Installation/Upgrading on RHEL/CentOS, SLES 12 SP2 and Debian 7/8

Installation of prerequisite packages

RHEL/CentOS

yum install httpd gcc perl kernel-devel sg3_utils

Ensure that the kernel-devel package version matches the installed kernel version
To get the kernel-devel package version
rpm -qa | grep kernel-devel
To get the running kernel version
uname -r

If the kernel-devel version is ahead of the installed kernel then do the following additional steps
yum upgrade kernel
reboot
yum upgrade kernel-devel

QLogic Firmware

The FC target-mode driver has issues with the 8.06 firmware installed by linux-firmware-20170606-56.gitc990aae.el7.noarch on RHEL/CentOS Linux release 7.3.1611 (Core)
The recent 8.07 firmware is recommended which can be got from https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware.... .

Firmware can also be updated using the following links
http://www.quadstor.com/vtlnext/firmware.tgz
http://www.quadstor.com/vtlnext/firmware2400.tgz

Firmware upgrade procedure

On the VTL system as root user
1. tar xvzf firmware.tgz (For the qla/qle24xx cards use tar xvzf
firmware2400.tgz)
2. sh firmware/copyfirmware.sh
3. Reboot
4. grep "fw=" /var/log/dmesg This should be fw=8.07.00 or greater

SLES 12 SP2

zypper install apache2 gcc perl kernel-default-devel sg3_utils
a2enmod cgi

Debian Wheezy 7.x

apt-get install uuid-runtime build-essential linux-headers-`uname -r` sg3-utils apache2 psmisc
apt-get install firmware-qlogic (for FC access)
a2enmod cgi

NOTE: a2enmod command is not present on Debian 7 and can be skipped

Run the following chkconfig commands to start httpd/apache2 on system startup

/sbin/chkconfig --add httpd (RHEL/CentOS)
/sbin/chkconfig --add apache2 (SLES 12)

Installation/Upgrading of QUADStor on RHEL/CentOS 6.x/7.x, SLES 12 SP2 and Debian 7

Uninstall any previous version of the software by (in the same order listed)

On RHEL/CentOS/SLES 12

sh# rpm -e quadstor-xxxx  - where the version can be got by
sh# rpm -qa | grep quadstor
On Debian systems

Extended Edtion:
sh# dpkg -r quadstor-vtl-ext

/quadstorvtl/pgdata contains the configuration database of the software. This data is maintained even after an uninstall of the software and is required during upgrades. If this data were to manually removed all previous configuration such as configured storage, VTL information etc is lost. Refer to http://www.quadstor.com/support/131-recovering-from-a-lost-or-damaged-da... to recover from a lost or damage database

Install the packages by running the following commands (in the same order listed)

On RHEL/CentOS/SLES 12:
sh# rpm -ivh quadstor-vtl-xxx.rpm

On Debian Systems
dpkg -i quadstor-vtl-xxx.deb

By default quadstorvtl services are automatically started during system startup.If you wish to start the service manually then run the following command

sh# /sbin/chkconfig --del quadstorvtl

To start the service manually

sh# /etc/rc.d/init.d/quadstorvtl start (On RHEL/CentOS)
sh# /etc/init.d/quadstorvtl start (On SLES, Debian)

To stop the service

sh# /etc/rc.d/init.d/quadstorvtl stop (On RHEL/CentOS)
sh# /etc/init.d/quadstorvtl stop (On SLES, Debian)

If the system already has other iscsi target software services running, ensure that they are not started on system startup and while starting the quadstorvtl service

After an install and if a reboot was not initiated you will need to manually start the quadstor service. However if after the install the system was rebooted quadstorvtl service would have started automatically

SELinux Considerations

While the package installation and quadstorvtl start script takes care of on SELinux enabled environment the following need to be done if you have SELinux enabled

/usr/sbin/setsebool -P httpd_enable_cgi 1
/usr/sbin/semanage permissive -a httpd_t

On RHEL/CentOS 6.x you need to install policycoreutils-python package (yum install policycoreutils-python) to install semanage utility

Fibre Channel driver installation

A reboot is required to load the new FC driver if LUNs are to be accessed via the FC interface