 for specic host machine requirements for
Linux systems.
Procedure
1. Log in as the root user to the RHEL VM on which you are going to install the vFabric component and start
a terminal.
2. Run the rpm command to install both the vfabric-5-repo and vfabric-all-repo RPMs from the VMware
repository.
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