Veritas InfoScale™ 8.0.2 Installation Guide - Linux

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Product(s): InfoScale & Storage Foundation (8.0.2)
Platform: Linux
  1. Section I. Planning and preparation
    1. Introducing Veritas InfoScale
      1.  
        About the Veritas InfoScale product suite
      2.  
        Components of the Veritas InfoScale product suite
      3.  
        About the co-existence of InfoScale products
    2. Licensing Veritas InfoScale
      1.  
        About Veritas 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
          3.  
            Planning the public network configuration for Oracle RAC
          4.  
            Planning the private network configuration for Oracle RAC
        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. Installation of Veritas InfoScale
    1. Installing Veritas InfoScale using the installer
      1.  
        Installing Veritas InfoScale using the installer
      2.  
        Installing or upgrading Veritas InfoScale by using the installer as a sudo user
      3.  
        Installing or upgrading Veritas InfoScale using the installer with the -yum option
      4.  
        Executive Order logging
    2. Installing Veritas 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 Veritas InfoScale
      4.  
        Sample response files for Veritas InfoScale installation
    3. Installing Veritas Infoscale using operating system-specific methods
      1.  
        Verifying Veritas InfoScale RPMs
      2.  
        About installing InfoScale using operating system-specific methods
      3. Installing InfoScale using Kickstart
        1.  
          Sample Kickstart configuration file
      4.  
        Installing Veritas 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 Veritas telemetry collector on your server
      4.  
        Next steps after installation
  3. Section III. Uninstallation of Veritas InfoScale
    1. Uninstalling Veritas 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 Veritas InfoScale using response files
      1.  
        Uninstalling InfoScale using response files
      2.  
        Response file variables to uninstall Veritas InfoScale
      3.  
        Sample response file for Veritas 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

Get the InfoScale cryptographic public keys (for Secure Boot-enabled systems)

This requirement is applicable only if you plan to deploy Veritas InfoScale on the systems where the Secure Boot feature is enabled.

InfoScale kernel modules are digitally signed using public-private key pairs. You must obtain the InfoScale cryptographic public keys and then enroll the keys on each system where you intend to install InfoScale. The operating system kernel validates the digital signatures and authenticates the integrity of the kernel modules. You must download and enroll the keys on each system before you install and configure InfoScale.

You can obtain the InfoScale public keys using any of the methods described here.

Download the public key from SORT

You can download the InfoScale public key directly from SORT.

To get the public key from SORT

  1. Download the public key from the following URL:

    https://sort.veritas.com/public/infoscale/keys/pubkey.der

  2. Validate the integrity of the file using the SHA256sum algorithm method.

    Run the following command:

    # sha256sum pubkey.der

    The command displays an output in the following format:

    hashvalue pubkey.der

    Here, hashvalue is an alpha numeric sequence that represents the SHA256 checksum and is unique to the public key file.

    For example,

    bd00eeb8b4c0e63f1062aa0d pubkey.der

    The hash value displayed here in the example is just for reference; the actual hash value for the file will vary.

  3. Compare the hash value with the SHA256sum hash value displayed on the following URL:

    https://sort.veritas.com/infoscale_key

    If the file hash values match, it confirms that the file is authentic and has not been tampered with.

    You can now import the file on the InfoScale nodes.

See Preparing for deployment in a Secure Boot environment.

Extract the public key from VRTSveki

You can retrieve the InfoScale public key from the VRTSveki rpm package that is included with the InfoScale software.

To extract the public key from VRTSveki

  1. Download the InfoScale software image.
  2. Locate and copy the VRTSveki rpm file to a temporary directory.

    The name of the VRTSveki rpm may vary depending on the InfoScale release version. For example, for version 8.0.2, the rpm file name is "VRTSveki-8.0.2.0000-RHEL8.x86_64.rpm".

  3. Extract the public key from the rpm file.

    Run the following command from the location where you copied the rpm file:

    # rpm2cpio VRTSveki-8.0.2.0000-RHEL8.x86_64.rpm | cpio -dimv ./etc/vx/kernel/infoscale-pubkey.der

    The output displays the following:

    ./etc/vx/kernel/infoscale-pubkey.der
12705 blocks

    Here, "infoscale-pubkey.der" is the InfoScale cryptographic public key and it is saved in the directory /etc/vx/kernel.

  4. If required, copy the key to a different location and then rename the file as pubkey.der.

    Type the following command:

    # mv infoscale-pubkey.der pubkey.der

    You can now import the file on the InfoScale nodes.

See Preparing for deployment in a Secure Boot environment.