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

Tunables value parameter definitions

When you create a tunables file for the installer you can only use the parameters in the following list.

Prior to making any updates to the tunables, refer to the Storage Foundation Cluster File System High Availability Administrator's Guide for detailed information on product tunable ranges and recommendations.

Table: Supported tunable parameters describes the supported tunable parameters that can be specified in a tunables file.

Table: Supported tunable parameters

Tunable

Description

autoreminor

(Volume Manager (VxVM)) Enable reminoring in case of conflicts during disk group import.

autostartvolumes

(Volume Manager (VxVM)) Enable the automatic recovery of volumes.

dmp_cache_open

(Dynamic Multi-Pathing) Whether the first open on a device performed by an array support library (ASL) is cached.

dmp_daemon_count

(Dynamic Multi-Pathing) The number of kernel threads for DMP administrative tasks.

dmp_delayq_interval

(Dynamic Multi-Pathing) The time interval for which DMP delays the error processing if the device is busy.

dmp_fast_recovery

(Dynamic Multi-Pathing) Whether DMP should attempt to obtain SCSI error information directly from the HBA interface. This tunable must be set after Dynamic Multi-Pathing is started.

dmp_health_time

(Dynamic Multi-Pathing) The time in seconds for which a path must stay healthy.

dmp_log_level

(Dynamic Multi-Pathing) The level of detail to which DMP console messages are displayed.

dmp_low_impact_probe

(Dynamic Multi-Pathing) Whether the low impact path probing feature is enabled.

dmp_lun_retry_timeout

(Dynamic Multi-Pathing) The retry period for handling transient errors.

dmp_monitor_fabric

(Dynamic Multi-Pathing) Whether the Event Source daemon (vxesd) uses the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) HBA API. This tunable must be set after Dynamic Multi-Pathing is started.

dmp_monitor_ownership

(Dynamic Multi-Pathing) Whether the dynamic change in LUN ownership is monitored.

dmp_native_support

(Dynamic Multi-Pathing) Whether DMP does multi-pathing for native devices.

dmp_path_age

(Dynamic Multi-Pathing) The time for which an intermittently failing path needs to be monitored before DMP marks it as healthy.

dmp_pathswitch_blks_shift

(Dynamic Multi-Pathing) The default number of contiguous I/O blocks sent along a DMP path to an array before switching to the next available path.

dmp_probe_idle_lun

(Dynamic Multi-Pathing) Whether the path restoration kernel thread probes idle LUNs.

dmp_probe_threshold

(Dynamic Multi-Pathing) The number of paths will be probed by the restore daemon.

dmp_restore_cycles

(Dynamic Multi-Pathing) The number of cycles between running the check_all policy when the restore policy is check_periodic.

dmp_restore_interval

(Dynamic Multi-Pathing) The time interval in seconds the restore daemon analyzes the condition of paths.

dmp_restore_policy

(Dynamic Multi-Pathing) The policy used by DMP path restoration thread.

dmp_restore_state

(Dynamic Multi-Pathing) Whether kernel thread for DMP path restoration is started.

dmp_retry_count

(Dynamic Multi-Pathing) The number of times a path reports a path busy error consecutively before DMP marks the path as failed.

dmp_scsi_timeout

(Dynamic Multi-Pathing) The timeout value for any SCSI command sent via DMP.

dmp_sfg_threshold

(Dynamic Multi-Pathing) The status of the subpaths failover group (SFG) feature.

dmp_stat_interval

(Dynamic Multi-Pathing) The time interval between gathering DMP statistics.

fssmartmovethreshold

(Volume Manager (VxVM)) The file system usage threshold for SmartMove (percent). This tunable must be set after Volume Manager (VxVM) is started.

max_diskq

(File System (VxFS)) Specifies the maximum disk queue generated by a single file. The installer can only set the system default value of max_diskq. Refer to the tunefstab(4) manual page for setting this tunable for a specified block device.

read_ahead

(File System (VxFS)) The 0 value disables read ahead functionality, the 1 value (default) retains traditional sequential read ahead behavior, and the 2 value enables enhanced read ahead for all reads. The installer can only set the system default value of read_ahead. Refer to the tunefstab(4) manual page for setting this tunable for a specified block device.

read_nstream

(File System (VxFS)) The number of parallel read requests of size read_pref_io that can be outstanding at one time. The installer can only set the system default value of read_nstream. Refer to the tunefstab(4) manual page for setting this tunable for a specified block device.

read_pref_io

(File System (VxFS)) The preferred read request size. The installer can only set the system default value of read_pref_io. Refer to the tunefstab(4) manual page for setting this tunable for a specified block device.

reclaim_on_delete_start_time

(Volume Manager (VxVM)) Time of day to start reclamation for deleted volumes. This tunable must be set after Volume Manager (VxVM) is started.

reclaim_on_delete_wait_period

(Volume Manager (VxVM)) Days to wait before starting reclamation for deleted volumes. This tunable must be set after Volume Manager (VxVM) is started.

same_key_for_alldgs

(Volume Manager (VxVM)) Use the same fencing key for all disk groups. This tunable must be set after Volume Manager (VxVM) is started.

sharedminorstart

(Volume Manager (VxVM)) Start of range to use for minor numbers for shared disk groups. This tunable must be set after Volume Manager (VxVM) is started.

storage_connectivity

(Volume Manager (VxVM)) The CVM storage connectivity type. This tunable must be set after Volume Manager (VxVM) is started.

usefssmartmove

(Volume Manager (VxVM)) Configure SmartMove feature (all, thinonly, none). This tunable must be set after Volume Manager (VxVM) is started.

vol_checkpt_default

(File System (VxFS)) Size of VxVM storage checkpoints (kBytes). This tunable requires a system reboot to take effect.

vol_cmpres_enabled

(Volume Manager (VxVM)) Allow enabling compression for Volume Replicator.

vol_cmpres_threads

(Volume Manager (VxVM)) Maximum number of compression threads for Volume Replicator.

vol_default_iodelay

(Volume Manager (VxVM)) Time to pause between I/O requests from VxVM utilities (10ms units). This tunable requires a system reboot to take effect.

vol_fmr_logsz

(Volume Manager (VxVM)) Maximum size of bitmap Fast Mirror Resync uses to track changed blocks (KBytes). This tunable requires a system reboot to take effect.

vol_max_adminio_poolsz

(Volume Manager (VxVM)) Maximum amount of memory used by VxVM admin I/O's (bytes). This tunable requires a system reboot to take effect.

vol_max_nmpool_sz

(Volume Manager (VxVM)) Maximum name pool size (bytes).

vol_max_rdback_sz

(Volume Manager (VxVM)) Storage Record readback pool maximum (bytes).

vol_max_wrspool_sz

(Volume Manager (VxVM)) Maximum memory used in clustered version of Volume Replicator .

vol_maxio

(Volume Manager (VxVM)) Maximum size of logical VxVM I/O operations (kBytes). This tunable requires a system reboot to take effect.

vol_maxioctl

(Volume Manager (VxVM)) Maximum size of data passed into the VxVM ioctl calls (bytes). This tunable requires a system reboot to take effect.

vol_maxparallelio

(Volume Manager (VxVM)) Number of I/O operations vxconfigd can request at one time. This tunable requires a system reboot to take effect.

vol_maxspecialio

(Volume Manager (VxVM)) Maximum size of a VxVM I/O operation issued by an ioctl call (kBytes). This tunable requires a system reboot to take effect.

vol_min_lowmem_sz

(Volume Manager (VxVM)) Low water mark for memory (bytes).

vol_nm_hb_timeout

(Volume Manager (VxVM)) Volume Replicator timeout value (ticks).

vol_rvio_maxpool_sz

(Volume Manager (VxVM)) Maximum memory requested by Volume Replicator (bytes).

vol_stats_enable

(Volume Manager (VxVM)) Enable VxVM I/O stat collection.

vol_subdisk_num

(Volume Manager (VxVM)) Maximum number of subdisks attached to a single VxVM plex. This tunable requires a system reboot to take effect.

voldrl_max_drtregs

(Volume Manager (VxVM)) Maximum number of dirty VxVM regions. This tunable requires a system reboot to take effect.

voldrl_max_seq_dirty

(Volume Manager (VxVM)) Maximum number of dirty regions in sequential mode. This tunable requires a system reboot to take effect.

voldrl_min_regionsz

(Volume Manager (VxVM)) Minimum size of a VxVM Dirty Region Logging (DRL) region (kBytes). This tunable requires a system reboot to take effect.

voldrl_volumemax_drtregs

(Volume Manager (VxVM)) Max per volume dirty regions in log-plex DRL.

voldrl_volumemax_drtregs_20

(Volume Manager (VxVM)) Max per volume dirty regions in DCO version 20.

voldrl_dirty_regions

(Volume Manager (VxVM)) Number of regions cached for DCO version 30.

voliomem_chunk_size

(Volume Manager (VxVM)) Size of VxVM memory allocation requests (bytes). This tunable requires a system reboot to take effect.

voliomem_maxpool_sz

(Volume Manager (VxVM)) Maximum amount of memory used by VxVM (bytes). This tunable requires a system reboot to take effect.

voliot_errbuf_dflt

(Volume Manager (VxVM)) Size of a VxVM error trace buffer (bytes). This tunable requires a system reboot to take effect.

voliot_iobuf_default

(Volume Manager (VxVM)) Default size of a VxVM I/O trace buffer (bytes). This tunable requires a system reboot to take effect.

voliot_iobuf_limit

(Volume Manager (VxVM)) Maximum total size of all VxVM I/O trace buffers (bytes). This tunable requires a system reboot to take effect.

voliot_iobuf_max

(Volume Manager (VxVM)) Maximum size of a VxVM I/O trace buffer (bytes). This tunable requires a system reboot to take effect.

voliot_max_open

(Volume Manager (VxVM)) Maximum number of VxVM trace channels available for vxtrace commands. This tunable requires a system reboot to take effect.

volpagemod_max_memsz

(Volume Manager (VxVM)) Maximum paging module memory used by Instant Snapshots (Kbytes).

volraid_rsrtransmax

(Volume Manager (VxVM)) Maximum number of VxVM RAID-5 transient reconstruct operations in parallel. This tunable requires a system reboot to take effect.

vx_bc_bufhwm

(File System (VxFS)) VxFS metadata buffer cache high water mark. This tunable requires a system reboot to take effect.

vxfs_ninode

(File System (VxFS)) Number of entries in the VxFS inode table. This tunable requires a system reboot to take effect.

write_nstream

(File System (VxFS)) The number of parallel write requests of size write_pref_io that can be outstanding at one time. The installer can only set the system default value of write_nstream. Refer to the tunefstab(4) manual page for setting this tunable for a specified block device.

write_pref_io

(File System (VxFS)) The preferred write request size. The installer can only set the system default value of write_pref_io. Refer to the tunefstab(4) manual page for setting this tunable for a specified block device.