Hello carterbury1, you can set the password for the root user in Ubuntu 14.04:  - login to ubuntu server using your current admin user - type: "sudo su -" - The system ask for the password of the current admin user - Now you are root. Issue the command: "passwd root" in order to set the password for the root user - Make sure the ssh server is installed otherwise issue the command: "apt-get install ssh" - Edit the file: "/etc/ssh/sshd_config" with your preferred editor and change the line: "PermitRootLogin without-password" to "PermitRootLogin yes" - Restart the ssh service issuing the command: "/etc/init.d/ssh restart" - Now you can install the components using the ScaleIO installer on your Ubuntu 14.04  If you need the SDC role on the current Ubuntu 14.04 there is an issue because there is a kernel version mismatch with the compiled version of the scini module distributed with ScaleIO 2.0.0.1. The module is built for kernel version 4.4.0-15 that was removed in the current branch of ubuntu 14.04. In case you need to run the SDC role write again here, I will share with you the 4 original ubuntu kernel packages for Ubuntu 14.04. In that case you can install them using dpkg -i .  Davide
I have a VMware install with the SVM's holding all other roles besides SDC.  These SVM's are Suse 11.3.  Now moving to a 5 node cluster I wanted to add an MDM as a standalone physical server outside of the VMware servers.  Suse 11.3 is no longer available for download so I downloaded Ubuntu 14.04.    Is this mismatch of Linux distro's supported especially in the gateway?  I ask because it seems the Gateway won't run the 5 node install of the additional components because it is trying to use root and the password which is fine with Remote login as root on Suse but prohibited in Ubuntu.  I manually installed the LIA on the Ubuntu server as well to rule out the bad password error coming from LIA.  If this isn't going to work, is it going to work if I use Suse 12.0 mixxed with 11.3 for existing components.  It seems there is no clear requirements docs on mixed component environments.
Ubuntu14.04/Suse 11.3 mixed environment support?