Veritas InfoScale™ 7.4 Installation Guide - Solaris

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Product(s): InfoScale & Storage Foundation (7.4)
Platform: Solaris
  1. Section I. Planning and preparation
    1. Introducing Veritas InfoScale
      1.  
        About the Veritas InfoScale product suite
      2.  
        Components of the Veritas InfoScale product suite
      3.  
        About the co-existence of Veritas InfoScale products
    2. Licensing Veritas InfoScale
      1.  
        About Veritas InfoScale product licensing
      2.  
        Licensing notes
      3.  
        Registering Veritas InfoScale using permanent license key file
      4.  
        Registering Veritas InfoScale using keyless license
      5. 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 and SF Sybase CE hardware requirements
        4.  
          VCS hardware requirements
      4.  
        Supported operating systems and database versions
      5.  
        Veritas File System requirements
      6.  
        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 up shared storage: SCSI disks
        2.  
          Setting up shared storage: Fibre Channel
      8.  
        Synchronizing time settings on cluster nodes
      9.  
        Creating a root user
      10.  
        Configuring LLT interconnects to use Jumbo Frames
      11.  
        Creating the /opt directory
      12. Planning the installation setup for SF Oracle RAC and SF Sybase CE 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
      13.  
        Making the IPS publisher accessible
      14.  
        Preparing zone environments
  2. Section II. Installation of Veritas InfoScale
    1. Installing Veritas InfoScale using the installer
      1.  
        Installing Veritas InfoScale using the installer
    2. Installing Veritas InfoScale using response files
      1. About response files
        1.  
          Syntax in the response file
      2.  
        Installing Veritas InfoScale using response files
      3.  
        Response file variables to install Veritas InfoScale
      4.  
        Sample response files for Veritas InfoScale installation
    3. Installing Veritas Infoscale using operating system-specific methods
      1.  
        About installing Veritas InfoScale using operating system-specific methods
      2. Installing Veritas InfoScale on Solaris 11 using Automated Installer
        1.  
          About Automated Installation
        2.  
          Using Automated Installer
        3.  
          Using AI to install the Solaris 11 operating system and Veritas InfoScale products
      3. Manually installing packages on Solaris 11 systems
        1.  
          Manually installing packages on Oracle Solaris 11 systems
        2.  
          Manually installing packages on Solaris non-global zones
    4. Completing the post installation tasks
      1.  
        Verifying product installation
      2.  
        Setting environment variables
      3.  
        Disabling the abort sequence on SPARC systems
      4.  
        Next steps after installation
  3. Section III. Uninstallation of Veritas InfoScale
    1. Uninstalling Veritas InfoScale using the installer
      1. About removing Veritas InfoScale
        1. Preparing to uninstall
          1.  
            Remote uninstallation
          2. Preparing to remove Veritas Volume Manager
            1.  
              Moving volumes from an encapsulated root disk
            2.  
              Moving volumes to disk partitions
            3.  
              Example of moving volumes to disk partitions on Solaris
          3.  
            Preparing to remove Veritas File System
      2.  
        Removing the Replicated Data Set
      3.  
        Uninstalling Veritas InfoScale packages using the installer
      4.  
        Uninstalling Veritas InfoScale using the pkgrm or pkg uninstall command
      5.  
        Manually uninstalling Veritas InfoScale packages on non-global zones on Solaris 11
      6.  
        Removing the Storage Foundation for Databases (SFDB) repository
    2. Uninstalling Veritas InfoScale using response files
      1.  
        Uninstalling Veritas InfoScale using response files
      2.  
        Response file variables to uninstall Veritas InfoScale
      3.  
        Sample response file for Veritas 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.  
        About the VRTSspt package troubleshooting tools
      3.  
        Incorrect permissions for root on remote system
      4.  
        Inaccessible system

Uninstalling Veritas InfoScale packages using the installer

Use the following procedure to remove Veritas InfoScale products.

Not all packages may be installed on your system depending on the choices that you made when you installed the software.

Note:

After you uninstall the product, you cannot access any file systems you created using the default disk layout version in Veritas InfoScale 7.4 with a previous version of Veritas InfoScale.

To shut down and remove the installed Veritas InfoScale packages

  1. Comment out or remove any Veritas File System (VxFS) entries from the file system table /etc/vfstab. Failing to remove these entries could result in system boot problems later.
  2. Unmount all mount points for VxFS file systems.
    # umount /mount_point
  3. If the VxVM package (VRTSvxvm) is installed, read and follow the uninstallation procedures for VxVM.

  4. Make sure you have performed all of the prerequisite steps.
  5. In an HA configuration, stop VCS processes on either the local system or all systems.

    To stop VCS processes on the local system:

    # hastop -local

    To stop VCS processes on all systems:

    # hastop -all
  6. Move to the /opt/VRTS/install directory and run the uninstall script.
    # cd /opt/VRTS/install
    # ./installer -uninstall
  7. The uninstall script prompts for the system name. Enter one or more system names, separated by a space, from which to uninstall Veritas InfoScale.
    Enter the system names separated by spaces: [q?] sys1 sys2
  8. The uninstall script prompts you to stop the product processes. If you respond yes, the processes are stopped and the packages are uninstalled.

    The uninstall script creates log files and displays the location of the log files.

  9. Most packages have kernel components. In order to ensure complete removal, a system reboot is recommended after all packages have been removed.
  10. To verify the removal of the packages, use the following commands:

    Solaris 11:

    # pkg list VRTS\*
  11. In case the uninstallation fails to remove any of the VRTS packages, check the installer logs for the reason for failure or try to remove the packages manually using the following command: 
    # pkgrm VRTSvxvm

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Preparing to remove Veritas Volume Manager