InfoScale™ 9.0 Installation and Upgrade Guide - Windows

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Product(s): InfoScale & Storage Foundation (9.0)
Platform: Windows
  1. Preinstallation and planning
    1.  
      About the Arctera InfoScale product suite
    2.  
      Supported hardware and software
    3.  
      Disk space requirements
    4.  
      Installation requirements
    5.  
      Requirements for installing InfoScale Storage in a Microsoft Failover Cluster
    6.  
      Recommendations and best practices
    7. About InfoScale licenses
      1.  
        Licensing notes
      2.  
        vxlicrep command
      3.  
        About Arctera License Audit Tool
    8.  
      About telemetry data collection in InfoScale
    9.  
      About InfoScale and UEFI Secure Boot
  2. Installing the Arctera InfoScale products
    1.  
      About installing the InfoScale products
    2.  
      About the co-existence of InfoScale products
    3.  
      Installing the server components using the installation wizard
    4.  
      Applying the selected installation and product options to multiple systems
    5.  
      Installing the server components using the command-line installer
    6.  
      Parameters for Setup.exe
    7.  
      Available product options and supported DMP DSMs
    8.  
      Registering the InfoScale Storage resource DLLs
    9.  
      Installing the client components
    10.  
      Configure Key Management Server (KMS) for volume encryption
  3. Upgrading the InfoScale products
    1. Preparing the systems for an upgrade
      1.  
        About the supported upgrade paths and the supported minimum product versions
      2.  
        General preparations
      3.  
        Recommendations and considerations for product upgrade
    2. Performing the product upgrade
      1. Upgrading SFW or SFW Basic in a non-clustered environment
        1.  
          Preparing the primary site for upgrade in a non-clustered SFW environment
      2. Upgrading SFW or SFW Basic in a Windows Server Failover Cluster environment
        1.  
          Preparing the secondary site for upgrade in a Windows Server Failover Cluster environment
        2.  
          Failing over application to secondary site
        3.  
          Preparing the primary site for upgrade in a Windows Server Failover Cluster environment
      3.  
        Upgrading VCS
      4. Upgrading SFW HA
        1.  
          Preparing the primary and secondary sites for upgrade in a Volume Replicator environment
        2.  
          Associating the replication logs and starting the replication
        3.  
          Re-enabling Volume Replicator in a VCS cluster
      5.  
        Upgrading DMP
    3.  
      About transitioning between the InfoScale products
  4. Performing the post upgrade tasks
    1.  
      Deployment scenarios and applicable post upgrade tasks
    2.  
      Re-enabling Volume Replicator in a non-clustered environment
    3.  
      Re-enabling Volume Replicator in a Microsoft failover cluster environment
    4.  
      Reconnecting DMP DSM paths after the upgrade
    5.  
      Reconfiguring the Veritas InfoScale Messaging Service
    6.  
      Importing the configured rules
    7.  
      Upgrading clusters for stronger security
    8.  
      Reinstalling the custom agents
    9.  
      Including custom resources
  5. Administering the InfoScale product installation
    1.  
      Adding or removing product options
    2.  
      Managing InfoScale licenses
    3.  
      Managing the Arctera Telemetry Collector
    4.  
      Repairing an InfoScale product installation
    5.  
      About reinstalling InfoScale products
  6. Uninstalling the InfoScale products
    1.  
      About uninstalling the InfoScale products
    2.  
      Uninstalling the InfoScale products using the installation wizard
  7. Performing application upgrades in an InfoScale environment
    1. Upgrading Microsoft SQL Server
      1. Upgrading to later versions of SQL Server
        1.  
          Upgrading SQL Server on the first cluster node
        2.  
          Upgrading SQL Server on additional failover nodes
        3.  
          Creating the new SQL Server service group
    2. Upgrading Oracle
      1.  
        Performing the post upgrade tasks
      2.  
        Associating the updated Oracle database with the listener
      3. Configuring the Oracle database and listener to use the virtual IP address
        1.  
          Setting the dispatchers parameter in PFILE
        2.  
          Setting the dispatchers parameter in SPFILE
      4.  
        Configuring Oracle and listener services
      5.  
        Modifying the ServiceName attribute for the netlsnr resource
    3. Upgrading application service packs in an InfoScale environment
      1. Upgrading the SQL Server service packs
        1.  
          Upgrading SQL Server to a compatible service pack
  8. Appendix A. Services and ports
    1.  
      InfoScale ports and services
  9. Appendix B. Migrating from a third-party multi-pathing solution to DMP
    1.  
      Migrating from EMC PowerPath
    2. Migrating from Hitachi Dynamic Link Manager (HDLM)
      1.  
        Uninstalling HDLM in a non-clustered environment
      2.  
        Uninstalling HDLM in a clustered (MSCS or VCS) environment
    3.  
      Configuring DMP for Active/Active load balancing in a cluster

Upgrading VCS

This section describes the tasks to be performed to upgrade VCS.

Supported upgrade path: VCS to InfoScale Availability

Upgrade the DG version for primary and secondary site:

  • Via GUI: Right click DG and then click Upgrade.

  • Via CLI: vxdg -g<DynamicDiskGroupName> [-T <version>] upgrade

The upgrade tasks depend on whether or not replication is configured in your environment.

The following figure lists the tasks to be performed to upgrade VCS, where replication is not configured.

Note:

If you have installed InfoScale Storage on a machine where InfoScale Availability co-exists, then before you begin to upgrade the product, you must run the BackupRestoreUtil.exe using Backup_HA.xml as an input parameter and then uninstall InfoScale Availability.

After the product upgrade is complete, you must install InfoScale Availability and then run the BackupRestoreUtil.exe using Restore_HA.xml as an input parameter.

To run the BackupRestoreUtil.exe, using the command prompt navigate to the installation media for InfoScale and point to the following location:

Installer>BackupRestoreUtil.exe

Figure: VCS upgrade tasks

VCS upgrade tasks
References

Task

References

1

See Preparing the systems for an upgrade.

2

Take the service groups offline on all nodes.

Use the following command:

hagrp -offline service_group -sys system

3

See Installing the server components using the installation wizard.

See Installing the server components using the command-line installer.

4

See Deployment scenarios and applicable post upgrade tasks.

5

Bring the service group online.

Use the following command:

hagrp -online service_group -sys system

 

Upgrade the DG version

  • Via GUI: Right click DG and then click Upgrade.

  • Via CLI: vxdg -g<DynamicDiskGroupName> [-T <version>] upgrade

The following figure lists the tasks to be performed to upgrade VCS, where replication is configured.

Figure: VCS upgrade tasks in a replicated cluster

VCS upgrade tasks in a replicated cluster
References

Task

References

1

See Preparing the systems for an upgrade.

2

Refer to the 3rd party replication technology-specific documentation

3

Take the service groups offline on all nodes.

Use the following command:

hagrp -offline service_group -sys system

4

See Installing the server components using the installation wizard.

See Installing the server components using the command-line installer.

5

See Deployment scenarios and applicable post upgrade tasks.

6

Refer to the 3rd party replication technology-specific documentation

7

Bring the service group online.

Use the following command:

hagrp -online service_group -sys system

 

Upgrade the DG version

  • Via GUI: Right click DG and then click Upgrade.

  • Via CLI: vxdg -g<DynamicDiskGroupName> [-T <version>] upgrade