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Gigaspaces installation guide

Start gigaspaces at boot and deploy spaces using upstart on Ubuntu 14.10.

  1. cd /opt
  2. Download http://www.gigaspaces.com/xap-download 
  3. unzip gigaspaces-xap-lite-10.0.1-ga-b11800.zip
    1. unzip advanced_scripts.zip (in the bin folder)
  4. Edit gslicense.xml and add license.
  5. adduser space
  6. chown space:space /opt/gigaspaces-xap-premium-10.0.1-ga -R
  7. Add upstart conf files to /etc/init/ to start Gigaspaces and deploy spaces
    1. cp ^gigaspaces.conf /etc/init/
    2. cp ^gsspaces.conf /etc/init/

Note!

Assuming that you are not mirroring / replicating any data to an external DB, using kill to shutdown gigaspaces should be fine.

Read more about start at boot
  • http://docs.gigaspaces.com/sbp/initd.html

  • Default agent values: http://docs.gigaspaces.com/xap97adm/the-runtime-environment.html

  • https://github.com/patrickmay/gigaspaces-admin

  • http://docs.gigaspaces.com/sbp/safe-grid-shutdown.html