Veritas InfoScale™ 7.4.2 Installation Guide - Linux

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Product(s): InfoScale & Storage Foundation (7.4.2)
Platform: Linux
  1. Section I. Planning and preparation
    1. Introducing Veritas InfoScale
      1.  
        About the Veritas InfoScale product suite
      2.  
        Components of the Veritas InfoScale product suite
      3.  
        About the co-existence of Veritas InfoScale products
    2. Licensing Veritas InfoScale
      1.  
        About Veritas InfoScale product licensing
      2.  
        About telemetry data collection in InfoScale
      3.  
        Licensing notes
      4.  
        Registering Veritas InfoScale using permanent license key file
      5.  
        Registering Veritas InfoScale using keyless license
      6. Managing InfoScale licenses
        1.  
          About the vxlicinstupgrade utility
      7.  
        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 and SF Sybase CE hardware requirements
        4.  
          VCS hardware requirements
      4.  
        Supported operating systems and database versions
      5.  
        Number of nodes supported
    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 and SF Sybase CE 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
  2. Section II. Installation of Veritas InfoScale
    1. Installing Veritas InfoScale using the installer
      1.  
        Installing Veritas InfoScale using the installer
    2. Installing Veritas InfoScale using response files
      1. About response files
        1.  
          Syntax in the response file
      2.  
        Installing Veritas InfoScale using response files
      3.  
        Response file variables to install Veritas InfoScale
      4.  
        Sample response files for Veritas InfoScale installation
    3. Installing Veritas Infoscale using operating system-specific methods
      1.  
        Verifying Veritas InfoScale RPMs
      2.  
        About installing Veritas InfoScale using operating system-specific methods
      3. Installing Veritas InfoScale using Kickstart
        1.  
          Sample Kickstart configuration file
      4.  
        Installing Veritas InfoScale using yum
      5. Installing Veritas InfoScale using the Red Hat Satellite server
        1.  
          Using Red Hat Satellite server to install Veritas InfoScale products
    4. Completing the post installation tasks
      1.  
        Verifying product installation
      2.  
        Setting environment variables
      3.  
        Managing the Veritas telemetry collector on your server
      4.  
        Next steps after installation
  3. Section III. Uninstallation of Veritas InfoScale
    1. Uninstalling Veritas 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 Veritas InfoScale RPMs using the installer
      6.  
        Removing the Storage Foundation for Databases (SFDB) repository
    2. Uninstalling Veritas InfoScale using response files
      1.  
        Uninstalling Veritas InfoScale using response files
      2.  
        Response file variables to uninstall Veritas InfoScale
      3.  
        Sample response file for Veritas 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

Managing the Veritas telemetry collector on your server

The Veritas telemetry collector on your server sends telemetry data to the edge server. You can manage the Veritas telemetry collector on each of your servers by using the/opt/VRTSvlic/tele/bin/TelemetryCollector command. See the following table for a list of operations that you can perform to manage the Veritas telemetry collector along with examples of each of the commands.

Table: Commands used to manage the collector

Operation

Description

Register an edge server and start the collector

Use the following command to register an edge server with the collector. Note that the collector is automatically started after running this command.

/opt/VRTSvlic/tele/bin/TelemetryCollector -start --hostname=<hostname_or_IP> --port=<port_number>

  • <hostname_or_IP> is the host name or IP address of the edge server you want to register.

  • <port_number> is the port number of the edge server that is used for communication.

Example:

/opt/VRTSvlic/tele/bin/TelemetryCollector -start --hostname=telemetry.veritas.com --port=443

Start the collector (if the collector is not already running)

Use the following command if you want to start a collector that is not sending telemetry data to the edge server.

/opt/VRTSvlic/tele/bin/TelemetryCollector -start

Restart the collector (if the collector is already running)

Use the following command to restart the collector that is sending telemetry data to the edge server.

/opt/VRTSvlic/tele/bin/TelemetryCollector -restart

Check whether the collector is running or not

Use the following command to check the status of the collector on your server.

/opt/VRTSvlic/tele/bin/TelemetryCollector -status

Check whether the collector is registered with an edge server

Use the following command to check whether the collector is registered with an edge server.

/opt/VRTSvlic/tele/bin/TelemetryCollector -registered

Update the host name, IP address, or port number of the edge server

Use the following command to update the host name or IP address and port number of the edge server.

/opt/VRTSvlic/tele/bin/TelemetryCollector -update --hostname=<hostname_or_IP> --port=<port_number>

  • <hostname_or_IP> is the host name or IP address of the edge server you want to register.

  • <port_number> is the port number of the edge server that is used for communication.

Examples:

  • /opt/VRTSvlic/tele/bin/TelemetryCollector -update --hostname=telemetry.veritas.com --port=443

  • /opt/VRTSvlic/tele/bin/TelemetryCollector -update --port=443

Configure how often telemetry data is sent to the edge server

Use either of the following commands to define how often you want the collector to send telemetry data to the edge server.

  • To send telemetry data once every month:

    /opt/VRTSvlic/tele/bin/TelemetryCollector -update --d=<day>

  • To send telemetry data once every day:

    /opt/VRTSvlic/tele/bin/TelemetryCollector -update --h=<hour>

  • To send telemetry data once every week:

    /opt/VRTSvlic/tele/bin/TelemetryCollector -update wday=<weekday>

Use the following variables in the above commands.

  • <day> is the day of the month that you want the collector to send telemetry data.

  • <hour> is the hour when you want the collector to send the telemetry data..

  • <weekday> is the day of the week that you want the collector to send telemetry data.

Examples:

  • /opt/VRTSvlic/tele/bin/TelemetryCollector -update --wday=MON

  • /opt/VRTSvlic/tele/bin/TelemetryCollector -update --h=6

  • /opt/VRTSvlic/tele/bin/TelemetryCollector -update --d=14