Veritas InfoScale™ 7.3.1 Installation Guide - Linux

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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 RPM
  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 and SF Sybase CE hardware requirements
        4.  
          VCS hardware 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 up shared storage: SCSI
        2.  
          Setting up shared storage: Fibre Channel
      8.  
        Synchronizing time settings on cluster nodes
      9.  
        Setting the kernel.hung_task_panic tunable
      10. Planning the installation setup for SF Oracle RAC and SF Sybase CE 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
        6.  
          Setting the kernel.panic tunable
        7.  
          Configuring the I/O scheduler
  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.  
        Verifying Veritas InfoScale RPMs
      2.  
        About installing Veritas InfoScale using operating system-specific methods
      3. Installing Veritas InfoScale using Kickstart
        1.  
          Sample Kickstart configuration file
      4.  
        Installing Veritas InfoScale using yum
      5. Installing Veritas InfoScale using the Red Hat Satellite server
        1.  
          Using Red Hat Satellite server to install Veritas InfoScale products
    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.  
        Removing VxFS file systems
      2.  
        Removing rootability
      3. Moving volumes to disk partitions
        1.  
          Moving volumes onto disk partitions using VxVM
      4.  
        Removing the Replicated Data Set
      5.  
        Uninstalling Veritas InfoScale RPMs using the installer
      6.  
        Removing license files (Optional)
      7.  
        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.  
        About the VRTSspt RPM troubleshooting tools
      3.  
        Incorrect permissions for root on remote system
      4.  
        Inaccessible system

Setting the kernel.hung_task_panic tunable

The topic applies to SFHA, SFCFSHA, and VCS.

By default, in the Linux kernel the kernel.hung_task_panic tunable is enabled and the kernel.hung_task_timeout_secs tunable is set to a default non-zero value.

To ensure that the node does not panic, the kernel.hung_task_panic tunable must be disabled. If kernel.hung_task_panic is enabled, then it causes the kernel to panic when any of the following kernel threads waits for more than the kernel.hung_task_timeout_secs value:

  • The vxfenconfig thread in the vxfen configuration path waits for GAB to seed.

  • The vxfenswap thread in the online coordinator disks replacement path waits for the snapshot of peer nodes of the new coordinator disks.

To disable the kernel.hung_task_panic tunable:

  • Set the kernel.hung_task_panic tunable to zero (0) in the /etc/sysctl.conf file. This step ensures that the change is persistent across node restarts.

  • Run the command on each node.

    # sysctl -w kernel.hung_task_panic=0

To verify the kernel.hung_task_panic tunable value, run the following command:

  • # sysctl -a | grep hung_task_panic