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Storage Foundation and High Availability 7.4.2 Configuration and Upgrade Guide - AIX
Last Published:
2020-07-30
Product(s):
InfoScale & Storage Foundation (7.4.2)
Platform: AIX
- Section I. Introduction to SFHA
- Introducing Storage Foundation and High Availability
- Section II. Configuration of SFHA
- Preparing to configure
- Preparing to configure SFHA clusters for data integrity
- About planning to configure I/O fencing
- Setting up the CP server
- Planning your CP server setup
- Installing the CP server using the installer
- Configuring the CP server cluster in secure mode
- Setting up shared storage for the CP server database
- Configuring the CP server using the installer program
- Configuring the CP server manually
- Configuring CP server using response files
- Verifying the CP server configuration
- Configuring SFHA
- Configuring Storage Foundation High Availability using the installer
- Overview of tasks to configure SFHA using the product installer
- Required information for configuring Storage Foundation and High Availability Solutions
- Starting the software configuration
- Specifying systems for configuration
- Configuring the cluster name
- Configuring private heartbeat links
- Configuring the virtual IP of the cluster
- Configuring SFHA in secure mode
- Configuring a secure cluster node by node
- Adding VCS users
- Configuring SMTP email notification
- Configuring SNMP trap notification
- Configuring global clusters
- Completing the SFHA configuration
- About Veritas License Audit Tool
- Verifying and updating licenses on the system
- Configuring SFDB
- Configuring Storage Foundation High Availability using the installer
- Configuring SFHA clusters for data integrity
- Setting up disk-based I/O fencing using installer
- Setting up server-based I/O fencing using installer
- Setting up non-SCSI-3 I/O fencing in virtual environments using installer
- Setting up majority-based I/O fencing using installer
- Enabling or disabling the preferred fencing policy
- Manually configuring SFHA clusters for data integrity
- Setting up disk-based I/O fencing manually
- Setting up server-based I/O fencing manually
- Preparing the CP servers manually for use by the SFHA cluster
- Generating the client key and certificates manually on the client nodes
- Configuring server-based fencing on the SFHA cluster manually
- Configuring CoordPoint agent to monitor coordination points
- Verifying server-based I/O fencing configuration
- Setting up non-SCSI-3 fencing in virtual environments manually
- Setting up majority-based I/O fencing manually
- Performing an automated SFHA configuration using response files
- Performing an automated I/O fencing configuration using response files
- Configuring I/O fencing using response files
- Response file variables to configure disk-based I/O fencing
- Sample response file for configuring disk-based I/O fencing
- Response file variables to configure server-based I/O fencing
- Sample response file for configuring non-SCSI-3 I/O fencing
- Response file variables to configure non-SCSI-3 I/O fencing
- Response file variables to configure majority-based I/O fencing
- Sample response file for configuring majority-based I/O fencing
- Section III. Upgrade of SFHA
- Planning to upgrade SFHA
- About the upgrade
- Supported upgrade paths
- Considerations for upgrading SFHA to 7.4.2 on systems configured with an Oracle resource
- Preparing to upgrade SFHA
- Using Install Bundles to simultaneously install or upgrade full releases (base, maintenance, rolling patch), and individual patches
- Upgrading Storage Foundation and High Availability
- Performing a rolling upgrade of SFHA
- Performing a phased upgrade of SFHA
- About phased upgrade
- Performing a phased upgrade using the product installer
- Moving the service groups to the second subcluster
- Upgrading the operating system on the first subcluster
- Upgrading the first subcluster
- Preparing the second subcluster
- Activating the first subcluster
- Upgrading the operating system on the second subcluster
- Upgrading the second subcluster
- Finishing the phased upgrade
- Performing an automated SFHA upgrade using response files
- Performing post-upgrade tasks
- Optional configuration steps
- Recovering VVR if automatic upgrade fails
- Post-upgrade tasks when VCS agents for VVR are configured
- Resetting DAS disk names to include host name in FSS environments
- Upgrading disk layout versions
- Upgrading VxVM disk group versions
- Updating variables
- Setting the default disk group
- About enabling LDAP authentication for clusters that run in secure mode
- Verifying the Storage Foundation and High Availability upgrade
- Planning to upgrade SFHA
- Section IV. Post-installation tasks
- Section V. Adding and removing nodes
- Adding a node to SFHA clusters
- About adding a node to a cluster
- Before adding a node to a cluster
- Adding a node to a cluster using the Veritas InfoScale installer
- Adding the node to a cluster manually
- Adding a node using response files
- Configuring server-based fencing on the new node
- After adding the new node
- Adding nodes to a cluster that is using authentication for SFDB tools
- Updating the Storage Foundation for Databases (SFDB) repository after adding a node
- Removing a node from SFHA clusters
- Removing a node from a SFHA cluster
- Verifying the status of nodes and service groups
- Deleting the departing node from SFHA configuration
- Modifying configuration files on each remaining node
- Removing the node configuration from the CP server
- Removing security credentials from the leaving node
- Unloading LLT and GAB and removing Veritas InfoScale Availability or Enterprise on the departing node
- Updating the Storage Foundation for Databases (SFDB) repository after removing a node
- Removing a node from a SFHA cluster
- Adding a node to SFHA clusters
- Section VI. Configuration and upgrade reference
- Appendix A. Support for AIX Live Update
- Appendix B. Installation scripts
- Appendix C. SFHA services and ports
- Appendix D. Configuration files
- Appendix E. Configuring the secure shell or the remote shell for communications
- About configuring secure shell or remote shell communication modes before installing products
- Manually configuring passwordless ssh
- Setting up ssh and rsh connection using the installer -comsetup command
- Setting up ssh and rsh connection using the pwdutil.pl utility
- Restarting the ssh session
- Enabling rsh for AIX
- Appendix F. Sample SFHA cluster setup diagrams for CP server-based I/O fencing
- Appendix G. Changing NFS server major numbers for VxVM volumes
- Appendix H. Configuring LLT over UDP
- Using the UDP layer for LLT
- Manually configuring LLT over UDP using IPv4
- Broadcast address in the /etc/llttab file
- The link command in the /etc/llttab file
- The set-addr command in the /etc/llttab file
- Selecting UDP ports
- Configuring the netmask for LLT
- Configuring the broadcast address for LLT
- Sample configuration: direct-attached links
- Sample configuration: links crossing IP routers
- Using the UDP layer of IPv6 for LLT
- Manually configuring LLT over UDP using IPv6
Response file variables to add a node to a SFHA cluster
Table: Response file variables for adding a node to an SFHA cluster lists the response file variables that you can define to add a node to an SFHA cluster.
Table: Response file variables for adding a node to an SFHA cluster
Variable | Description |
|---|---|
$CFG{opt}{addnode} | Adds a node to an existing cluster. List or scalar: scalar Optional or required: required |
$CFG{newnodes} | Specifies the new nodes to be added to the cluster. List or scalar: list Optional or required: required |