InfoScale™ 9.0 Installation and Upgrade Guide - Windows
- Preinstallation and planning
- About the Arctera InfoScale product suite
- Supported hardware and software
- Disk space requirements
- Installation requirements
- Requirements for installing InfoScale Storage in a Microsoft Failover Cluster
- Recommendations and best practices
- About InfoScale licenses
- About telemetry data collection in InfoScale
- About InfoScale and UEFI Secure Boot
- Installing the Arctera InfoScale products
- About installing the InfoScale products
- About the co-existence of InfoScale products
- Installing the server components using the installation wizard
- Applying the selected installation and product options to multiple systems
- Installing the server components using the command-line installer
- Parameters for Setup.exe
- Available product options and supported DMP DSMs
- Registering the InfoScale Storage resource DLLs
- Installing the client components
- Configure Key Management Server (KMS) for volume encryption
- Upgrading the InfoScale products
- Performing the post upgrade tasks
- Deployment scenarios and applicable post upgrade tasks
- Re-enabling Volume Replicator in a non-clustered environment
- Re-enabling Volume Replicator in a Microsoft failover cluster environment
- Reconnecting DMP DSM paths after the upgrade
- Reconfiguring the Veritas InfoScale Messaging Service
- Importing the configured rules
- Upgrading clusters for stronger security
- Reinstalling the custom agents
- Including custom resources
- Administering the InfoScale product installation
- Uninstalling the InfoScale products
- Performing application upgrades in an InfoScale environment
- Upgrading Microsoft SQL Server
- Upgrading Oracle
- Upgrading application service packs in an InfoScale environment
- Appendix A. Services and ports
- Appendix B. Migrating from a third-party multi-pathing solution to DMP
Deployment scenarios and applicable post upgrade tasks
After upgrading the primary and secondary site, upgrade the disk group (DG).
The latest DG version is 200.
To upgrade the DG version:
Via GUI: Right click and then click .
Via CLI: vxdg -g<DynamicDiskGroupName> [-T <version>] upgrade
The post-upgrade tasks are based on the type of configuration you have deployed.
The following table lists the typical product upgrade scenarios and the corresponding post-upgrade tasks.
Table: Typical product upgrade scenarios and the corresponding post-upgrade tasks
SFW Basic/ SFW (non-clustered environment) | SFW Basic/ SFW (Microsoft Failover Cluster environment) | VCS | SFW HA | SFW HA (Volume Replicator environment) | DMP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Re-enable replication See Re-enabling Volume Replicator in a non-clustered environment. |
Re-enable replication See Re-enabling Volume Replicator in a Microsoft failover cluster environment. | --- | --- | Replication is re-enabled as part of the upgrade workflow | --- |
Reconnect DSM paths, if applicable | Reconnect DSM paths, if applicable | --- | Reconnect DSM paths, if applicable | Reconnect DSM paths, if applicable | Reconnect DSM paths |
Re-configure services | Re-configure services | --- | Re-configure services | --- | --- |
Import rules | Import rules | --- | Import rules | Import rules | --- |
Import all the disk groups. Then, perform a rescan operation by clicking > from the VEA GUI or by using the vxassist rescan command. For details about the rescan operation, refer to the Storage Foundation Administrator's Guide. | Import all the disk groups. Then, perform a rescan operation by clicking > from the VEA GUI or by using the vxassist rescan command. For details about the rescan operation, refer to the Storage Foundation Administrator's Guide. | --- | Import all the disk groups. Then, perform a rescan operation by clicking > from the VEA GUI or by using the vxassist rescan command. For details about the rescan operation, refer to the Storage Foundation Administrator's Guide. | Import all the disk groups. Then, perform a rescan operation by clicking > from the VEA GUI or by using the vxassist rescan command. For details about the rescan operation, refer to the Storage Foundation Administrator's Guide. | --- |
Upgrade disk group | Upgrade disk group | --- | Upgrade disk group | Upgrade disk group | --- |
--- | --- | Re-install custom agents | Re-install custom agents | Re-install custom agents | --- |
--- | --- | Include custom resources | Include custom resources | Include custom resources | --- |
Upgrade DG version For details on DG version upgrade, See Including custom resources. | Upgrade DG version For details on DG version upgrade, See Including custom resources. | Upgrade DG version For details on DG version upgrade, See Including custom resources. | Upgrade DG version For details on DG version upgrade, See Including custom resources. | Upgrade DG version For details on DG version upgrade, See Including custom resources. | Upgrade DG version For details on DG version upgrade, See Including custom resources. |
