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Install SQLFire as a Standalone Product
If you purchased the standalone product (rather than as part of vFabric Suite Advanced), follow this procedure
to download and install only the SQLFire RPM:
1. From the VMware downloads page, select VMware vFabric SQLFire. On the SQLFire 1.1 download page,
perform the following steps:
If you are installing SQLFire for evaluation, click on the "Download Free Trial" link, register an account
with VMware (if you have not done so already) and download SQLFire.
If you have already purchased SQLFire, locate the vFabric SQLFire licensed offering that you have purchased
from the Product Downloads tab. Click on the View Download button.
Download the vFabric SQLFire RPM appropriate for your RHEL operating system.
RHEL 5: vfabric-sqlfire-1.1-1.el5.noarch.rpm
RHEL 6: vfabric-sqlfire-1.1-1.el6.noarch.rpm
2.
On the RHEL computer, start a terminal either as the root user or as an unprivileged user who has sudo
privileges.
Note: If you are not logged in as the root user, you must use the sudo command to run the commands
in the following steps.
3. Run the appropriate command to install the vFabric repository RPMs:
RHEL 5:
sudo rpm -ivh vfabric-sqlfire-1.1-1.el5.noarch.rpm
RHEL 6:
sudo rpm -ivh vfabric-sqlfire-1.1-1.el6.noarch.rpm
The rpm command begins the install process, resolves dependencies, and displays the packages it plans to
install. The SQLFire software is installed into the /opt/vmware/vfabric-sqlfire directory.
If necessary, the install process creates a sqlfire non-interactive user in the vfabric group. This user
owns the installed SQLFire directories and les, including any disk store les that you create later.
Note: You cannot log in directly as the sqlfire user because interactive login has been disabled.
Rather, you must rst log in as the root user or as a user with sudo privileges. You can then execute
commands as the sqlfire user by using sudo -u sqlfire command_name .
4.
If the installation is successful, you see a [100%] installation status message. For example:
Preparing... ###########################################
[100%]
1:vfabric-sqlfire ###########################################
[100%]
5. If you have not already done so, download and install a compatible JDK or JRE on the RHEL computer or
VM.
6.
(Optional.) Specify that the vfabric-sqlfire process should automatically start when the operating
system starts by running the following command:
chkconfig --level 35 vfabric-sqlfire on
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Getting Started with vFabric SQLFire