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

About enabling Secure Boot on InfoScale hosts

The following information provides a high-level guidance on how to enable Secure Boot on the systems in your environment. The actual steps may vary depending on the hardware, operating system, and virtual machine or cloud environment. Refer to the respective vendor documentation for detailed instructions.

When to enable Secure Boot

All InfoScale kernel modules are digitally signed by default. Digital signatures allow you to deploy InfoScale on the systems where Secure Boot is enabled. However, enabling Secure Boot is not a prerequisite. You can install the InfoScale packages that contain signed kernel modules even if Secure Boot is not enabled on the systems in your environment.

The following table provides guidance on the sequence to follow when you want to enable Secure Boot and deploy InfoScale in your environment:

Table: Secure Boot and InfoScale deployment order

Scenario

Will use Secure Boot

Will not use Secure Boot

New InfoScale deployment

  • First enable Secure Boot on all the required systems.

  • Then, download and enroll the InfoScale public key on each system.

  • Then install and configure InfoScale.

Directly install and configure InfoScale on the desired systems.

No additional steps required.

InfoScale upgrade

  • First upgrade all the systems to the latest InfoScale version

  • Then, enable Secure Boot.

  • Then, download and enroll the InfoScale public key on each system.

    Your InfoScale environment is ready to utilize the enhanced security that Secure Boot mechanism has to offer.

    Thereafter, you can only install InfoScale packages (hotfix, patch, or future upgrades) that contain digitally signed kernel modules on those systems.

Directly upgrade to the latest InfoScale version.

No additional steps required.

Enable Secure Boot on VMware virtual machines

To enable Secure Boot on VMware virtual machines from VMware vSphere

  1. Sign in to the VMware vSphere client with a user that has administrative privileges to the virtual machines.
  2. Ensure that the virtual machine where you intend to enable Secure Boot is powered off.
  3. Select the virtual machine and then from the menu options at the top, click Actions > Edit Settings.
  4. On the Edit Settings dialog, click the VM Options tab, expand Boot Options, and then select the Enabled checkbox for Secure Boot.

  5. Click OK to save the configuration changes and then start the virtual machine.
  6. Repeat these steps for each virtual machine where you intend to use the Secure Boot mechanism and deploy InfoScale packages that contain digitally signed kernel modules.
Enable Secure Boot on physical machines running on Dell hardware

To enable Secure Boot on Dell physical machines

  1. Go to the physical machine's rack console and log on to the GUI.
  2. From the physical machine's virtual console, click Power and then click Power Cycle System (cold boot) to initiate a machine reboot.

  3. While the machine is booting, press the F2 key to access the System Setup screen.
  4. On the System Setup screen, click System BIOS.
  5. From the System BIOS Settings, click System Security, and then under the SECURE BOOT section, select the Enabled option for Secure Boot.

  6. Click Back and navigate back to the System Setup screen and then click Finish and complete the machine reboot process.
  7. Repeat these steps for each physical machine where you intend to use the Secure Boot mechanism and deploy InfoScale packages that contain digitally signed kernel modules.
Verify the Secure Boot status

  • To verify if Secure Boot is enabled, connect to the system using ssh and enter the following command on the system terminal:

    # mokutil --sb-state

    The following output confirms that Secure Boot is enabled on the system:

    SecureBoot enabled