Veritas InfoScale 7.3.1 Installation and Upgrade Guide - Windows

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Product(s): InfoScale & Storage Foundation (7.3.1)
Platform: Windows
  1. Preinstallation and planning
    1.  
      About the Veritas InfoScale product suite
    2.  
      Supported hardware and software
    3.  
      Disk space requirements
    4.  
      Installation requirements
    5.  
      Requirements for installing InfoScale Storage in a Microsoft Failover Cluster
    6.  
      Recommendations and best practices
    7. About InfoScale licenses
      1.  
        Licensing notes
      2.  
        vxlicrep command
  2. Installing the Veritas InfoScale products
    1.  
      About installing the InfoScale products
    2.  
      About the co-existence of InfoScale products
    3.  
      Installing the server components using the installation wizard
    4.  
      Applying the selected installation and product options to multiple systems
    5.  
      Installing the server components using the command-line installer
    6.  
      Parameters for Setup.exe
    7.  
      Available product options and supported DMP DSMs
    8.  
      Registering the InfoScale Storage resource DLLs
    9.  
      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 upgrade in a Windows Server Failover Cluster environment
        2.  
          Failing over application to secondary site
        3.  
          Preparing the primary site for upgrade in a Windows Server Failover Cluster environment
      3.  
        Upgrading VCS
      4. Upgrading SFW HA
        1.  
          Preparing the primary and secondary sites for upgrade 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 DMP
    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 Microsoft failover cluster environment
    4.  
      Reconnecting DMP DSM paths after the upgrade
    5.  
      Reconfiguring the Veritas InfoScale Messaging Service
    6.  
      Importing the configured rules
    7.  
      Upgrading clusters for stronger security
    8.  
      Reinstalling the custom agents
    9.  
      Including custom resources
  5. Administering the InfoScale product installation
    1.  
      Adding or removing product options
    2.  
      Managing InfoScale licenses
    3.  
      Repairing an InfoScale product installation
    4.  
      About reinstalling InfoScale products
  6. Uninstalling the InfoScale products
    1.  
      About uninstalling the InfoScale products
    2.  
      Uninstalling the InfoScale products using the installation wizard
  7. Performing application upgrades in an InfoScale environment
    1. Upgrading Microsoft SQL Server
      1. 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 2010 to a service pack
      2. Upgrading the SQL Server service packs
        1.  
          Upgrading SQL Server 2012 or SQL Server 2014 or SQL Server 2016 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 a third-party multi-pathing solution to DMP
    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 DMP for Active/Active load balancing in a cluster

Installation requirements

Before you install an InfoScale product, ensure that all its installation requirements are met. The following table lists the requirements for each InfoScale product.

Table: Installation prerequisites

Pre-requisites

Veritas InfoScale Foundation

Veritas InfoScale Availability

Veritas InfoScale Storage

Veritas InfoScale Enterprise

Patches and hotfixes

Ensure that the latest Microsoft Windows updates are installed on the systems.

The latest updates are required for successfully installing Microsoft Visual C++ 2015 Redistributable-x64. The product installation fails if Microsoft Visual C++ 2015 Redistributable-x64 is not installed.

X

Firewall and port settings

Spyware monitoring and removal software is disabled

The ports and services that are used during installation for both, inbound and outbound communication are enabled

For a list of required ports and services,

See InfoScale ports and services.

System requirements

Three network adapters are available

X

X

Minimum one IP address that is not assigned by Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) is available

X

X

At least two IO paths from the server to the storage array for load balancing

X

General requirements

Microsoft Failover Cluster is configured

(Applicable only if you plan to configure a Microsoft Failover Cluster)

X

X

X

Microsoft .NET Framework 4.5 is installed (This requirement applies to both, server as well as client-only components.)

Computer Browser Service is enabled

Microsoft Windows Service (WMI) is activated

No parallel installations, live updates, or Microsoft Windows updates are in progress

Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 SP1 (x64) and the Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 SP1 (x86) re-distributable package is installed on the systems where you would want to launch the client consoles (VEA, Java Console, SCC etc)

Permission requirements

The user account is included as a domain user and has local administrators privileges on all the systems

The user account has write permissions for the Active Directory objects corresponding to all the systems

The user account has administrative privileges on all the systems to load and unload device drivers

Network requirements

All systems are in the same domain

Remote systems are accessible over the network and the user account has local administrative privileges to all the systems

Trust relationship is set up for systems in different domains

(Applicable only if you plan to configure a disaster recovery setup in which the systems at the primary site and the secondary site are in different domains)

X

X

For IPv4 network, the required IP addresses are available

For IPv6 network, the IP address configuration is "stateless automatic", the IP address format is "Global unicast" or "Unique localcast", and the prefix is advertised

The system is a part of Windows Active Directory domain

DNS Service is available

DMP DSM requirements

The host has an HBA (host bus adapter) port for each path to the SAN switch

X

The host has one SCSI or fiber cable per host bus adapter port

X

In case of iSCSI, each host bus adapter port has a unique SCSI ID

X

Only one path is connected during product installation

X

The Windows Storport driver is installed

X

Correct hardware drivers for the DMP DSMs are installed

X

The MPIO server feature is enabled

X

No other third-party DSMs are installed for the same array

X