Veritas InfoScale™ 7.3.1 Installation Guide - AIX

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Product(s): InfoScale & Storage Foundation (7.3.1)
  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

VCS hardware requirements

Table: Hardware requirements for a VCS cluster lists the hardware requirements for a VCS cluster.

Table: Hardware requirements for a VCS cluster

Item

Description

DVD drive

One drive in a system that can communicate to all the nodes in the cluster.

Disks

Typical configurations require that the applications are configured to use shared disks/storage to enable migration of applications between systems in the cluster.

The SFHA I/O fencing feature requires that all data and coordinator disks support SCSI-3 Persistent Reservations (PR).

Note:

SFHA also supports non-SCSI3 server-based fencing configuration in virtual environments that do not support SCSI-3 PR-compliant storage.

Ethernet controllers

In addition to the built-in public Ethernet controller, VCS requires at least one more Ethernet interface per system. Veritas recommends two additional interfaces.

You can also configure aggregated interfaces.

Veritas recommends that you turn off the spanning tree on the LLT switches, and set port-fast on.

Fibre Channel or SCSI host bus adapters

Typical VCS configuration requires at least one SCSI or Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapter per system for shared data disks.

RAM

Each VCS node requires at least 256 megabytes.