Implementing software-defined storage in IBM PowerVC
This chapter describes how to implement software-defined storage (SDS) in IBM PowerVC.
3.1 Preparing your compute nodes
So that IBM Spectrum Scale can communicate with IBM PowerVC and vice versa without any issues, you must open ports in the firewall for both the Red Hat Enterprise Linux kernel-based virtual machine (KVM) and the Ubuntu PowerVM NovaLink nodes.
Complete the following steps:
1. In a new Red Hat Enterprise Linux v7.x installation, firewalld is the firewall service that comes active ...

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