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vFabric SQLFire in 15 Minutes
Need a quick introduction to vFabric SQLFire? Take this 15-minute tour to try out the basic features and
functionality.
The vFabric SQLFire tutorials expand on these concepts, and demonstrate additional product features. See
Tutorials on page 35.
1. Download the latest SQLFire 1.1 ZIP le distribution from the download page:
https://my.vmware.com/web/vmware/info/slug/application_platform/vmware_vfabric_sqlre/1_0. Save the
downloaded le in your home directory.
2. Install SQLFire 1.1 by uncompressing the ZIP le:
$ cd ~
$ unzip vFabric_SQLFire_11_bNNNNN.zip
Substitute the exact lename that you downloaded.
This installs SQLFire in a new vFabric_SQLFire_11_b NNNNN subdirectory in your home directory,
where NNNNN is the specic SQLFire build number that you downloaded.
3. If you have not already done so, download and install Java.
For a list of Java versions supported with this release of vFabric SQLFire, see Supported Congurations and
System Requirements on page 15.
4.
Set your PATH environment variable to include the bin subdirectory of the vFabric SQLFire directory. For
example:
$ export PATH=$PATH:/home/username/vFabric_SQLFire_11_bNNNNN/bin
5.
Change to the SQLFire installation quickstart directory, and create three new directories for the locator
and two servers that will make up the SQLFire distributed system:
$ cd ~/vFabric_SQLFire_11_bNNNNN/quickstart
$ mkdir locator1 server1 server2
6. Start the locator:
$ sqlf locator start -peer-discovery-address=localhost -dir=locator1
Starting network server for SQLFire Locator at address
localhost/127.0.0.1[1527]
SQLFire Locator pid: 8787 status: running
Logs generated in
/home/yozie/vFabric_SQLFire_11_bNNNNN/quickstart/locator1/sqlflocator.log
This command starts a default locator that accepts connections on the localhost address. The default port of
10334 is used for communication with other members of the distributed system. (You can double-check that
this port is used by examining the locator1/sqlflocator.log le.) All new members of the distributed
system must specify this locator's address and peer discovery port, localhost[10334], in order to join the
system.
The default port of 1527 is used for client connections to the distributed system.
7. Start both servers:
$ sqlf server start -locators=localhost[10334] -bind-address=localhost
-client-port=1528 -dir=server1
$ sqlf server start -locators=localhost[10334] -bind-address=localhost
-client-port=1529 -dir=server2
Starting SQLFire Server using locators for peer discovery: localhost[10334]
Starting network server for SQLFire Server at address
localhost/127.0.0.1[1528]
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