About the Greenplum Interconnect 309 Interconnect Redundancy 309 Network Interface Configuration 309 Switch Configuration 310 About ETL Hosts for Data Loading 311 About VMware Greenplum Performance Monitoring or Configure Firewall Software 402 Recommended OS Parameters Settings 402 The hosts File 403 The sysctl.conf File 403 System Resources Limits 406 Core Dump 407 XFS Mount Options 407 Disk I/O Settings Creating the Initialization Host File 427 To create the initialization host file 427 Creating the Greenplum Database Configuration File 428 To create a gpinitsystem_config file 428 Running the Initialization

About the Greenplum Interconnect 295 Interconnect Redundancy 295 Network Interface Configuration 295 Switch Configuration 296 About ETL Hosts for Data Loading 297 About VMware Greenplum Performance Monitoring or Configure Firewall Software 383 Recommended OS Parameters Settings 384 The hosts File 385 The sysctl.conf File 385 System Resources Limits 388 Core Dump 389 XFS Mount Options 389 Disk I/O Settings Creating the Initialization Host File 408 To create the initialization host file 408 Creating the Greenplum Database Configuration File 409 To create a gpinitsystem_config file 409 Running the Initialization

About the Greenplum Interconnect 277 Interconnect Redundancy 277 Network Interface Configuration 277 Switch Configuration 278 About ETL Hosts for Data Loading 279 About VMware Greenplum Performance Monitoring Creating the Base Virtual Machine 351 Preparing the Virtual Machine 352 Performing System Configuration 352 Installing the Greenplum Database Software 360 Validating the Base Virtual Machine 362 Creating the Base Virtual Machine 372 Preparing the Virtual Machine 372 Performing System Configuration 373 Adding Greenplum Database Service 381 Installing the Greenplum Database Software 382 Validating

About the Greenplum Interconnect 269 Interconnect Redundancy 269 Network Interface Configuration 269 Switch Configuration 270 About ETL Hosts for Data Loading 271 About Tanzu Greenplum Performance Monitoring Creating the Base Virtual Machine 341 Preparing the Virtual Machine 342 Performing System Configuration 342 Installing the Greenplum Database Software 350 Validating the Base Virtual Machine 352 Creating the Base Virtual Machine 362 Preparing the Virtual Machine 362 Performing System Configuration 363 Adding Greenplum Database Service 371 Installing the Greenplum Database Software 372 Validating

About the Greenplum Interconnect 265 Interconnect Redundancy 265 Network Interface Configuration 265 Switch Configuration 266 About ETL Hosts for Data Loading 267 About Tanzu Greenplum Performance Monitoring Creating the Base Virtual Machine 337 Preparing the Virtual Machine 338 Performing System Configuration 338 Installing the Greenplum Database Software 346 Validating the Base Virtual Machine 348 Creating the Base Virtual Machine 358 Preparing the Virtual Machine 358 Performing System Configuration 359 VMware Tanzu Greenplum 6 Documentation VMware, Inc. 15 Adding Greenplum Database Service

About the Greenplum Interconnect 240 Interconnect Redundancy 240 Network Interface Configuration 240 Switch Configuration 241 About ETL Hosts for Data Loading 242 About Tanzu Greenplum Performance Monitoring Creating the Virtual Machine Template 305 Preparing the Virtual Machine 305 Performing System Configuration 306 Installing the Greenplum Database Software 312 Creating the Greenplum Template 313 Validating or Configure Firewall Software 333 Recommended OS Parameters Settings 334 The hosts File 335 The sysctl.conf File 335 System Resources Limits 337 Core Dump 338 XFS Mount Options 338 Disk I/O Settings

Layout 239 The Interconnect 240 Interconnect Redundancy 240 Network Interface Configuration 240 Switch Configuration 241 ETL Hosts for Data Loading 242 Tanzu Greenplum Performance Monitoring 243 or Configure Firewall Software 248 Recommended OS Parameters Settings 249 The hosts File 250 The sysctl.conf File 250 System Resources Limits 252 Core Dump 253 XFS Mount Options 253 Disk I/O Settings Creating the Initialization Host File 271 To create the initialization host file 272 Creating the Greenplum Database Configuration File 272 To create a gpinitsystem_config file 272 Running the Initialization

18 Documentation VMware, Inc. 8 Interconnect Redundancy 233 Network Interface Configuration 233 Switch Configuration 234 ETL Hosts for Data Loading 235 Tanzu Greenplum Performance Monitoring 236 or Configure Firewall Software 241 Recommended OS Parameters Settings 242 The hosts File 243 The sysctl.conf File 243 System Resources Limits 245 Core Dump 246 XFS Mount Options 246 Disk I/O Settings Creating the Initialization Host File 263 To create the initialization host file 263 Creating the Greenplum Database Configuration File 264 To create a gpinitsystem_config file 264 Running the Initialization

Layout 237 The Interconnect 238 Interconnect Redundancy 238 Network Interface Configuration 238 Switch Configuration 239 ETL Hosts for Data Loading 240 Tanzu Greenplum Performance Monitoring 241 or Configure Firewall Software 246 Recommended OS Parameters Settings 247 The hosts File 248 The sysctl.conf File 248 System Resources Limits 251 Core Dump 251 XFS Mount Options 251 Disk I/O Settings Creating the Initialization Host File 268 To create the initialization host file 269 Creating the Greenplum Database Configuration File 269 To create a gpinitsystem_config file 269 Running the Initialization

About the Greenplum Interconnect 160 Interconnect Redundancy 160 Network Interface Configuration 160 Switch Configuration 161 About ETL Hosts for Data Loading 162 About VMware Greenplum Performance Monitoring or Configure Firewall Software 194 Recommended OS Parameters Settings 195 The hosts File 195 The sysctl.conf File 196 System Resources Limits 199 Core Dump 199 XFS Mount Options 199 Disk I/O Settings Creating the Initialization Host File 218 To create the initialization host file 219 Creating the Greenplum Database Configuration File 219 To create a gpinitsystem_config file 219 Running the Initialization