Deploying on the SMC appliance

Follow these steps to deploy ThoughtSpot on your Super Micro Computer (SMC) appliance.

ThoughtSpot has stopped selling and renewing hardware appliance contracts. See CentOS end-of-life announcement for more information, and alternative deployment options.

Step 1: Complete installation prerequisites

Step 2: Review hardware requirements

Step 3: Connect your SMC appliance

Step 4: Configure nodes

Step 5: Install cluster

This guide explains how to deploy ThoughtSpot on an SMC appliance, using ThoughtSpot’s CentOS-based image. You can also deploy ThoughtSpot on an SMC appliance using Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), allowing you to run ThoughtSpot on an RHEL 7.8 or 7.9 image that your organization manages internally. To install ThoughtSpot using RHEL, refer to the Deploying ThoughtSpot on your own OS guide.