Veritas InfoScale 7.0 Installation and Upgrade Guide - Windows

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Product(s): InfoScale & Storage Foundation (7.0)
Platform: Windows
  1. Preinstallation and planning
    1. About the Veritas InfoScale product suite
      1.  
        About the Dynamic Multi-pathing for VMware component
    2.  
      Supported hardware and software
    3.  
      Disk space requirements
    4. Installation prerequisites
      1.  
        Requirements for installing InfoScale Storage in a Microsoft Failover Cluster
    5. Recommendations and best practices
      1. Verifying the system configuration using the Windows Data Collector
        1.  
          Installing the Windows Data Collector
        2.  
          Running the verification reports
    6. About InfoScale licenses
      1.  
        Licensing notes
      2.  
        vxlicrep command
  2. Installing the Infoscale products
    1.  
      About installing Veritas InfoScale products
    2.  
      About InfoScale products co-existence
    3. Installing the server components using the product installer
      1.  
        Applying the selected installation and product options to multiple systems
    4. Installing the server components using CLI
      1.  
        Parameters for setup.exe
    5.  
      Available product options and supported DMPW DSMs
    6.  
      Registering InfoScale Storage resource DLLs
    7.  
      Installing the client components
  3. Upgrading to InfoScale products
    1. Preparing the systems for an upgrade
      1.  
        About the supported upgrade paths and the supported minimum product versions
      2.  
        General preparations
      3.  
        Recommendations and considerations for product upgrade
    2. Performing the product upgrade
      1. Upgrading SFW or SFW Basic in a non-clustered environment
        1.  
          Preparing the primary site for upgrade in a non-clustered SFW environment
      2. Upgrading SFW or SFW Basic in a Windows Server Failover Cluster environment
        1.  
          Preparing the secondary site for SFW upgrade in a Windows Server Failover Cluster environment
        2.  
          Failing over application to secondary site
        3.  
          Preparing the primary site for SFW upgrade in a Windows Server Failover Cluster environment
      3.  
        Upgrading VCS
      4. Upgrading SFW HA
        1.  
          Preparing the primary and secondary sites for upgrading SFW HA in a Volume Replicator environment
        2.  
          Associating the replication logs and starting the replication
        3.  
          Re-enabling Volume Replicator in a VCS cluster
      5.  
        Upgrading DMPW
    3.  
      About transitioning between the InfoScale products
  4. Performing the post upgrade tasks
    1.  
      Deployment scenarios and applicable post upgrade tasks
    2.  
      Re-enabling Volume Replicator in a non-clustered environment
    3.  
      Re-enabling Volume Replicator in a Windows Server Failover Cluster environment
    4.  
      Reconnecting DMPW DSM paths after the upgrade
    5.  
      Re-configuring the Veritas Scheduler Service
    6.  
      Re-configuring the VxSAS service
    7.  
      Importing the configured rules
    8.  
      Upgrading the dynamic disk group version
    9.  
      Reinstalling the custom agents
    10.  
      Including custom resources
  5. Administering InfoScale product installation
    1.  
      Adding or removing product options
    2.  
      Managing InfoScale licenses
    3.  
      Repairing the InfoScale product installation
    4.  
      About reinstalling the InfoScale products
  6. Uninstalling InfoScale products
    1.  
      About uninstalling InfoScale products
    2.  
      Uninstalling the InfoScale products using the product installer
    3.  
      Uninstalling the InfoScale products using the command line
  7. Performing application upgrades in an InfoScale environment
    1. Upgrading Microsoft SQL Server
      1. Upgrading SQL Server 2008 to SQL Server 2008 R2
        1.  
          Preupgrade tasks for upgrading SQL Server 2008 to SQL Server 2008 R2 in a disaster recovery environment
        2.  
          Upgrading SQL Server 2008 to SQL Server 2008 R2 on the first cluster node
        3.  
          Upgrading SQL Server 2008 to SQL Server 2008 R2 on additional failover nodes
        4.  
          Modifying the SQL Server 2008 service group configuration
        5.  
          Deleting the SQL Server 2008 service group and creating the SQL Server 2008 R2 service group
      2. Upgrading to later versions of SQL Server
        1.  
          Upgrading SQL Server on the first cluster node
        2.  
          Upgrading SQL Server on additional failover nodes
        3.  
          Creating the new SQL Server service group
    2. Upgrading Oracle
      1.  
        Performing the post upgrade tasks
      2.  
        Associating the updated Oracle database with the listener
      3. Configuring the Oracle database and listener to use the virtual IP address
        1.  
          Setting the dispatchers parameter in PFILE
        2.  
          Setting the dispatchers parameter in SPFILE
      4.  
        Configuring Oracle and listener services
      5.  
        Modifying the ServiceName attribute for the netlsnr resource
    3. Upgrading application service packs in an InfoScale environment
      1. Upgrading the Exchange Server service packs
        1.  
          Upgrading Exchange Server 2007 to a service pack
        2.  
          Upgrading Exchange Server 2010 to a service pack
      2. Upgrading the SQL Server service packs
        1.  
          Upgrading SQL Server 2008 or 2008 R2 to a service pack
        2.  
          Upgrading SQL Server 2012 to a service pack
      3.  
        Upgrading SharePoint Server 2010 to a service pack
  8. Appendix A. Services and ports
    1.  
      InfoScale ports and services
  9. Appendix B. Migrating from 3rd party multi-pathing solution to Dynamic Multi-pathing
    1.  
      Migrating from EMC PowerPath
    2. Migrating from Hitachi Dynamic Link Manager (HDLM)
      1.  
        Uninstalling HDLM in a non-clustered environment
      2.  
        Uninstalling HDLM in a clustered (MSCS or VCS) environment
    3.  
      Configuring DMPW for Active/Active load balancing in a cluster

General preparations

Perform the following general pre-upgrade checks or tasks on all the systems:

The following table lists the general pre-upgrade checks.

Table: General pre-upgrade checks

Tasks

Applicable for

 

InfoScale Foundation

InfoScale Availability

InfoScale Storage

InfoScale Enterprise

Back up configuration and application data

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Review licensing details

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Review the installation requirements and perform the required pre-installation tasks

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Ensure there are no parallel scheduled snapshots in progress

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Verify that the systems in your environment meet the requirements to upgrade the cluster. Run the Windows Data Collector that is available on the SORT website to perform these checks.

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Ensure that there are no parallel installations, live updates, or Microsoft Windows updates in progress

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If the systems have NetBackup version 6.0 or 6.5 installed and running, then shut down the OpsCenterServer service. Both, NetBackup and InfoScale products share the same AT broker and client.

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Save and close the cluster configuration. This operation saves the latest configuration to disk and changes the configuration state to read-only mode

To save the cluster configuration, perform one of the following tasks:

  • From the Java Console, click Save and Close Configuration on the Cluster Explorer toolbar.

  • From the command prompt, type the following command:

    C:\>haconf -dump -makero

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Take the backup of custom agent binaries

During the product upgrade, a backup of the main.cf and other configuration files is taken. However, it does not take the backup of any agent binaries.

During the upgrade, the contents of %VCS_home% folder are removed. As a result, all the binaries of all the enterprise agents and custom agents that were installed are removed. After the upgrade is complete, all the binaries of enterprise agents are installed again. However, the binaries of a custom agent are not installed again. The main.cf that is restored after the upgrade shows that the custom agent resources are configured. However, the binaries are not present in the %VCS_home% folder. You must manually install the custom agents after the upgrade is complete.

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To perform parallel upgrade, take the service groups offline

To take the service groups offline

  1. From the command prompt, type:

    C:\>hagrp -offline group_name -sys system_name

    Where 'group_name' is the name of the service group and system_name is the node on which the group is online.

  2. Repeat this command for all service groups that are online.

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Close client applications

If you are running any of the following client applications on the systems where you plan to upgrade the product, stop and exit all the application instances.

  • Cluster Manager (Java Console)

  • Solutions Configuration Center (SCC)

  • Veritas Enterprise Administrator (VEA)

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Export the configured rules

If you have configured any rules for event notification messages and actions, you must export them into XML format before you begin with the upgrade.

To export the configured rules

  1. From the VEA Control Panel perspective, select the action agent node in the tree view and double-click Rule Manager in the right pane.

  2. In the Rule Manager window, select the rules you want to export and then click Export.

  3. Save the rules at any temporary location in the XML format.

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