Veritas InfoScale™ 7.2 Installation Guide - AIX

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Product(s): InfoScale & Storage Foundation (7.2)
  1. Section I. Introduction to Veritas InfoScale
    1. Introducing Veritas InfoScale
      1.  
        About the Veritas InfoScale product suite
      2.  
        About Veritas InfoScale Foundation
      3.  
        About Veritas InfoScale Storage
      4.  
        About Veritas InfoScale Availability
      5.  
        About Veritas InfoScale Enterprise
      6.  
        Components of the Veritas InfoScale product suite
    2. Licensing Veritas InfoScale
      1.  
        About Veritas InfoScale product licensing
      2.  
        Registering Veritas InfoScale using product license keys
      3.  
        Registering Veritas InfoScale product using keyless licensing
      4.  
        Updating your product licenses
      5.  
        Using the vxlicinstupgrade utility
      6.  
        About the VRTSvlic package
  2. Section II. Planning and preparation
    1. 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
        5.  
          Virtual I/O Server (VIOS) requirements
      4.  
        Supported operating systems and database versions
      5.  
        Number of nodes supported
    2. 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 the SCSI identifier value
        2.  
          Setting up Fibre Channel
      8.  
        Synchronizing time settings on cluster nodes
      9.  
        Configuring LLT interconnects to use Jumbo Frames
      10. 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
      11.  
        Updating the SCSI reserve ODM attribute settings for VIOS
  3. Section III. Installation of Veritas InfoScale
    1. Installing Veritas InfoScale using the installer
      1.  
        Installing Veritas InfoScale using the installer
    2. Installing Veritas InfoScale using response files
      1. About response files
        1.  
          Syntax in the response file
      2.  
        Installing Veritas InfoScale using response files
      3.  
        Response file variables to install Veritas InfoScale
      4.  
        Sample response file for Veritas InfoScale installation
    3. Installing Veritas Infoscale using operating system-specific methods
      1.  
        About installing Veritas InfoScale using operating system-specific methods
      2. Installing Veritas InfoScale using NIM and the installer
        1.  
          Preparing the installation bundle on the NIM server
        2.  
          Installing Veritas InfoScale on the NIM client using SMIT on the NIM server
        3.  
          Installing Veritas InfoScale and the operating system on the NIM client using SMIT
    4. Completing the post installation tasks
      1.  
        Verifying product installation
      2.  
        Setting environment variables
      3.  
        Next steps after installation
  4. Section IV. Uninstallation of Veritas InfoScale
    1. Uninstalling Veritas InfoScale using the installer
      1. Preparing to uninstall a Veritas InfoScale product
        1.  
          Moving volumes to physical disks
      2.  
        Removing the Replicated Data Set
      3.  
        Uninstalling Veritas InfoScale filesets using the installer
      4.  
        Removing Storage Foundation products using SMIT
      5.  
        Removing the Storage Foundation for Databases (SFDB) repository
    2. Uninstalling Veritas InfoScale using response files
      1.  
        Uninstalling Veritas InfoScale using response files
      2.  
        Response file variables to uninstall Veritas InfoScale
      3.  
        Sample response file for Veritas InfoScale uninstallation
  5. Section V. 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.  
        Troubleshooting an installation on AIX
      3.  
        Incorrect permissions for root on remote system
      4.  
        Resource temporarily unavailable
      5.  
        Inaccessible system

Planning your network configuration

The following practices are recommended for a resilient network setup:

  • Configure the private cluster interconnect over multiple dedicated gigabit Ethernet links. All single point of failures such as network interface cards (NIC), switches, and interconnects should be eliminated.

  • The NICs used for the private cluster interconnect should have the same characteristics regarding speed, MTU, and full duplex on all nodes. Do not allow the NICs and switch ports to auto-negotiate speed.

  • Configure non-routable IP addresses for private cluster interconnects.

  • The default value for LLT peer inactivity timeout is 32 seconds.

    For SF Oracle RAC: The value should be set based on service availability requirements and the propagation delay between the cluster nodes in case of campus cluster setup. The LLT peer inactivity timeout value indicates the interval after which Veritas InfoScale on one node declares the other node in the cluster dead, if there is no network communication (heartbeat) from that node.

    The default value for the CSS miss-count in case of Veritas InfoScale is 600 seconds. The value of this parameter is much higher than the LLT peer inactivity timeout so that the two clusterwares, VCS and Oracle Clusterware, do not interfere with each other's decisions on which nodes should remain in the cluster in the event of network split-brain. Veritas I/O fencing is allowed to decide on the surviving nodes first, followed by Oracle Clusterware. The CSS miss-count value indicates the amount of time Oracle Clusterware waits before evicting another node from the cluster, when it fails to respond across the interconnect.

    For more information, see the Oracle Metalink document: 782148.1