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

Re-configuring the VxSAS service

If you are using Volume Replicator, you must re-configure the VxSAS service on all cluster nodes on both the primary and secondary sites.

Note the following pre-requisites to configure the VxSAS service:

  • You must be logged on with administrative privileges on the server for the wizard to be launched.

  • The account you specify must have administrative and log-on as service privileges on all the specified hosts.

  • Avoid specifying blank passwords. In a Windows Server environment, accounts with blank passwords are not supported for log-on service privileges.

  • Make sure that the hosts on which you want to configure the VxSAS service are accessible from the local host.

The VxSAS wizard will not be launched automatically after installing InfoScale Storage or InfoScale Enterprise. You must launch this wizard manually to complete the Volume Replicator security service configuration.

For details on this required service, see the Volume Replicator Administrator's Guide.

To configure the VxSAS service

  1. Launch the VVR Security Service Configuration wizard from Start > All Programs > Symantec > Veritas Storage Foundation > Configuration Wizards > VVR Security Service Configuration Wizard or, on Windows 2012 operating systems, from the Apps menu in the Start screen.

    Optionally, run vxsascfg.exe from the command prompt of the required machine.

  2. Read the information provided on the Welcome page and click Next.
  3. Complete the Account Information panel as follows:

    Account name (domain\account)

    Enter the administrative account name.

    Password

    Specify a password

    If you have already configured the VxSAS service for one host that is intended to be a part of the RDS, make sure you specify the same username and password when configuring the VxSAS service on the other hosts.

    Click Next.

  4. On the Domain Selection panel, select the domain to which the hosts that you want to configure belong:

    Selecting domains

    The Available domains pane lists all the domains that are present in the Windows network neighborhood.

    Move the appropriate name from the Available domains list to the Selected domains list, either by double-clicking it or using the arrow button.

    Adding a domain

    If the domain name that you require is not displayed, click Add domain. This displays a dialog that lets you specify the domain name. Click Add to add the name to the Selected domains list.

    Click Next.

  5. On the Host Selection panel, select the required hosts:

    Selecting hosts

    The Available hosts pane lists the hosts that are present in the specified domain.

    Move the appropriate host from the Available hosts list to the Selected hosts list, either by double-clicking it or using the arrow button. Use the Shift key with the up or down arrow keys to select multiple hosts.

    Adding a host

    If the host name you require is not displayed, click Add host. In the Add Host dialog specify the required host name or IP in the Host Name field. Click Add to add the name to the Selected hosts list.

    After you have selected a host name, the Configure button is enabled. ClickConfigure to proceed with configuring the VxSAS service.

  6. After the configuration completes, the Configuration Results page displays whether or not the operation was successful. If the operation was not successful, the page displays the details on why the account update failed, along with the possible reasons for failure and recommendations on getting over the failure.

    When configuring the VxSAS service for Volume Replicator in a firewall setup, the VxSAS wizard may not be able to configure the machines that are across the firewall, although the Host Selection dialog may list these nodes. In this case, configure the VxSAS service locally on the machines that are across the firewall.

    Click Back to change any information you had provided earlier.

  7. Click Finish to exit the wizard.