InfoScale™ 9.0 Installation Guide - AIX

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Product(s): InfoScale & Storage Foundation (9.0)
Platform: AIX
  1. Section I. Planning and preparation
    1. Introducing Arctera InfoScale
      1.  
        About the Arctera InfoScale product suite
      2.  
        Components of the Arctera InfoScale product suite
      3.  
        About the co-existence of InfoScale products
    2. Licensing Arctera InfoScale
      1.  
        About Arctera InfoScale product licensing
      2.  
        About InfoScale Core Plus license meter
      3.  
        About telemetry data collection in InfoScale
      4.  
        Licensing notes
      5. About managing InfoScale licenses
        1.  
          About the vxlicinstupgrade utility
      6.  
        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 hardware requirements
        4.  
          VCS hardware requirements
        5.  
          Virtual I/O Server (VIOS) 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 the SCSI identifier value
        2.  
          Setting up Fibre Channel
      8.  
        Synchronizing time settings on cluster nodes
      9.  
        Configuring LLT interconnects to use Jumbo Frames
      10. Planning the installation setup for SF Oracle RAC 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
      11.  
        Updating the SCSI reserve ODM attribute settings for VIOS
      12.  
        Setting the minimum data segment size on AIX 7.3
  2. Section II. Installation of Arctera InfoScale
    1. Installing Arctera InfoScale using the installer
      1.  
        Installing Arctera InfoScale using the installer
      2.  
        Executive Order logging
    2. Installing Arctera InfoScale using response files
      1. About response files
        1.  
          Syntax in the response file
      2.  
        Installing InfoScale using response files
      3.  
        Response file variables to install Arctera InfoScale
      4.  
        Sample response files for Arctera InfoScale installation
    3. Installing Arctera InfoScale using operating system-specific methods
      1.  
        About installing InfoScale using operating system-specific methods
      2. Installing InfoScale using NIM and the installer
        1.  
          Preparing the installation bundle on the NIM server
        2.  
          Installing InfoScale on the NIM client using SMIT on the NIM server
        3.  
          Installing InfoScale and the operating system on the NIM client using SMIT
    4.  
      Upgrading Arctera InfoScale using YUM
    5. Completing the post installation tasks
      1.  
        Verifying product installation
      2.  
        Setting environment variables
      3.  
        Commands to manage the Arctera Telemetry Collector on your server
      4.  
        Next steps after installation
  3. Section III. Uninstallation of Arctera InfoScale
    1. Uninstalling Arctera InfoScale using the installer
      1. Preparing to uninstall a InfoScale product
        1.  
          Moving volumes to physical disks
      2.  
        Removing the Replicated Data Set
      3.  
        Uninstalling InfoScale filesets using the installer
      4.  
        Removing Storage Foundation products using SMIT
      5.  
        Removing the Storage Foundation for Databases (SFDB) repository
    2. Uninstalling Arctera InfoScale using response files
      1.  
        Uninstalling InfoScale using response files
      2.  
        Response file variables to uninstall Arctera InfoScale
      3.  
        Sample response file for 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.  
        Troubleshooting an installation on AIX
      3.  
        Incorrect permissions for root on remote system
      4.  
        Resource temporarily unavailable
      5.  
        Inaccessible system

Licensing notes

Review the following licensing notes before you install or upgrade the product.

  • If you use a keyless license option, you must configure Arctera InfoScale Operations Manager within two months of product installation and add the node as a managed host to the Arctera InfoScale Operations Manager Management Server. Failing this, a warning message for non-compliance is displayed periodically.

    For more details, refer to Arctera InfoScale Operations Manager product documentation.

  • Note the following limitation in case of InfoScale Availability and InfoScale Storage co-existence:

    If Keyless licensing type is selected during the product installation, checks performed to monitor the number of days of product installation are based on the InfoScale Storage component. As a result, if you do not enter a valid license key file or do not add the host as a managed host within 60 days of InfoScale Storage installation, a non-compliance error is logged every 4 hrs in the Event Viewer.

  • The text-based license keys that are used in 7.3.1 and earlier versions are not supported when upgrading to later versions. If your current product is installed using a permanent license key and you do not have a permanent license key file for the newer InfoScale version, you can temporarily upgrade using the keyless licensing. Then you must procure a permanent license key file from the Arctera license certificate and portal within 60 days, and upgrade using the permanent license key file to continue using the product.

  • The license key file must be present on the same node where you are trying to install the product.

    Note:

    The license key file must not be saved in the root directory (/) or the default license directory on the local host (/etc/vx/licesnes/lic). You can save the license key file inside any other directory on the local host.

  • You can manage the license keys using the vxlicinstupgrade utility.

    See About managing InfoScale licenses.

  • Before upgrading the product, review the licensing details and back up the older license key. If the upgrade fails for some reason, you can temporarily revert to the older product using the older license key to avoid any application downtime.

  • You can use the license assigned for higher Stock Keeping Units (SKU) to install the lower SKUs.

    For example, if you have procured a license that is assigned for InfoScale Enterprise, you can use the license for installing any of the following products:

    • InfoScale Foundation

    • InfoScale Storage

    • InfoScale Availability

    The following table provides details about the license SKUs and the corresponding products that can be installed:

    License SKU procured

    Products that can be installed

     

    InfoScale Foundation

    InfoScale Storage

    InfoScale Availability

    InfoScale Enterprise

    InfoScale Foundation

    ✓

    X

    X

    X

    InfoScale Storage

    ✓

    ✓

    X

    X

    InfoScale Availability

    X

    X

    ✓

    X

    InfoScale Enterprise

    ✓

    ✓

    ✓

    ✓

    Note:

    At any given point in time you can install only one product.