Veritas Data Insight 6.1 Installation Guide

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Product(s): Data Insight (6.1)
  1. Understanding the Veritas Data Insight architecture
    1.  
      About Veritas Data Insight
    2.  
      About the Management Server
    3. About the Collector worker node
      1.  
        About the Collector
      2.  
        About the Scanner
    4.  
      About the Indexer worker node
    5.  
      About the Classification Server
    6.  
      About the Self-Service Portal node
    7.  
      About Communication Service
    8.  
      About the DataInsightWatchdog service
    9.  
      About the DataInsightWorkflow service
    10. About Veritas Data Insight installation tiers
      1.  
        About three-tier installation
      2.  
        About two-tier installation
      3.  
        About single-tier installation
  2. Preinstallation
    1.  
      Preinstallation steps
    2.  
      Operating system requirements
    3. System requirements for Veritas Data Insight components
      1.  
        System requirements for classification components
    4.  
      Supported file servers and platforms
    5.  
      Supported browsers
    6.  
      List of ports
    7.  
      Web server version
  3. Installing Veritas Data Insight
    1.  
      About installing Veritas Data Insight
    2.  
      Performing a single-tier installation
    3.  
      Performing a two-tier installation
    4.  
      Performing a three-tier installation
    5.  
      Installing the Management Server
    6.  
      Installing the worker node
    7.  
      Installing the Classification Server
    8.  
      Installing the Self-Service Portal
    9.  
      Installing a Linux Indexer worker node
  4. Upgrading Veritas Data Insight
    1.  
      Upgrading Data Insight to version
    2.  
      Upgrading the product data using the Upgrade Data Wizard
    3.  
      Names and locations of cache files
    4.  
      Upgrading the Data Insight web service for SharePoint
  5. Post-installation configuration
    1.  
      Post-installation configuration
    2.  
      Registering the worker node
    3. About post-installation security configuration for Management Server
      1.  
        About SSL client/server certificates
      2.  
        Generating Management Console certificate
    4.  
      Configuring your corporate firewall
  6. Installing Windows File Server agent
    1.  
      About Windows File Server agent
    2.  
      Installing Windows File Server agent manually
    3.  
      Configuring the Windows File Server using ConfigureWindowsFileServer.exe
  7. Getting started with Data Insight
    1.  
      About the Data Insight Management Console
    2.  
      Logging in to the Data Insight Management Console
    3.  
      Logging out of the Data Insight Management Console
    4.  
      Displaying online help
  8. Uninstalling Veritas Data Insight
    1.  
      Uninstalling Veritas Data Insight
  9. Appendix A. Installing Data Insight using response files
    1.  
      About response files
    2.  
      Installing Data Insight using response files
    3.  
      Sample response files

System requirements for classification components

Table: Minimum recommended system requirements for classification components lists the minimum recommended system requirements for classification components.

Table: Minimum recommended system requirements for classification components

Component

If classification is enabled

If Smart Classification is enabled

Management Server

  • Windows Server 2008 or 2008 R2, 2012 or 2012 R2, and 2016. The operating system must be 64-bit.

  • 16GB RAM

  • 8 CPU cores

  • Windows Server 2008 or 2008 R2, 2012 or 2012 R2, and 2016. The operating system must be 64-bit.

  • 128GB RAM

    Note:

    Provision additional 2 MB space per million paths.

  • 32 CPU cores

  • 200 GB of free disk space for temporary files which are created during the classification process.

Indexer worker node

  • Windows Server 2008 or 2008 R2, 2012 or 2012 R2, and 2016. The operating system must be 64-bit.

    Note:

    If classification role is assigned to Indexer and Collector node, then ensure that the operating system is Windows Server 2012 R2 or later.

  • 16GB RAM

  • 8 CPU cores

  • Windows Server 2008 or 2008 R2, 2012 or 2012 R2, and 2016. The operating system must be 64- bit.

    Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 6.0 update 3 or higher, or version 7.0; 64-bit only.

  • 128GB RAM

    Note:

    Provision additional 2 MB space per million paths.

  • 32 CPU cores

  • 200 GB of free disk space for temporary files which are created during the classification process.

Collector worker node

  • Windows Server 2008, or 2008 R2; 64-bit Windows Server 2012 or 2012 R2, and 2016. The operating system must be 64-bit.

    Note:

    If classification role is assigned, then ensure that the operating system is Windows Server 2012 R2 or later.

  • 8GB RAM

  • 4 CPU cores

Same as when classification is enabled.

Classification Server

  • Windows Server 2012 R2 or later. The operating system must be 64-bit.

  • 32GB RAM

  • 16 CPU cores

Same as when classification is enabled.

Note:

In case of smaller deployments that have less than 10 million files or folders per share, the Smart Classification functionality requires 32GB RAM and 16 CPU cores. The requirements are determined based on the tests performed on our internal setups.