Lab System Setups

1) Downloads
- https://www.virtualbox.org/
- Red Hat 7.7 Developers Edition - https://developers.redhat.com/download-
manager/content/origin/files/sha256/88/88b42e934c24af65e78e09f0993e4dded128d74ec
0af30b89b3cdc02ec48f028/rhel-server-7.7-x86_64-dvd.iso
- https://developers.redhat.com/products/rhel/hello-world#fndtn-virtualbox – installation
instructions!

2) Create a new Virtual Machine in VirtualBox, give it a name of this, this will be the hostname

3) If you are installing a single Portal server, 4096 memory is plenty. Increase by that amount for
each additional Portal server you plan to install in the same virtual machine
4) Create a hard disk, VDI, dynamically allocated, 20GB per Portal JVM is recommended – this will
allow enough room for cumulative fixes when needed:

5) Click Settings, System, Processor, change to 2 processors per JVM

6) Click Settings, Network, make sure “NAT” is selected for Adapter1
7) Click Settings, Network, click “Adapter2” and select “Enable Network Adapter, Host-only”
8) Click Settings, Storage, Empty, click the drop-down for “Choose Virtual Optical Disk File”, browse
to the location on your filesystem where the Red Hat ISO exists

9) Click Start, you should see:

*Tip: On Windows, press right-control to return keyboard/mouse control out of the VM and
back to your desktop

10) Ensure you select Server with GUI:

 ***Partioning fix, /home is waaayy too large

11) Click on Network & HostName, three changes to make here:

a. Set the hostname to a name of your choosing, do NOT use localhost though
b. Turn on the first Ethernet adapter. Note, this is a virtual adapter / does not require an
actual wired cable.
c. Turn on the second Ethernet adapter. Similarly / does not require physical cable

One adapter – likely s3 - should give you a 10.x address, this is your NAT Adapter, note
the DNS entries. The “192.168.1.1” is my home router.

The second adapter – likely s8 – should give you a 192.168.56.*** address. If you see
anything other than .56, it’s not working. There should be no DNS entries here.
For both adapters, go into configure and turn off IPv6
12) Click Begin Installatoin. While installing, set a root password. Optionally, you may create a non-
root user account.
13) Near the end, you’ll be prompted to accept a license. Do so, reboot
14) Once rebooted, login as root, goto applications, Favorites, Terminal

15) Try pinging google, this will validate you can get out to the internet
 16) Go in and turn on Red Hat Subscriptions:

Enter your RedHat credentials:

Go back to the terminal and run “yum update -y”

You can now install additional software if needed

17) Go into Applications, System Tools, Settings, Devices, Display, change the resolution to
something higher:

Optional: Setup autologin:

https://linuxconfig.org/enable-gdm-automatic-user-login-on-centos-7

Optional: Disable autolock

https://vishmule.com/2015/02/17/how-to-turn-off-gui-screen-lock-on-rhel-7/

18) In terminal – type “reboot”

19) On your host operating system, setup a SFTP client of choice (I have Filezilla) and SSH client of
choice (I have putty)
20) Transfer your Portal disc images into the image
21) Installation Notes:
- For your Installation Manager directory, you’ll have to chmod 777 it, otherwise IIM will crash
- Do not install Java8 separately, only include the one listed with WAS 905

- Because we use the same installers as 8.5, the default install directories will be /opt/IBM,
change to /opt/HCL. This isn’t a firm requirement to change and customers may keep /opt/IBM
if they wish, but for cluster guide, this is the recommendation.