Getting Started with Memory Machine
You run Memory Machine on a host equipped with one or more PMem devices.
To install and configure Memory Machine, you:
- Verify that the host meets system requirements. See Hardware Recommendations and Software Recommendations.
- Install the software. See the Memory Machine Installation Guide.
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Ensure that the Memory Machine control services are running:
- The Memory Machine Management Service (Management Service), mmctl
- The Memory Machine Agent, mmagent
For this and the next step, see Running Memory Machine Services.
- Start the Memory Machine data services:
- MemVerge Memory Allocation Service (MVMAS), mvmallocd
- Memory Machine Services Daemon, mvsvcd
- Cluster snapshot and snapshot replication service, mvcsnapd
- Ensure that the LD_PRELOAD and MVMALLOC_CONFIG environment variables are set when you run your applications. See Preparing to Run an Application and Running an Application in Memory Machine.