ECS Community Edition

ECS CE Install Node Image

ECS Software Image

Current releases and history are available here.

Community Guides

Please read our Community Code of Conduct before contributing. Thank you.

Description

EMC ECS is a stateful, containerized, object storage system for cloud storage protocols. ECS is compatible with AWS S3 and OpenStack Swift. On file-enabled buckets, ECS can provide NFS exports for file-level access to objects.

ECS can be set up on one or more hosts or virtual machines in a single-site or a multi-site geo replicated configuration. We want the wider community to use ECS and provide feedback. Usage of this software is under the End User License Agreement at the bottom of this README.

ECS Community Edition is a free, reduced footprint, version of Dell EMC's ECS software. Of course, this means there are some limitations to the use of the software, so the question arises; how is the Community Edition of ECS different from the production version?

License difference

As noted with the included license, ECS Community cannot be used in production environments and is intended to be used for trial and proof of concept purposes only. This software is still owned and protected by Dell EMC.

Feature differences

It it important to note that ECS-Community Edition is not the same as ECS software and as such lacks some features that are integral to the actual ECS software.

• ECS Community Edition does NOT support encryption
• ECS Community Edition does NOT include ECS' system management, or "fabric", layer

Notice

Because of these differences, ECS Community Edition is absolutely not qualified for testing failure scenarios. Failure scenarios can only be adequately mimicked on the full version of ECS Software.

Quick Start Guide

If you have the following:

1. A CentOS Minimal install of the latest CentOS release with:
   1. 16GB RAM
   2. 16GB block device for system
   3. 104GB block device for ECS
2. Internet access
3. No proxies, local mirrors, or special Docker registries

Then you should be able to get up and going with a Single-Node All-in-One install using these commands on your VM:

# git clone https://github.com/EMCECS/ECS-CommunityEdition
# cd ECS-CommunityEdition
# cp docs/design/reference.deploy.yml deploy.yml
# echo "Edit this deploy.yml to match your VM's environment"
# vi deploy.yml
# ./bootstrap.sh -y -g -c deploy.yml

And then after the node reboots (you did use a clean minimal install from ISO or netinstall right?):

# step1
# step2

And if all went well, you now have a working stand-alone ECS, mostly configured, and ready for use.

Hardware Requirements

Minimum

Note: A minimum configuration is only suitable for short-term sandbox testing Hardware or virtual machine with:

• 4 CPU Cores
• 16GB RAM
• 16GB root block storage
• 104GB additional block storage
• CentOS Minimal installation of the latest CentOS release

Recommended

Note: A recommended configuration is more suitable for longer-term functional testing Hardware or virtual machine with:

• 8 CPU Cores
• 64GB RAM
• 16GB root block storage
• 1TB additional block storage
• CentOS Minimal installation of the latest CentOS release

Deployment Scenarios

Deploy into Internet-Connected Environments

ECS Single-Node All-in-One Deployment (recommended, fastest, smallest footprint)

Deploy a stand-alone instance of ECS to a single hardware or virtual machine.

ECS Multi-Node All-in-One Deployment with Install Node (EC replication with > 3 nodes)

Deploy a multi-node ECS instance to two or more hardware or virtual machines. Three nodes are required to enable erasure-coding replication.

Deployments into Soft-Isolated and Air-Gapped Island Environments

Important information regarding Island deployments

Please be aware that install node bootstrapping requires Internet access to the hardware or virtual machine that will become the install node, but once this step is complete, the machine can be removed from the Internet and migrated into the Island environment.

Deploying from OVA

In situations where Internet access is completely disallowed, or for the sake of convenience, an OVA of a prefabricated, bootstrapped, install node is provided. Please download the OVA from one of the links below.

The OVA is shipped as a bootstrapped install node. It must be cloned multiple times to create as many Data Store Nodes as desired.

OVA Special Requirements

• All nodes MUST be clones of the OVA.
• All nodes MUST have their virtual hardware configurations updated to match the node type requirements.

Default Credentials

• The default password for the admin accounts is ChangeMe. The default password for root is unknowable.
• For security reasons, it is strongly advised to change the password for admin immediately after installation.

Network Configuration

• The OVA is configured to acquire network settings via DHCP. Static configurations must be manually configured with sudo nmtui

OVA Download Links

Please see the release page for OVA download links. Please validate the package integrity against the provided sha512 hash mentioned for a release, before commencing deployment.

ECS Single-Node Deployment with Install Node (recommended)

Using an install node for isolated environments, deploy a stand-alone instance of ECS to a single hardware or virtual machine.

ECS Multi-Node Deployment with Install Node

Using an install node for isolated environments, deploy a multi-node ECS instance to two or more hardware or virtual machines. Three nodes are required to enable erasure-coding replication.

Directory Structure

Support

Please file bugs and issues at the ECS's site in the EMC Community Network (ECS's support site) and you can also use this GitHub's repository issues page. For more general discussions you can contact the EMC Code team at Google Groups or tagged with EMC on Stack Overflow. The code and documentation are released with no warranties or SLAs and are intended to be supported through a community driven process.

License Agreement

EMC ECS Software Limited-Use License Agreement

This EMC Software License Agreement (the "Agreement") is a legal agreement between EMC Corporation, with a principal office at 176 South Street, Hopkinton, MA 01748 USA ("EMC") and you and the organization on whose behalf you are accessing this Agreement (the "Customer") and governs Customer’s access to, downloading of, and use of any and all components, associated media, printed materials, documentation, and programming accessed via the EMC software (the "Software").

By clicking on the "Agree" or check box or similar button set forth below, or by downloading, installing, or using the Software, you are representing to EMC that (i) you are authorized to legally bind the Customer, and (ii) you are agreeing on behalf of the Customer that the terms of this Agreement shall govern the relationship of the parties with regard to the Software.

If you do not have authority to agree to the terms of this Agreement, or do not accept the terms of this Agreement, click on the "Cancel" or similar button or discontinue your efforts to download the Software, and the registration, download and/or installation process will not continue. In such event, no access to, or authorization to download or use the Software, is granted by EMC.

EMC and Customer enter into this Agreement and this Agreement shall become effective on the date on which Customer clicks on the "Agree" button described above or downloads, installs or uses the Software, whichever occurs first (the "Effective Date"). NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the premises and obligations contained herein, it is agreed as follows:

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