Setup Overview

Setting up a Parallels Cloud Storage cluster includes these steps:

1. Configuring Parallels Cloud Storage cluster discovery.

   In this step, you define the way of detecting a cluster name and resolving the detected name into the IP addresses of MDS servers. For more on this step, see Configuring Parallels Cloud Storage Discovery .

2. Checking data flushing.

   In this step, you check that all storage devices (hard disk drives, solid disk drives, RAIDs, etc.) you plan to include in your cluster can successfully flush data to disk when the server power goes off unexpectedly.

3. If required, prepare the additional (second, third, etc.) disks as described in Preparing Disks for Parallels Cloud Storage .
4. Setting up metadata servers.

   In this step, you create and configure metadata servers for storing metadata about chunk servers and data chunks. For more on this step, see Setting Up the First Metadata Server .

5. Setting up chunk servers.

   In this step, you create and configure chunk servers for storing the actual content of virtual machines and Containers in data chunks. For more on this step, see Setting Up Chunk Servers .

6. Setting up clients.

   In this step, you create and configure clients from where you will access the Parallels Cloud Storage cluster and run virtual machines and Containers. For more on this step, see Setting Up Clients .

Note: You can also set up a Parallels Cloud Storage using the Parallels Cloud Server 6.0 installer. It automatically configures your system as a metadata server, chunk server, or client. For detailed information on this, see the Parallels Cloud Server 6.0 Installation Guide .