Veritas InfoScale™ 8.0.1 Installation and Upgrade Guide - Windows

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Product(s): InfoScale & Storage Foundation (8.0.1)
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. 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
  4. Uninstalling the InfoScale products
    1.  
      About uninstalling the InfoScale products
    2.  
      Uninstalling the InfoScale products using the installation wizard
  5. 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 SQL Server service packs
        1.  
          Upgrading SQL Server to a compatible service pack
  6. Appendix A. Services and ports
    1.  
      InfoScale ports and services
  7. 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

InfoScale ports and services

If you have configured a firewall, then ensure that the firewall settings allow access to the services and ports used by the InfoScale products.

The following table displays the services and ports used by InfoScale products.

Ensure that you enable the ports and services for both, inbound and outbound communication.

Note:

The port numbers marked with an asterisk are mandatory for configuring the InfoScale products.

Table: InfoScale services and ports

Component Name/Port

InfoScale Foundation

InfoScale Availability

InfoScale Storage

InfoScale Enterprise

vxsvc.exe

2148*, 3207/TCP/UDP

Veritas Enterprise Administrator (VEA) Server

X

CmdServer.exe

14150*/TCP

Veritas Command Server

X

X

had.exe

14141*/TCP

Veritas High Availability Engine

X

X

Plugin_Host.exe

7419*/TCP

Veritas Plugin Host Service

X

vcsauthserver.exe

14149/TCP/UDP

VCS Authentication Service

X

X

vras.dll

8199/TCP

Volume Replicator Administrative Service

X

X

vxrserver.exe

8989/TCP

Volume Replicator Resync Utility

X

X

vxio.sys

4145/TCP/UDP

Volume Replicator Connection Server

X

VxSchedService.exe

4888/TCP

Veritas Scheduler Service

Use to launch the configured schedule.

X

User configurable ports created at kernel level by vxio .sys file

49152-65535/TCP/UDP

Volume Replicator Packets

X

Notifier.exe

14144/TCP/UDP

VCS Notification

X

X

wac.exe

14155/TCP/UDP

VCS Global Cluster Option (GCO)

X

X

xprtld.exe

5634/HTTPS

Veritas Storage Foundation Messaging Service

X