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

Removing the InfoScale public key

The process for deleting the InfoScale public key from the system is similar to the steps for adding the key. If the Secure Boot feature is enabled and you delete the InfoScale public key from a system, you cannot load any signed kernel modules from the InfoScale packages on that system.

Verify that following before you proceed:

  • Ensure that you have administrative privileges on the system.

  • Ensure that you have console access to the systems (Web Console access in case of VMware virtual machines). Console access is required to access the UEFI Setup Screen during system startup.

To remove the InfoScale public key

  1. Connect to an InfoScale system using ssh and then navigate to the location that contains the InfoScale public key.
  2. To delete the key, run the following command from the directory that contains the key:

    # mokutil --delete pubkey.der

  3. On the password prompt, enter the password that is associated with that key.

    Then type the same password again to confirm.

  4. To remove the imported public key from the Machine Owner Key (MOK) database on the system, switch to the console view of the system and then restart the system.
  5. At system boot, the UEFI key management screen appears for a few seconds. Quickly press any key to enter the MOK management interface.

    Note:

    If you miss the UEFI key management screen at startup, restart the system and try again.

  6. On the Perform MOK management screen, select Delete MOK and press Enter.

  7. On the Delete MOK screen, select Continue and press Enter.
  8. On the Delete the keys(s)? screen, select Yes and press Enter.
  9. On the password prompt, type the password that you assigned to the public key and then press Enter.

  10. On the Perform MOK management screen, select Reboot and press Enter to restart the system.

  11. To verify that the public key is successfully removed, connect to the system again using ssh and type the following command at the terminal:

    # mokutil --list-enrolled

    The Veritas public key no longer appears in the list of enrolled keys on the system.

    The process of removing the InfoScale public key from the system is now complete. Repeat these steps on each system from where you intend to delete the InfoScale public key.