Veritas InfoScale™ 8.0.2 Installation Guide - Linux

Installing or upgrading Veritas InfoScale using the installer with the -yum option

Starting with InfoScale 8.0, you can use yum commands with Common Product Installer and install or upgrade InfoScale 8.0 running on Red Hat and Oracle Linux.

Yum is a command-line package management tool that you can use for installing, updating, removing, and managing the InfoScale package. Yum performs dependency resolution when install, update, and remove the InfoScale package. Yum can also manage the package from installed repositories in the system or from the InfoScale .rpm packages. The following new options are supported for the installation and upgrade of InfoScale:

Before you begin

Before you begin the configuration of yum, and installation or upgrade of InfoScale, ensure that you:

Installation or upgrade

There are two ways of yum based installation or upgrade. You can either use the -yum option with installer, or use direct/manual yum method.

Using the yum option with installer

The following is the syntax and examples for installing InfoScale using the yum installer option. After running any of the following yum installation commands, select the Install a product or Upgrade a product option from the menu displays by installer script.

Syntax:

./installer -yum [repo_name | repo_url]

Example for yum installation with repository name:

./installer -yum repo-Infoscale802

Example for yum installation using repository URL:

./installer -yum http://xyz.com/rhel8_x86_64/rpms/

Using -yum and -patch_path options together with -matrixpath

The following is the syntax and examples for performing patch installation or patch upgrade along with GA upgrade of InfoScale with RPM files:

Syntax:

./installer -yum [repo_name | repo_url] -patch_path [repo_name | repo_url] -matrixpath

Example for performing patch installation or patch upgrade

./installer -yum repo-Infoscale802 -patch_path repo-Infoscale802P -matrixpath /root/patch_matrix

When you run this command, you need to enter the release matrix data path in the command. You must use the matrixpath option when there is no SORT connectivity on a machine and the -yum and -patch_path options are used together. As installer has pre-checks on the release matrix data, if a correct release matrix data path is not provided, the patch installation or patch upgrade may fail.

Direct or manual yum installation

Ensure that you set the yum repository manually on each node of the cluster before running the yum install command.

For more details on Installing Veritas InfoScale using yum, refer to the topic:

Using Direct or manual yum upgrade

You can upgrade InfoScale by manually configuring yum repositories on each node of a cluster, and then run the yum upgrade command. You need to use the upgradestop and upgradestart options for manual yum upgrade. The following are the syntax and examples:

Syntax for upgradestop:

/opt/VRTS/install/installer -upgradestop

Use the upgradestop option before you begin to upgrade InfoScale using the yum upgrade command. This command performs required pre-upgrade checks and backups all the configuration files before the upgrade.

Syntax for upgradestart:

/opt/VRTS/install/installer -upgradestart

Use the upgradestart option to start the services after upgrading InfoScale rpms using yum such as starting CVM agents, registering extra types.cf files, and updating protocol version.

After successful completion of yum upgrade ensure that cluster is up and running. You may verify the CVM protocol version using vxdctl protocolversion command and VCS protocol version as follows:

/opt/VRTS/bin/haclus -value ProtocolNumber

Yum install or upgrade with response files

Yum based install or upgrade can be performed using either menu driven program or response-file.

The following are the sample response files:

Installation using -yum with reponame:

#
# Configuration Values:
#
our %CFG; 
$CFG{accepteula}=1;

	$CFG{opt}{install}=1;
$CFG{opt}{yum}="repo-InfoScale802";
$CFG{prod}="ENTERPRISE802";
$CFG{systems}=[ "dl380g10-10-vip17" ];
 
1;

Installation using -yum with repo URL:

#
# Configuration Values:
#
our %CFG;
 
$CFG{accepteula}=1;

$CFG{opt}{install}=1;
$CFG{opt}{yum}="http://xyz.com/rhel8_x86_64/rpms/";
$CFG{prod}="ENTERPRISE802";
$CFG{systems}=[ "dl380g10-10-vip17" ];
 
1;

Installation using -yum, -matrixpath and -patch_path:

#
# Configuration Values:
#
our %CFG;
 
$CFG{accepteula}=1;

$CFG{opt}{install}=1;
$CFG{opt}{matrixpath}="/root/patch_matrix/";
$CFG{opt}{patch_path}="repo-InfoScale802P";
$CFG{opt}{yum}="repo-InfoScale802";
$CFG{prod}="ENTERPRISE802";
$CFG{systems}=[ "dl380g10-10-vip17" ];
 
1;

Upgradestop before manual yum upgrade:

#
# Configuration Values:
#
our %CFG;
 
$CFG{opt}{gco}=1;
$CFG{opt}{stop}=1;
$CFG{opt}{upgradestop}=1;
$CFG{opt}{vr}=1;
$CFG{prod}="ENTERPRISE802";
$CFG{systems}=[ "dl380g10-10-vip17","dl380g10-10-vip18" ];
$CFG{vcs_allowcomms}=1;
 
1;

Upgradestart after manual yum upgrade:

#
# Configuration Values:
#
our %CFG;
 
$CFG{opt}{gco}=1;
$CFG{opt}{start}=1;
$CFG{opt}{upgradestart}=1;
$CFG{opt}{vr}=1;
$CFG{prod}="ENTERPRISE802";
$CFG{systems}=[ "dl380g10-10-vip14" ];
$CFG{vcs_allowcomms}=1;
 
1;