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Veritas InfoScale™ 8.0 Support for Containers - Linux

Last Published: 2021-12-21

Product(s): InfoScale & Storage Foundation (8.0)

Platform: Linux

Using web console of OperatorHub

Complete the following steps to install InfoScale operator .

Connect to the OpenShift console and access the Catalog menu.
In the left frame, click Operators > OperatorHub. You can select and install the operator here.
Enter InfoScale in All Items. The InfoScale Operator is displayed.
Select the Operator and click Install in the following screen.
In the following screen, select infoscale-vtas in Installed Namespace and Manual in Update approval.
Note:
Veritas recommends these configurations. You can select any other Namespace (including openshift-operators) for installation. Selecting Manual as the Install plan avoids automatic updates of the operator.
Click Install. InfoScale installation begins as under.
In the left frame, select Operators > Installed Operators. In the following screen, click Upgrade available for infoscale-operator.
In the screen that opens; In Review manual InstallPlan, click Preview InstallPlan followed by Approve as under. Installation begins.
Wait till installation is complete. Cert-manager, Special Resource Operator, and Node Feature Discovery Operator along with InfoScale SDS operator are installed in infoscale-vtas or the namespace you provide. Cert-manager, Special Resource Operator, and Node Feature Discovery Operator are the dependencies for InfoScale installation. If these dependencies are already installed in infoscale-vtas or openshift-operators, installation is skipped.
In the left frame, select Operators > Installed Operators. Check if Status of all Operators is Succeeded as under.
After all these Operators are installed successfully, click NodeFeatureDiscovery in Provided APIs.
Note:
If NFD instance is already created, go to step 16.
In NodeFeatureDiscovery, click Create NodeFeatureDiscovery in the upper-right corner of the screen.
In the CreateNodeDiscovery screen, click YAML view in Configure via:.
- In metadata, change namespace to infoscale-vtas.
- Optionally, in spec:operand, change namespace to infoscale-vtas.
Click Create to create Node Feature Discovery instance.
After a successful creation of Node Feature Discovery, click Workloads > Pods in the left frame. Review names of the listed pods. Node Feature Discovery must be created on all nodes and is indicated by a prefix nfd.
Click Operators > Installed Operators in the left frame. You can now create an InfoScale cluster. Click InfoScale Cluster in Provided APIs.
Click Create InfoScaleCluster in the upper-right corner of your screen. The following screen opens.
Enter Name for the cluster and click InfoScale Cluster Information. Enter information about the nodes here.
Enter Node name for at least two nodes. Optionally, you can enter IP addresses of nodes in Node IPs and the device path of the disk that you want to exclude from the InfoScale disk group in Exclude-device list. For each node, you must add two IP addresses.
Note:
OpenShift cluster must have at least two nodes as minimum two nodes are needed to form a cluster.
To add more nodes, click Add InfoScale Cluster Information. You can add up to 16 nodes.
Do not enter any information in Image Registry, Telemetry Server port, and Telemetry Server IP or Hostname. Skip these fields.
Click Create to create an InfoScale cluster.
Wait till the cluster is created. Click Workload > Pods in the left frame. Review the name of the Node and Status in output similar to the following output. Status of the node must be 'Running'
Click any of driver containers. The following screen opens.
Click Terminal and run
/etc/vx/bin/vxclustadm nidmap.
Nodes are listed on screen. The status must be 'Joined'

After a successful deployment of InfoScale, diskgroup gets automatically created.