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

Removing Storage Foundation products using SMIT

Use the following procedure to remove Storage Foundation products using SMIT.

To remove the packages using SMIT

  1. Stop the following SFCFSHA modules: VCS, VxFEN, ODM, GAB, and LLT.

    Run the following commands to stop the SFCFSHA modules:

    # hastop -all
    # /etc/methods/glmkextadm unload
    # /etc/rc.d/rc2.d/s99odm stop
    # /etc/methods/gmskextadm unload
    # /etc/init.d/vxfen.rc stop
    # /etc/init.d/gab.rc stop
    # /etc/init.d/llt.rc stop

    Run the following commands to check if all the modules have been stopped:

    # gabconfig -a
    # lltconfig
  2. Disable DMP native support, if it is enabled. Run the following command to disable DMP native support 
    # vxdmpadm settune dmp_native_support=off
# shutdown -Fr
  3. Enter this command to invoke SMIT:
    # smit
  4. In SMIT, select Software Installation and Maintenance > Software Maintenance and Utilities > Remove Installed Software.
  5. Under the SOFTWARE name menu, press F4 or Esc-4 to list all the software that is installed on the system.
  6. Enter "/" for Find, type "VRTS" to find all filesets, and select the filesets that you want to remove.
  7. Restart the system after removing all Storage Foundation filesets.
  8. Depending on the choices that were made when Storage Foundation was originally installed, you may find that not all of the listed Storage Foundation filesets are installed on the system. You may also choose to remove the VRTSvlic licensing package unless some other Veritas InfoScale software requires it.