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InfoScale™ 9.1 Storage Foundation Configuration and Upgrade Guide - Linux

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Product(s): InfoScale & Storage Foundation (9.1)
Platform: Linux
  1. Section I. Introduction and configuration of Storage Foundation
    1. Introducing Storage Foundation
      1. About Storage Foundation
        1.  
          About Veritas Replicator Option
      2.  
        About InfoScale Operations Manager
      3.  
        About Services and Operations Readiness Tools (SORT)
    2. Configuring Storage Foundation
      1.  
        Configuring Storage Foundation using the installer
      2. Configuring SF manually
        1.  
          Configuring Veritas Volume Manager
        2. Configuring Veritas File System
          1.  
            Loading and unloading the file system module
      3.  
        Configuring SFDB
  2. Section II. Upgrading Storage Foundation
    1. Planning to upgrade Storage Foundation
      1.  
        About the upgrade
      2.  
        Supported upgrade paths
      3. Preparing to upgrade SF
        1.  
          Getting ready for the upgrade
        2.  
          Creating backups
        3.  
          Determining if the root disk is encapsulated
        4. Pre-upgrade planning when VVR is configured
          1.  
            Considerations for upgrading SF to 7.4 or later on systems with an ongoing or a paused replication
          2. Planning an upgrade from the previous VVR version
            1.  
              Planning and upgrading VVR to use IPv6 as connection protocol
        5.  
          Upgrading the array support
      4.  
        Using Install Bundles to simultaneously install or upgrade full releases (base, maintenance, rolling patch), and individual patches
    2. Upgrading Storage Foundation
      1. Upgrading Storage Foundation from previous versions to 9.1
        1.  
          Upgrading Storage Foundation using the product installer
      2. Upgrading Volume Replicator
        1. Upgrading VVR without disrupting replication
          1.  
            Upgrading VVR sites with InfoScale 7.4.1 or later
          2.  
            Post-upgrade tasks for VVR sites
      3.  
        Upgrading SFDB
    3. Performing an automated SF upgrade using response files
      1.  
        Upgrading SF using response files
      2.  
        Response file variables to upgrade SF
      3.  
        Sample response file for SF upgrade
    4. Upgrading InfoScale using YUM
      1.  
        About support for InfoScale upgrade using YUM
      2.  
        Upgrade InfoScale using YUM
    5. Downgrading InfoScale using YUM
      1.  
        About support for InfoScale downgrade using YUM
      2.  
        Downgrade InfoScale using YUM
    6. Performing post-upgrade tasks
      1.  
        Optional configuration steps
      2.  
        Re-joining the backup boot disk group into the current disk group
      3.  
        Reverting to the backup boot disk group after an unsuccessful upgrade
      4.  
        Recovering VVR if automatic upgrade fails
      5.  
        Resetting DAS disk names to include host name in FSS environments
      6.  
        Upgrading disk layout versions
      7.  
        Upgrading VxVM disk group versions
      8.  
        Updating variables
      9.  
        Setting the default disk group
      10.  
        Verifying the Storage Foundation upgrade
  3. Section III. Post configuration tasks
    1. Performing configuration tasks
      1.  
        Switching on Quotas
      2.  
        Enabling DMP support for native devices
      3. About configuring authentication for SFDB tools
        1.  
          Configuring vxdbd for SFDB tools authentication
  4. Section IV. Configuration and upgrade reference
    1. Appendix A. Installation scripts
      1.  
        Installation script options
      2.  
        About using the postcheck option
    2. Appendix B. Configuring the secure shell or the remote shell for communications
      1.  
        About configuring secure shell or remote shell communication modes before installing products
      2.  
        Manually configuring passwordless ssh
      3.  
        Setting up ssh and rsh connection using the installer -comsetup command
      4.  
        Setting up ssh and rsh connection using the pwdutil.pl utility
      5.  
        Restarting the ssh session
      6.  
        Enabling rsh for Linux

Downgrade InfoScale using YUM

This topic describes the procedure to downgrade InfoScale using YUM. For details about yum repository configuration, refer to the RHEL documentation.

Before you proceed, make sure to review the requirements and limitations of using this method.

See About support for InfoScale downgrade using YUM.

Note:

Perform the following procedure on each InfoScale host in your configuration where you want to roll back the upgrade. Arctera recommends that you roll back the OS and the InfoScale RPMs separately, if required, and reboot the host immediately afterwards.

To downgrade InfoScale using YUM

  1. Configure an InfoScale repository on the host, by performing the following tasks sequentially:

    • Create a repository file (.repo) under /etc/yum.repos.d for the InfoScale version to which you want to downgrade.

      # cat /etc/yum.repos.d/infoscale<version>.repo

    • Add the following contents to the repository file:

      [repo-InfoScale<version>]
name=Repository for InfoScale <version>
baseurl=file:///<imageDirectory>/rpms/
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///<imageDirectory>/rpms/RPM-GPG-KEY-veritas-infoscale

      The values for the baseurl attribute can start with http://, ftp://, or file:///. The URL you choose should be able to access the repodata directory.

    • Save the changes and exit the file editor.

    • Update the yum repository.

      # yum repoList

      # yum updateinfo

  2. Roll back the InfoScale upgrade, by performing the following tasks sequentially:

    • Find out the transaction ID that was used for the InfoScale upgrade.

      # yum history

      The output resembles:

      Updating Subscription Management repositories.
ID | Command line | Date and time    | Action(s) | Altered
17 | update VRTS* | 2025-11-03 21:34 | Upgrade   | 39 E<

    • Roll back the transaction.

      # yum history undo <transactionID>

      For example:

      # yum history undo 17

  3. Gracefully reboot the host.

    # shutdown -r now