Veritas InfoScale 7.3 Installation and Upgrade Guide - Windows

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Product(s): InfoScale & Storage Foundation (7.3)
Platform: Windows
  1. Preinstallation and planning
    1. About the Veritas InfoScale product suite
      1.  
        About the Dynamic Multi-pathing for VMware component
    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
      1. Verifying the system configuration using the Windows Data Collector
        1.  
          Installing the Windows Data Collector
        2.  
          Running the verification reports
    7. About InfoScale licenses
      1.  
        Licensing notes
      2.  
        vxlicrep command
  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. Upgrading to InfoScale products
    1. Preparing the systems for an upgrade
      1.  
        About the supported upgrade paths and the supported minimum product versions
      2.  
        General preparations
      3.  
        Recommendations and considerations for product upgrade
    2. Performing the product upgrade
      1. Upgrading SFW or SFW Basic in a non-clustered environment
        1.  
          Preparing the primary site for upgrade in a non-clustered SFW environment
      2. Upgrading SFW or SFW Basic in a Windows Server Failover Cluster environment
        1.  
          Preparing the secondary site for SFW upgrade in a Windows Server Failover Cluster environment
        2.  
          Failing over application to secondary site
        3.  
          Preparing the primary site for SFW upgrade in a Windows Server Failover Cluster environment
      3.  
        Upgrading VCS
      4. Upgrading SFW HA
        1.  
          Preparing the primary and secondary sites for upgrading SFW HA in a Volume Replicator environment
        2.  
          Associating the replication logs and starting the replication
        3.  
          Re-enabling Volume Replicator in a VCS cluster
      5.  
        Upgrading DMP
    3.  
      About transitioning between the InfoScale products
  4. Performing the post upgrade tasks
    1.  
      Deployment scenarios and applicable post upgrade tasks
    2.  
      Re-enabling Volume Replicator in a non-clustered environment
    3.  
      Re-enabling Volume Replicator in a Microsoft failover cluster environment
    4.  
      Reconnecting DMP DSM paths after the upgrade
    5.  
      Reconfiguring the Veritas InfoScale Messaging Service
    6.  
      Importing the configured rules
    7.  
      Upgrading the dynamic disk group version
    8.  
      Upgrading clusters for stronger security
    9.  
      Reinstalling the custom agents
    10.  
      Including custom resources
  5. Administering the InfoScale product installation
    1.  
      Adding or removing product options
    2.  
      Managing InfoScale licenses
    3.  
      Repairing an InfoScale product installation
    4.  
      About reinstalling InfoScale products
  6. Uninstalling the InfoScale products
    1.  
      About uninstalling the InfoScale products
    2.  
      Uninstalling the InfoScale products using the installation wizard
  7. 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 Exchange Server service packs
        1.  
          Upgrading Exchange Server 2010 to a service pack
      2.  
        Upgrading the SQL Server service packs
      3.  
        Upgrading SQL Server 2012 or SQL Server 2014 or SQL Server 2016 to a service pack
      4.  
        Upgrading SharePoint Server 2010 to a service pack
  8. Appendix A. Services and ports
    1.  
      InfoScale ports and services
  9. 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

Upgrading the dynamic disk group version

This task is applicable only if you have upgraded the product from a version prior to 6.1.

The dynamic disk group version is not upgraded automatically after you upgrade SFW or SFW HA. If a service group in the previous configuration contains a dynamic disk group, you must upgrade its version after you complete the SFW or SFW HA upgrade.

Please note that the following features and operations are introduced with the new disk group version and, therefore, will not be supported if the disk group version is not upgraded:

  • The snapshot feature (prepare, snap shot, snap back, snap abort, and snap clear operations)

  • The dirty region logging (DRL) feature (add a log and remove a log operations)

  • Fast Resync and Fast File Resync features for volumes (add a log and remove a log operations)

  • Import disk group (import a legacy disk group as a shared disk group operation)

  • SSD caching

Note:

When a legacy disk group with dirty region logging (DRL) logs in its volumes is upgraded, the DRL logs are deleted on upgrade. You need to add the DRL logs manually after the upgrade.

Note:

Once a disk group version is upgraded, it cannot be changed back to an earlier disk group version and you can not import it on another server that is running any earlier versions of SFW.

Note:

Microsoft Disk Management Disk Groups do not support upgrading the disk group version. You must first convert the disk group to an SFW dynamic disk group, and then upgrade the SFW dynamic disk group.

Note:

After upgrading the disk group to the latest version and importing a disk group as a cluster-shared disk group (CSDG), you need to manually create the Volume Manager Shared Volume resource for each volume in a disk group.

For more information, see the Storage Foundation Administrator's Guide.

You can upgrade the dynamic disk group using the Veritas Enterprise Administrator (VEA) console or the CLI.

To upgrade the dynamic disk group version from the command line:

  1. To upgrade the disk group using CLI, run the following command. You must run this command for each dynamic disk group separately.

    vxdg -gDynamicDiskGroupName [-T version] upgrade

    Where,

    DynamicDiskGroupName = Name of the dynamic disk group

    version = Target version of the dynamic disk group

  2. After the disk group version is upgraded successfully, the disk group version should be 171. Run the following command to verify the upgraded version:

    vxdg -gDynamicDiskGroupName dginfo

To upgrade the dynamic disk group version using VEA

  1. From the VEA console, right-click the disk group. You must perform these steps for each dynamic disk group separately.
  2. Select Upgrade Dynamic Disk Group Version.

    A notification indicating that the disk group version has been upgraded is seen in the alert logs. After the disk group version is upgraded successfully, the disk group version should be 171. You can verify the disk group properties to confirm the upgraded version. After the disk group version is upgraded successfully, the disk group version should be 171.