InfoScale™ 9.0 Storage Foundation Configuration and Upgrade Guide - AIX

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Product(s): InfoScale & Storage Foundation (9.0)
Platform: AIX
  1. Section I. Introduction and configuration of Storage Foundation
    1. Introducing Storage Foundation
      1. About Storage Foundation
        1.  
          About Veritas Replicator Option
      2.  
        About InfoScale Operations Manager
      3.  
        About Services and Operations Readiness Tools (SORT)
    2. Configuring Storage Foundation
      1.  
        Configuring Storage Foundation using the installer
      2. Configuring SF manually
        1.  
          Configuring Veritas File System
      3.  
        Configuring DMP support for booting over a SAN
      4.  
        Configuring SFDB
  2. Section II. Upgrade of Storage Foundation
    1. Planning to upgrade Storage Foundation
      1.  
        About the upgrade
      2.  
        Supported upgrade paths
      3. Preparing to upgrade SF
        1.  
          Getting ready for the upgrade
        2.  
          Preparing for an upgrade of Storage Foundation
        3.  
          Creating backups
        4. Pre-upgrade planning when VVR is configured
          1.  
            Considerations for upgrading SF to 7.4 or later on systems with an ongoing or a paused replication
          2. Planning an upgrade from the previous VVR version
            1.  
              Planning and upgrading VVR to use IPv6 as connection protocol
        5.  
          Verifying that the file systems are clean
        6.  
          Upgrading the array support
      4.  
        Using Install Bundles to simultaneously install or upgrade full releases (base, maintenance, rolling patch), and individual patches
    2. Upgrading Storage Foundation
      1.  
        Upgrading Storage Foundation with the product installer
      2. Upgrade Storage Foundation and AIX on a DMP-enabled rootvg
        1.  
          Upgrading from prior version of SF on AIX 7.3 to SF 9.0 on a DMP-enabled rootvg
        2.  
          Upgrading the operating system from AIX 7.2 to AIX 7.3 in Veritas InfoScale 9.0
      3.  
        Upgrading SF on a Virtual I/O server (VIOS) from 7.3.1 or later to 9.0
      4.  
        Upgrading the AIX operating system
      5. Upgrading Volume Replicator
        1. Upgrading VVR without disrupting replication
          1.  
            Upgrading VVR sites for InfoScale 7.3.1
          2.  
            Upgrading VVR sites with InfoScale 7.4 or later
          3.  
            Post-upgrade tasks for VVR sites
      6.  
        Upgrading SFDB
    3. Performing an automated SF upgrade using response files
      1.  
        Upgrading SF using response files
      2.  
        Response file variables to upgrade SF
      3.  
        Sample response file for SF upgrade
    4. Performing post-upgrade tasks
      1.  
        Optional configuration steps
      2.  
        Recovering VVR if automatic upgrade fails
      3.  
        Resetting DAS disk names to include host name in FSS environments
      4.  
        Upgrading disk layout versions
      5.  
        Upgrading VxVM disk group versions
      6.  
        Updating variables
      7.  
        Setting the default disk group
      8.  
        Verifying the Storage Foundation upgrade
  3. Section III. Post configuration tasks
    1. Performing configuration tasks
      1.  
        Switching on Quotas
      2.  
        Enabling DMP support for native devices
      3. About configuring authentication for SFDB tools
        1.  
          Configuring vxdbd for SFDB tools authentication
  4. Section IV. Configuration and upgrade reference
    1. Appendix A. Support for AIX Live Update
      1.  
        Support for AIX Live Update (Technology preview)
    2. Appendix B. Installation scripts
      1.  
        Installation script options
      2.  
        About using the postcheck option
    3. Appendix C. Configuring the secure shell or the remote shell for communications
      1.  
        About configuring secure shell or remote shell communication modes before installing products
      2.  
        Manually configuring passwordless ssh
      3.  
        Setting up ssh and rsh connection using the installer -comsetup command
      4.  
        Setting up ssh and rsh connection using the pwdutil.pl utility
      5.  
        Restarting the ssh session
      6.  
        Enabling rsh for AIX
    4. Appendix D. Changing NFS server major numbers for VxVM volumes
      1.  
        Changing NFS server major numbers for VxVM volumes

Upgrading disk layout versions

In this release, you can create and mount only file systems with disk layout version 14, 15, 16, 17, and 18. You can local mount disk layout version 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, and 13 to upgrade to a later disk layout version.

Note:

If you plan to use 64-bit quotas, you must upgrade to the disk layout version 10 or later.

Disk layout version 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, and 13 are deprecated and you cannot cluster mount an existing file system that has any of these versions.

To upgrade a cluster file system from any of these deprecated versions, you must local mount the file system and then upgrade it using the vxupgrade utility or the vxfsconvert utility.

The vxupgrade utility enables you to upgrade the disk layout while the file system is online. However, the vxfsconvert utility enables you to upgrade the disk layout while the file system is offline.

If you use the vxupgrade utility, you must incrementally upgrade the disk layout versions. However, you can directly upgrade to a desired version, using the vxfsconvert utility.

For example, to upgrade from disk layout version 7 to a disk layout version 10, using the vxupgrade utility:

# vxupgrade -n 8 /mnt
# vxupgrade -n 9 /mnt
# vxupgrade -n 10 /mnt

See the vxupgrade(1M) manual page.

See the vxfsconvert(1M) manual page.

Note:

Arctera recommends that before you begin to upgrade the product version, you must upgrade the existing file system to the highest supported disk layout version. Once a disk layout version has been upgraded, it is not possible to downgrade to the previous version.

Use the following command to check your disk layout version:

# fstyp -v /dev/vx/dsk/dg1/vol1 | grep -i version

For more information about disk layout versions, see the Storage Foundation Administrator's Guide.