InfoScale™ 9.0 Installation Guide - Linux

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Product(s): InfoScale & Storage Foundation (9.0)
Platform: Linux
  1. Section I. Planning and preparation
    1. Introducing Arctera InfoScale
      1.  
        About the Arctera InfoScale product suite
      2.  
        Components of the Arctera InfoScale product suite
      3.  
        About the co-existence of InfoScale products
    2. Licensing Arctera InfoScale
      1.  
        About Arctera 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 Arctera InfoScale
    1. Installing Arctera InfoScale using the installer
      1.  
        Installing Arctera InfoScale using the installer
      2.  
        Installing or upgrading Arctera InfoScale by using the installer as a sudo user
      3.  
        Installing or upgrading Arctera InfoScale using the installer with the -yum option
      4.  
        Executive Order logging
    2. Installing Arctera 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 Arctera InfoScale
      4.  
        Sample response files for Arctera InfoScale installation
    3. Installing Arctera InfoScale using operating system-specific methods
      1.  
        Verifying Arctera InfoScale RPMs
      2.  
        About installing InfoScale using operating system-specific methods
      3. Installing InfoScale using Kickstart
        1.  
          Sample Kickstart configuration file
      4.  
        Installing Arctera InfoScale using yum
      5. Installing InfoScale using the Red Hat Satellite server
        1.  
          Using Red Hat Satellite server to install InfoScale products
    4. Upgrading Arctera InfoScale using YUM
      1.  
        About InfoScale upgrade support using YUM
      2.  
        Upgrade InfoScale using the YUM tool
    5. Completing the post installation tasks
      1.  
        Verifying product installation
      2.  
        Setting environment variables
      3.  
        Commands to manage the Arctera Telemetry Collector on your server
      4.  
        Next steps after installation
  3. Section III. Uninstallation of Arctera InfoScale
    1. Uninstalling Arctera 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 Arctera InfoScale using response files
      1.  
        Uninstalling InfoScale using response files
      2.  
        Response file variables to uninstall Arctera InfoScale
      3.  
        Sample response file for 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 Replicated Data Set

If you use VVR, you need to perform the following steps. This section gives the steps to remove a Replicated Data Set (RDS) when the application is either active or stopped.

Note:

If you are upgrading Volume Replicator, do not remove the Replicated Data Set.

To remove the Replicated Data Set

  1. Verify that all RLINKs are up-to-date:
    # vxrlink -g diskgroup status rlink_name

    If the Secondary is not required to be up-to-date, proceed to 2 and stop replication using the -f option with the vradmin stoprep command.

  2. Stop replication to the Secondary by issuing the following command on any host in the RDS:

    The vradmin stoprep command fails if the Primary and Secondary RLINKs are not up-to-date. Use the -f option to stop replication to a Secondary even when the RLINKs are not up-to-date.

    # vradmin -g diskgroup stoprep local_rvgname sec_hostname

    The argument local_rvgname is the name of the RVG on the local host and represents its RDS.

    The argument sec_hostname is the name of the Secondary host as displayed in the output of the vradmin printrvg command.

  3. Remove the Secondary from the RDS by issuing the following command on any host in the RDS:
    # vradmin -g diskgroup delsec local_rvgname sec_hostname

    The argument local_rvgname is the name of the RVG on the local host and represents its RDS.

    The argument sec_hostname is the name of the Secondary host as displayed in the output of the vradmin printrvg command.

  4. Remove the Primary from the RDS by issuing the following command on the Primary:
    # vradmin -g diskgroup delpri local_rvgname

    When used with the -f option, the vradmin delpri command removes the Primary even when the application is running on the Primary.

    The RDS is removed.

  5. If you want to delete the SRLs from the Primary and Secondary hosts in the RDS, issue the following command on the Primary and all Secondaries:
    # vxedit -r -g diskgroup rm srl_name