InfoScale™ 9.0 Installation Guide - Solaris

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Product(s): InfoScale & Storage Foundation (9.0)
Platform: Solaris
  1. Section I. Planning and preparation
    1. Introducing Arctera InfoScale
      1.  
        About the Arctera InfoScale product suite
      2.  
        Components of the Arctera InfoScale product suite
      3.  
        About the co-existence of InfoScale products
    2. Licensing Arctera InfoScale
      1.  
        About Arctera InfoScale product licensing
      2.  
        About InfoScale Core Plus license meter
      3.  
        About telemetry data collection in InfoScale
      4.  
        Licensing notes
      5. About managing InfoScale licenses
        1.  
          About the vxlicinstupgrade utility
      6.  
        Generating license report with vxlicrep command
    3. System requirements
      1.  
        Important release information
      2.  
        Disk space requirements
      3. Hardware requirements
        1.  
          SF and SFHA hardware requirements
        2.  
          SFCFS and SFCFSHA hardware requirements
        3.  
          SF Oracle RAC hardware requirements
        4.  
          VCS hardware requirements
      4.  
        Supported operating systems and database versions
      5.  
        File System (VxFS) requirements
      6.  
        Number of nodes supported
    4. Preparing to install
      1.  
        Mounting the ISO image
      2.  
        Setting up ssh or rsh for inter-system communications
      3.  
        Obtaining installer patches
      4.  
        Disabling external network connection attempts
      5.  
        Verifying the systems before installation
      6. Setting up the private network
        1.  
          Optimizing LLT media speed settings on private NICs
        2.  
          Guidelines for setting the media speed for LLT interconnects
        3.  
          Guidelines for setting the maximum transmission unit (MTU) for LLT interconnects in Flexible Storage Sharing (FSS) environments
      7. Setting up shared storage
        1.  
          Setting up shared storage: SCSI disks
        2.  
          Setting up shared storage: Fibre Channel
      8.  
        Synchronizing time settings on cluster nodes
      9.  
        Creating a root user
      10.  
        Configuring LLT interconnects to use Jumbo Frames
      11.  
        Creating the /opt directory
      12. Planning the installation setup for SF Oracle RAC systems
        1. Planning your network configuration
          1.  
            Planning the public network configuration for Oracle RAC
          2. Planning the private network configuration for Oracle RAC
            1.  
              High availability solutions for Oracle RAC private network
          3.  
            Planning the public network configuration for Oracle RAC
          4.  
            Planning the private network configuration for Oracle RAC
        2. Planning the storage
          1.  
            Planning the storage
          2. Planning the storage for Oracle RAC
            1. Planning the storage for OCR and voting disk
              1.  
                OCR and voting disk storage configuration for external redundancy
              2.  
                OCR and voting disk storage configuration for normal redundancy
            2.  
              Planning the storage for Oracle RAC binaries and data files
            3.  
              Planning for Oracle RAC ASM over CVM
        3.  
          Planning volume layout
        4.  
          Planning file system design
        5.  
          Setting the umask before installation
      13.  
        Making the IPS publisher accessible
      14.  
        Preparing zone environments
  2. Section II. Installation of Arctera InfoScale
    1. Installing Arctera InfoScale using the installer
      1.  
        Installing Arctera InfoScale using the installer
      2.  
        Executive Order logging
    2. Installing Arctera InfoScale using response files
      1. About response files
        1.  
          Syntax in the response file
      2.  
        Installing InfoScale using response files
      3.  
        Response file variables to install Arctera InfoScale
      4.  
        Sample response files for Arctera InfoScale installation
    3. Installing Arctera InfoScale using operating system-specific methods
      1.  
        About installing InfoScale using operating system-specific methods
      2. Installing InfoScale on Solaris 11 using Automated Installer
        1.  
          About Automated Installation
        2.  
          Using Automated Installer
        3.  
          Using AI to install the Solaris 11 operating system and Arctera InfoScale products
      3. Manually installing packages on Solaris 11 systems
        1.  
          Manually installing packages on Oracle Solaris 11 systems
        2.  
          Manually installing packages on Solaris non-global zones
      4.  
        Installing InfoScale using an IPS repository
    4. Completing the post installation tasks
      1.  
        Verifying product installation
      2.  
        Setting environment variables
      3.  
        Commands to manage the Arctera Telemetry Collector on your server
      4.  
        Disabling the abort sequence on SPARC systems
      5.  
        Next steps after installation
  3. Section III. Uninstallation of Arctera InfoScale
    1. Uninstalling Arctera InfoScale using the installer
      1. About removing Arctera InfoScale
        1. Preparing to uninstall
          1.  
            Remote uninstallation
          2. Preparing to remove Volume Manager (VxVM)
            1.  
              Moving volumes from an encapsulated root disk
            2.  
              Moving volumes to disk partitions
            3.  
              Example of moving volumes to disk partitions on Solaris
          3.  
            Preparing to remove File System (VxFS)
      2.  
        Removing the Replicated Data Set
      3.  
        Uninstalling InfoScale packages using the installer
      4.  
        Uninstalling Arctera InfoScale using the pkgrm or pkg uninstall command
      5.  
        Manually uninstalling InfoScale packages on non-global zones on Solaris 11
      6.  
        Removing the Storage Foundation for Databases (SFDB) repository
    2. Uninstalling Arctera InfoScale using response files
      1.  
        Uninstalling InfoScale using response files
      2.  
        Response file variables to uninstall Arctera InfoScale
      3.  
        Sample response file for InfoScale uninstallation
  4. Section IV. Installation reference
    1. Appendix A. Installation scripts
      1.  
        Installation script options
    2. Appendix B. Tunable files for installation
      1.  
        About setting tunable parameters using the installer or a response file
      2.  
        Setting tunables for an installation, configuration, or upgrade
      3.  
        Setting tunables with no other installer-related operations
      4.  
        Setting tunables with an un-integrated response file
      5.  
        Preparing the tunables file
      6.  
        Setting parameters for the tunables file
      7.  
        Tunables value parameter definitions
    3. Appendix C. Troubleshooting installation issues
      1.  
        Restarting the installer after a failed network connection
      2.  
        About the VRTSspt package troubleshooting tools
      3.  
        Incorrect permissions for root on remote system
      4.  
        Inaccessible system

Planning volume layout

The following recommendations ensure optimal layout of VxVM/CVM volumes:

  • Mirror the volumes across two or more storage arrays, if using VxVM mirrors. Keep the Fast Mirror Resync regionsize equal to the database block size to reduce the copy-on-write (COW) overhead. Reducing the regionsize increases the amount of Cache Object allocations leading to performance overheads.

  • Distribute the I/O load uniformly on all Cache Objects when you create multiple Cache Objects.

  • Implement zoning on SAN switch to control access to shared storage. Be aware that physical disks may be shared by multiple servers or applications and must therefore be protected from accidental access.

  • Choose DMP I/O policy based on the storage network topology and the application I/O pattern.

  • Exploit thin provisioning for better return on investment.

  • For SF Oracle RAC:

    Separate the Oracle recovery structures from the database files to ensure high availability when you design placement policies.

    Separate redo logs and place them on the fastest storage (for example, RAID 1+ 0) for better performance.

    Use "third-mirror break-off" snapshots for cloning the Oracle log volumes. Do not create Oracle log volumes on a Space-Optimized (SO) snapshot.

    Create as many Cache Objects (CO) as possible when you use Space-Optimized (SO) snapshots for Oracle data volumes.