How To Install orangefs-server on CentOS 7

In this tutorial we learn how to install orangefs-server on CentOS 7. orangefs-server is Parallel network file system server

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install orangefs-server on CentOS 7.

What is orangefs-server

OrangeFS (formerly PVFS2) is a high-performance parallel network file system designed for use on high performance computing systems. It provides very high performance access to disk storage for parallel applications. It is accessible through a variety of interfaces, including the native OrangeFS library, the kernel, FUSE, and MPI-IO. This package contains the server.

We can use yum or dnf to install orangefs-server on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install orangefs-server.

Install orangefs-server on CentOS 7 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

After updating yum database, We can install orangefs-server using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install orangefs-server

Install orangefs-server on CentOS 7 Using dnf

If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first. Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache

After updating yum database, We can install orangefs-server using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install orangefs-server

How To Uninstall orangefs-server on CentOS 7

To uninstall only the orangefs-server package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove orangefs-server

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install orangefs-server on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.