Veritas Access Installation Guide

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Product(s): Access (7.4.1)
Platform: Linux
  1. Introducing Veritas Access
    1.  
      About Veritas Access
  2. Licensing in Veritas Access
    1.  
      About Veritas Access product licensing
  3. System requirements
    1.  
      Important release information
    2. System requirements
      1. Linux requirements
        1.  
          Operating system RPM installation requirements and operating system patching
        2.  
          Kernel RPMs that are required to be installed with exact predefined RPM versions
        3.  
          OL kernel RPMs that are required to be installed with exact predefined RPM versions
        4.  
          Required operating system RPMs for OL 7.4
        5.  
          Required operating system RPMs for RHEL 7.3
        6.  
          Required operating system RPMs for RHEL 7.4
      2.  
        Software requirements for installing Veritas Access in a VMware ESXi environment
      3.  
        Hardware requirements for installing Veritas Access virtual machines
      4.  
        Management Server Web browser support
      5.  
        Supported NetBackup versions
      6.  
        Supported OpenStack versions
      7.  
        Supported Oracle versions and host operating systems
      8.  
        Supported IP version 6 Internet standard protocol
    3. Network and firewall requirements
      1.  
        NetBackup ports
      2.  
        OpenDedup ports and disabling the iptable rules
      3.  
        CIFS protocols and firewall ports
    4.  
      Maximum configuration limits
  4. Preparing to install Veritas Access
    1.  
      Overview of the installation process
    2.  
      Hardware requirements for the nodes
    3.  
      Connecting the network hardware
    4. About obtaining IP addresses
      1.  
        About calculating IP address requirements
      2.  
        Reducing the number of IP addresses required at installation time
    5.  
      About checking the storage configuration
  5. Deploying virtual machines in VMware ESXi for Veritas Access installation
    1.  
      Setting up networking in VMware ESXi
    2.  
      Creating a datastore for the boot disk and LUNs
    3.  
      Creating a virtual machine for Veritas Access installation
  6. Installing and configuring a cluster
    1.  
      Installation overview
    2.  
      Summary of the installation steps
    3.  
      Before you install
    4. Installing the operating system on each node of the cluster
      1.  
        About the driver node
      2.  
        Installing the operating system on the target Veritas Access cluster
      3.  
        Installing the Oracle Linux operating system on the target Veritas Access cluster
    5. Installing Veritas Access on the target cluster nodes
      1.  
        Installing and configuring the Veritas Access software on the cluster
      2.  
        Veritas Access Graphical User Interface
    6. About managing the NICs, bonds, and VLAN devices
      1.  
        Selecting the public NICs
      2.  
        Selecting the private NICs
      3.  
        Excluding a NIC
      4.  
        Including a NIC
      5.  
        Creating a NIC bond
      6.  
        Removing a NIC bond
      7.  
        Removing a NIC from the bond list
    7. About VLAN tagging
      1.  
        Creating a VLAN device
      2.  
        Removing a VLAN device
      3.  
        Limitations of VLAN tagging
    8.  
      Replacing an Ethernet interface card
    9.  
      Configuring I/O fencing
    10.  
      About configuring Veritas NetBackup
    11.  
      About enabling kdump during an Veritas Access configuration
    12.  
      Reconfiguring the Veritas Access cluster name and network
    13.  
      Configuring a KMS server on the Veritas Access cluster
  7. Automating Veritas Access installation and configuration using response files
    1.  
      About response files
    2.  
      Performing a silent Veritas Access installation
    3.  
      Response file variables to install and configure Veritas Access
    4.  
      Sample response file for Veritas Access installation and configuration
  8. Displaying and adding nodes to a cluster
    1.  
      About the Veritas Access installation states and conditions
    2.  
      Displaying the nodes in the cluster
    3.  
      Before adding new nodes in the cluster
    4.  
      Adding a node to the cluster
    5.  
      Adding a node in mixed mode environment
    6.  
      Deleting a node from the cluster
    7.  
      Shutting down the cluster nodes
  9. Upgrading Veritas Access and operating system
    1.  
      Upgrading the operating system and Veritas Access
  10. Upgrading Veritas Access using a rolling upgrade
    1.  
      About the rolling upgrades
    2.  
      Supported rolling upgrade paths for upgrades on RHEL and Oracle Linux
    3.  
      Performing a rolling upgrade using the installer
  11. Uninstalling Veritas Access
    1.  
      Before you uninstall Veritas Access
    2. Uninstalling Veritas Access using the installer
      1.  
        Removing Veritas Access 7.4.1 RPMs
      2.  
        Running uninstall from the Veritas Access 7.4.1 disc
  12. Appendix A. Installation reference
    1.  
      Installation script options
  13. Appendix B. Configuring the secure shell for communications
    1.  
      Manually configuring passwordless SSH
    2.  
      Setting up the SSH and the RSH connections
  14. Appendix C. Manual deployment of Veritas Access
    1.  
      Deploying Veritas Access manually on a two-node cluster in a non-SSH environment
    2.  
      Enabling internal sudo user communication in Veritas Access

About obtaining IP addresses

The Veritas Access installation process lets you configure IP addresses for 1 to 20 nodes. The default is two nodes.

Note:

You can configure either IPv4 addresses or IPv6 addresses (depending on what you use when installing Veritas Access), but not both. Do not use IP addresses starting with 172.16.X.X either as physical IP addresses or virtual IP addresses since this range of IP addresses are used for the private network.

You need to obtain physical IP addresses, virtual IP addresses, and a netmask for the chosen public network from the network administrator in charge of the facility where the cluster is located. All IP addresses (both physical and virtual) must be part of the same subnet and use the same netmask as the node's access IP.

By design, the installer does not support the use of the localhost (127.0.0.1) IP address during installation

Note:

Netmask is used for IPv4 addresses. Prefix is used for IPv6 addresses. Accepted ranges for prefixes are 0-128 (integers) for IPv6 addresses.

The information you obtained from the network administrator is used to configure the following:

  • Physical IP addresses

  • Virtual IP addresses

  • Console IP address

  • Replication IP address (optional)

  • IP address for the default gateway

  • IP address for the Domain Name System (DNS) server

  • DNS domain name

  • IP address for the Network Time Protocol (NTP) server (optional)

  • Virtual IP address for Veritas NetBackup (optional)