Veritas InfoScale™ 7.4.1 Installation and Upgrade Guide - Windows

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Product(s): InfoScale & Storage Foundation (7.4.1)
Platform: Windows
  1. Preinstallation and planning
    1.  
      About the Veritas InfoScale product suite
    2.  
      Supported hardware and software
    3.  
      Disk space requirements
    4.  
      Installation requirements
    5.  
      Requirements for installing InfoScale Storage in a Microsoft Failover Cluster
    6.  
      Recommendations and best practices
    7. About InfoScale licenses
      1.  
        Licensing notes
      2.  
        vxlicrep command
      3.  
        About Veritas License Audit Tool
    8.  
      About telemetry data collection in InfoScale
  2. Installing the Veritas InfoScale products
    1.  
      About installing the InfoScale products
    2.  
      About the co-existence of InfoScale products
    3.  
      Installing the server components using the installation wizard
    4.  
      Applying the selected installation and product options to multiple systems
    5.  
      Installing the server components using the command-line installer
    6.  
      Parameters for Setup.exe
    7.  
      Available product options and supported DMP DSMs
    8.  
      Registering the InfoScale Storage resource DLLs
    9.  
      Installing the client components
  3. Upgrading to InfoScale products
    1. Preparing the systems for an upgrade
      1.  
        About the supported upgrade paths and the supported minimum product versions
      2.  
        General preparations
      3.  
        Recommendations and considerations for product upgrade
    2. Performing the product upgrade
      1. Upgrading SFW or SFW Basic in a non-clustered environment
        1.  
          Preparing the primary site for upgrade in a non-clustered SFW environment
      2. Upgrading SFW or SFW Basic in a Windows Server Failover Cluster environment
        1.  
          Preparing the secondary site for upgrade in a Windows Server Failover Cluster environment
        2.  
          Failing over application to secondary site
        3.  
          Preparing the primary site for upgrade in a Windows Server Failover Cluster environment
      3.  
        Upgrading VCS
      4. Upgrading SFW HA
        1.  
          Preparing the primary and secondary sites for upgrade in a Volume Replicator environment
        2.  
          Associating the replication logs and starting the replication
        3.  
          Re-enabling Volume Replicator in a VCS cluster
      5.  
        Upgrading DMP
    3.  
      About transitioning between the InfoScale products
  4. Performing the post upgrade tasks
    1.  
      Deployment scenarios and applicable post upgrade tasks
    2.  
      Re-enabling Volume Replicator in a non-clustered environment
    3.  
      Re-enabling Volume Replicator in a Microsoft failover cluster environment
    4.  
      Reconnecting DMP DSM paths after the upgrade
    5.  
      Reconfiguring the Veritas InfoScale Messaging Service
    6.  
      Importing the configured rules
    7.  
      Upgrading clusters for stronger security
    8.  
      Reinstalling the custom agents
    9.  
      Including custom resources
  5. Administering the InfoScale product installation
    1.  
      Adding or removing product options
    2.  
      Managing InfoScale licenses
    3.  
      Managing the Veritas Telemetry Collector
    4.  
      Repairing an InfoScale product installation
    5.  
      About reinstalling InfoScale products
  6. Uninstalling the InfoScale products
    1.  
      About uninstalling the InfoScale products
    2.  
      Uninstalling the InfoScale products using the installation wizard
  7. Performing application upgrades in an InfoScale environment
    1. Upgrading Microsoft SQL Server
      1. Upgrading to later versions of SQL Server
        1.  
          Upgrading SQL Server on the first cluster node
        2.  
          Upgrading SQL Server on additional failover nodes
        3.  
          Creating the new SQL Server service group
    2. Upgrading Oracle
      1.  
        Performing the post upgrade tasks
      2.  
        Associating the updated Oracle database with the listener
      3. Configuring the Oracle database and listener to use the virtual IP address
        1.  
          Setting the dispatchers parameter in PFILE
        2.  
          Setting the dispatchers parameter in SPFILE
      4.  
        Configuring Oracle and listener services
      5.  
        Modifying the ServiceName attribute for the netlsnr resource
    3. Upgrading application service packs in an InfoScale environment
      1. Upgrading the Exchange Server service packs
        1.  
          Upgrading Exchange Server 2010 to a service pack
      2. Upgrading the SQL Server service packs
        1.  
          Upgrading SQL Server 2012 or later to a compatible service pack
      3.  
        Upgrading SharePoint Server 2010 to a service pack
  8. Appendix A. Services and ports
    1.  
      InfoScale ports and services
  9. Appendix B. Migrating from a third-party multi-pathing solution to DMP
    1.  
      Migrating from EMC PowerPath
    2. Migrating from Hitachi Dynamic Link Manager (HDLM)
      1.  
        Uninstalling HDLM in a non-clustered environment
      2.  
        Uninstalling HDLM in a clustered (MSCS or VCS) environment
    3.  
      Configuring DMP for Active/Active load balancing in a cluster

Available product options and supported DMP DSMs

Microsoft Failover Cluster and DMP DSMs are available as the selectable product options. These product options are available depending on the product being installed.

The Microsoft Failover Cluster option installs the SFW component that is required if you plan to configure a Microsoft Failover Cluster.

The following table provides details about whether or not the options are applicable for the respective product:

Table: InfoScale product options

Product

Microsoft Failover Cluster

DMP DSM

Veritas InfoScale Foundation

X

✓

Veritas InfoScale Availability

X

X

Veritas InfoScale Storage

✓

✓

Veritas InfoScale Enterprise

X

✓

The following table provides a list of the available DMP DSMs.

Table: List of available DSMs

DMP device-specific modules (DSMs)

  • 3PARDATA (V3PARAA)

  • Compellent array (VCOMPLNT)

  • Dell EqualLogic array (VEQLOGIC)

  • Dell PowerVault MD3xxx (VDELLMD)

  • EMC Clarion (VEMCCLAR)

  • EMC Symmetrix/DMX (VEMCSYMM)

  • EMC VPLEX array (VEMCVPLX)

  • EMC XTREMEIO (VXTREMIO)

  • FUJITSU ETERNUS 2000 array (VFUJITSUAA)

  • Hitachi 95xx-AMS-WM (VHDSAP)

  • Hitachi TagmaStore/HP XP (VHDSAA)

  • HP 2000 array (VHPMSA2)

  • HP EVA-MSA (VHPEVA)

  • HUAWEI S5300/S2300 array (VHUAWEIAP)

  • IBM DS AP (VIBMAPDS)

  • IBM DS6000 (VIBMAP)

  • IBM DS4000/SUN 6000 (VENGAP)

  • IBM DS8000/ESS (VIBMAADS)

  • IBM FlashSystem (VIBFLASH)

  • IBM XiV Storage System (VXIV)

  • KMNRIO (VKMNRIO)

  • NexentaStor (VNEXENTA)

  • NETAPP (VNETAPP)

  • NEXSAN SATA/SAS Beast, E60/E18 array (VNEXSAN)

  • NIMBLE (VNIMBLE)

  • PILLAR (VPILLAR)

  • SUN Array - (VSUN)

  • VIOLIN V3000, V6000 (VVIOLIN)

  • VORACLE

  • NFINIDAT InfiniBox (VNFINIDAT)

For the latest information about the supported DSMs, refer to the hardware compatibility list (HCL) at:

https://sort.veritas.com/documents

Notes:

  • Do not use a DMP DSM together with a third-party DSM for the same array. Only one DSM at a time can claim the LUNs in an array. According to Microsoft Multipath I/O (MPIO) documentation, if multiple DSMs are installed, the Microsoft MPIO framework contacts each DSM to determine which is appropriate to handle a device. There is no particular order in which the MPIO framework contacts the DSMs. The first DSM to claim ownership of the device is associated with that device. Other DSMs cannot claim an already claimed device. Therefore, to ensure that the DMP DSM claims the LUNs of an array, no other DSM should be installed for that same array.

  • If you are upgrading the product using the product installer, do not clear the selection for the DSMs you want to remove. Clearing the default selection does not remove the installed DSMs.

    To remove the DSMs, perform any one of the following:

    • Before you begin to upgrade the cluster, remove the required DSM, using the Windows Add or Remove Programs. Reboot the node and then perform the upgrade.

    • Upgrade the cluster and then use the Windows Add or Remove Programs to remove the DSM.

    • Upgrade the cluster and then navigate to %ALLUSERSPROFILE%\Veritas\MPIO\.

      From the command prompt, run the following command:

      instdsm.exe - u DSMName.inf

    Note:

    If you clear the default selection during the upgrade, you cannot remove the DSM using the Windows Add or Remove Programs. To remove the DSM in this case, you must run the command that is mentioned earlier.

  • If you are upgrading the product using CLI, you must specify the previously installed options in the OPTIONS parameter, else they will be uninstalled. To include the previously installed options in this parameter, either specify these options individually in the OPTIONS parameter or specify "Installed" in the OPTIONS parameter to upgrade all options (example: options="Installed,flashsnap" ).

  • If you install InfoScale Availability on a system where you have already installed Veritas InfoScale Storage and have configured Microsoft Failover Cluster, you must first unconfigure the Microsoft Failover Cluster and remove the SFW component for Microsoft Failover Cluster.

    To unconfigure Microsoft Failover Cluster, refer to Microsoft documentation.

    To remove the SFW component for Microsoft Failover Cluster, use Windows Add Remove Programs.

  • If you install InfoScale Storage on a system where you have installed InfoScale Availability, you cannot specify the Microsoft Failover Cluster option.