3.7. Installing DB2 in a DPF Environment

In a DPF environment with multiple physical machines, each of the participating machines must have DB2 installed locally. To ease the installation of DB2 on other machines, we recommend you create a response file when you install DB2 on the first machine. Once this response file is created, you can transfer the file to the other machines and run a Silent installation (see section 3.4, Silent Install Using a Response File, for details).

The DB2 install code from the installation CD-ROM can reside on a shared disk, from which you proceed to install DB2 locally onto each participating computer, as illustrated in Figure 3.25.

Figure 3.25. Installing DB2 in a DPF environment

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