Important Update: Cohesity Products Documentation

All Cohesity product documentation are now managed via the Cohesity Docs Portal: https://docs.cohesity.com/HomePage/Content/home.htm. Some documentation available here may not reflect the latest information or may no longer be accessible.

InfoScale™ 9.1 Installation Guide - Linux

Last Published:
Product(s): InfoScale & Storage Foundation (9.1)
Platform: Linux
  1. Section I. Planning and preparation
    1. Introducing Arctera InfoScale
      1.  
        About the InfoScale product suite
      2.  
        Components of the InfoScale product suite
      3.  
        About the co-existence of InfoScale products
    2. Licensing Arctera InfoScale
      1.  
        About Arctera InfoScale product licensing
      2.  
        About InfoScale Core Plus license meter
      3.  
        About telemetry data collection in InfoScale
      4.  
        Licensing notes
      5. About managing InfoScale licenses
        1.  
          About the vxlicinstupgrade utility
      6.  
        Generating license report with vxlicrep command
    3. 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
      4.  
        Supported operating systems and database versions
      5.  
        Number of nodes supported
      6.  
        Get the InfoScale cryptographic public keys (for Secure Boot-enabled systems)
    4. 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 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
        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
      11. Preparing for deployment in a Secure Boot environment
        1.  
          About enabling Secure Boot on InfoScale hosts
        2.  
          Enrolling the InfoScale public key
        3.  
          Considerations for working with InfoScale in a Secure Boot environment
  2. Section II. InfoScale product installation
    1. Installing Arctera InfoScale using the installer
      1.  
        Installing Arctera InfoScale using the installer
      2.  
        Installing or upgrading Arctera InfoScale by using the installer as a sudo user
      3.  
        Installing or upgrading Arctera InfoScale using the installer with the -yum option
      4.  
        Executive Order logging
    2. Installing Arctera InfoScale using response files
      1. About response files
        1.  
          Syntax in the response file
      2.  
        Installing InfoScale using response files
      3.  
        Response file variables to install Arctera InfoScale
      4.  
        Sample response files for Arctera InfoScale installation
    3. Installing Arctera InfoScale using operating system-specific methods
      1.  
        Verifying Arctera InfoScale RPMs
      2.  
        About installing InfoScale using operating system-specific methods
      3. Installing InfoScale using Kickstart
        1.  
          Sample Kickstart configuration file
      4.  
        Installing Arctera InfoScale using yum
      5. Installing InfoScale using the Red Hat Satellite server
        1.  
          Using Red Hat Satellite server to install InfoScale products
    4. Completing the post installation tasks
      1.  
        Verifying product installation
      2.  
        Setting environment variables
      3.  
        Commands to manage the Arctera Telemetry Collector on your server
      4.  
        Next steps after installation
  3. Section III. InfoScale product uninstallation
    1. Uninstalling Arctera 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 InfoScale RPMs using the installer
      6.  
        Removing the Storage Foundation for Databases (SFDB) repository
    2. Uninstalling Arctera InfoScale using response files
      1.  
        Uninstalling InfoScale using response files
      2.  
        Response file variables to uninstall Arctera InfoScale
      3.  
        Sample response file for InfoScale uninstallation
  4. Section IV. 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
    4. Appendix D. Managing InfoScale digital signatures (Secure Boot environment)
      1.  
        Verify an InfoScale module signature key
      2.  
        Removing the InfoScale public key

Components of the InfoScale product suite

Each InfoScale product consists of one or more components. Each component within a product offers a unique capability that you can configure for use in your environment.

Table: InfoScale product suite lists the components of each InfoScale product.

Table: InfoScale product suite

Product

Description

Components

InfoScale Foundation

Delivers a comprehensive solution for heterogeneous online storage management while increasing storage utilization and enhancing storage I/O path availability

Storage Foundation (SF) Standard (entry-level features)

InfoScale Storage

Enables organizations to provision and manage storage independently of hardware types or locations while delivering predictable quality of service (QoS), higher performance, and better return on investment (RoI)

  • Storage Foundation (SF) Enterprise including replication

  • Storage Foundation Cluster File System (SFCFS)

InfoScale Availability

Helps keep an organization's information and critical business services up and running on-premises and across globally dispersed data centers

Cluster Server (VCS) including HA/DR

InfoScale Enterprise

Addresses enterprise IT service continuity needs; provides resiliency and software-defined storage for critical services across datacenter infrastructure

  • Cluster Server (VCS) including HA/DR

  • Storage Foundation (SF) Enterprise including Replication

  • Storage Foundation and High Availability (SFHA)

  • Storage Foundation Cluster File System High Availability (SFCFSHA)

  • Storage Foundation for Oracle RAC (SF Oracle RAC)