Veritas InfoScale 7.1 Installation and Upgrade Guide - Windows
- Preinstallation and planning
- Installing the Veritas InfoScale products
- About installing the InfoScale products
- About the co-existence of InfoScale products
- Installing the server components using the installation wizard
- Applying the selected installation and product options to multiple systems
- Installing the server components using the command-line installer
- Parameters for Setup.exe
- Available product options and supported DMP DSMs
- Registering the InfoScale Storage resource DLLs
- Installing the client components
- Upgrading to InfoScale products
- Performing the post upgrade tasks
- Deployment scenarios and applicable post upgrade tasks
- Re-enabling Volume Replicator in a non-clustered environment
- Re-enabling Volume Replicator in a Microsoft failover cluster environment
- Reconnecting DMP DSM paths after the upgrade
- Reconfiguring the Veritas InfoScale Messaging Service
- Importing the configured rules
- Upgrading the dynamic disk group version
- Upgrading clusters for stronger security
- Reinstalling the custom agents
- Including custom resources
- Administering the InfoScale product installation
- Uninstalling the InfoScale products
- Performing application upgrades in an InfoScale environment
- Upgrading Microsoft SQL Server
- Upgrading SQL Server 2008 to SQL Server 2008 R2
- Preupgrade tasks for upgrading SQL Server 2008 to SQL Server 2008 R2 in a disaster recovery environment
- Upgrading SQL Server 2008 to SQL Server 2008 R2 on the first cluster node
- Upgrading SQL Server 2008 to SQL Server 2008 R2 on additional failover nodes
- Modifying the SQL Server 2008 service group configuration
- Deleting the SQL Server 2008 service group and creating the SQL Server 2008 R2 service group
- Upgrading to later versions of SQL Server
- Upgrading SQL Server 2008 to SQL Server 2008 R2
- Upgrading Oracle
- Upgrading application service packs in an InfoScale environment
- Upgrading Microsoft SQL Server
- Appendix A. Services and ports
- Appendix B. Migrating from a third-party multi-pathing solution to DMP
Recommendations and considerations for product upgrade
Note the following points before you begin with the upgrade:
During the upgrade, verify the selected installation and product options. All the installed options are selected by default.
If you do not want to include any of the installed options in the upgraded environment, you must uninstall those options before you proceed with the upgrade. Use the Windows Add or Remove Programs feature to uninstall the option.
If you want to add any additional options, you must select the same.
You can continue to use the 6.0.x or 6.x license keys. However, note that the features available with the 6.0.x or 6.x license keys will only be enabled after the product upgrade. To enable all the available features, specify a 7.1 license key. Feature-based license keys are not available for 7.1.
For details, See Licensing notes.
When you upgrade to InfoScale Foundation, InfoScale Storage, or InfoScale Enterprise the product installation wizard replaces the Disk Management Snap-in in the Windows Computer Management console and the Server Manager console with the Veritas Enterprise Administrator (VEA) GUI. To change this default, access the VEA GUI after the upgrade completes and proceed to restore the Disk Management Snap-in.
For information about using the VEA GUI, see Storage Foundation Administrator's Guide.
If you upgrade SFW to InfoScale Storage or InfoScale Enterprise in a Volume Replicator environment, you must first perform the upgrade at the secondary site. After you have completed the upgrade and the post upgrade tasks at the secondary site, you must fail over the applications from the primary site to the secondary site and then proceed to upgrade the nodes at the primary site. Once the nodes at the primary site are upgraded, you must migrate the applications back.
Since Volume Replicator 5.0.x and Volume Replicator 5.1 versions are interoperable, an upgrade can be performed on the secondary site while applications are kept running on the primary site.
If you upgrade InfoScale Foundation, InfoScale Storage, or InfoScale Enterprise and your configuration has DMP configured, then it is recommended to reduce the number of paths to each array to one, before you begin the upgrade.
If you do not have DMP DSMs in your existing environment, but plan to add this feature during the upgrade, add the HBA(host bus adapter) hardware before performing the upgrade. Connect no more than one path from the new HBA to the storage array before the upgrade and DMP DSMs installation. Select the DMP DSM option or the appropriate DMP DSMs while running the installer.
Veritas InfoScale products do not provide Dynamic Multi-Pathing support for PROMISE arrays. If currently installed, Dynamic Multi-Pathing support for PROMISE will be removed after the upgrade is complete.