Veritas InfoScale™ Virtualization Guide - Linux on ESXi

Configuring a Coordination Point server for Storage Foundation Cluster File System High Availability (SFCFSHA)

In the example SFCFSHA deployment, three CP servers are used. Each CP server will be housed in a virtual machine, with each one forming a single node CP server cluster. Each of the two physical ESX Servers will contain one CP server, and a third CP server will be located in another location. To illustrate the process, steps are given to deploy the cps1 node.

The installer script will be used to perform the deployment of Cluster Server (option 2). When running the Pre-Installation Check, the following packages will be detected as not installed:

CPI Error V-(-30-2225 The following required OS rpms (or higher 
version) were not found on cfs01: nss-softokn-freebl-3.12.9-3.el6.i686 
glibc-2.12-1.25.el6.i686 pam-1.1.1-8.el6.i686 libstdc++-4.4.5-6.el6.i686 
libgcc-4.4.5-6.el6.i686 ksh-20100621-6.el6.x86_64

The requirement for those missing packages SF 6.0 and 6.0.1 on RHEL 6.2/6.3 is documented in article TECH196954.

As explained, you must install the following packages before deploying Storage Foundation:

We are deploying on top of RedHat 6.2, and these are the RPMs installed:

Verify that CP servers can listen on port 14250. Disable the firewall rules or enter a new rule as explained at the beginning of this document to allow communication to this port

Verify that the CP servers have Password-less SSH connection to the cluster node where fencing configuration will be run.