Veritas InfoScale™ for Kubernetes Environments 8.0.100 - Linux

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Product(s): InfoScale & Storage Foundation (8.0.100)
  1. Overview
    1.  
      Introduction
    2.  
      Features of InfoScale in Containerized environment
    3.  
      CSI Introduction
    4.  
      I/O fencing
    5.  
      Disaster Recovery
    6.  
      Licensing
  2. System requirements
    1.  
      Introduction
    2.  
      Supported platforms
    3.  
      Disk space requirements
    4.  
      Hardware requirements
    5.  
      Number of nodes supported
    6.  
      DR support
  3. Preparing to install InfoScale on Containers
    1. Setting up the private network
      1.  
        Guidelines for setting the media speed for LLT interconnects
      2.  
        Guidelines for setting the maximum transmission unit (MTU) for LLT
    2.  
      Synchronizing time settings on cluster nodes
    3.  
      Securing your InfoScale deployment
    4.  
      Configuring kdump
  4. Installing Veritas InfoScale on OpenShift
    1.  
      Introduction
    2.  
      Prerequisites
    3.  
      Additional Prerequisites for Azure RedHat OpenShift (ARO)
    4. Installing InfoScale on a system with Internet connectivity
      1. Installing from OperatorHub by using web console
        1.  
          Adding Nodes to an InfoScale cluster by using OLM
        2.  
          Undeploying and uninstalling InfoScale
      2. Installing from OperatorHub by using Command Line Interface (CLI)
        1.  
          Configuring cluster
        2.  
          Adding nodes to an existing cluster
        3.  
          Undeploying and uninstalling InfoScale by using CLI
      3. Installing by using YAML
        1.  
          Configuring cluster
        2.  
          Adding nodes to an existing cluster
        3.  
          Undeploying and uninstalling InfoScale
    5. Installing InfoScale in an air gapped system
      1.  
        Prerequisites to install by using YAML
      2.  
        Prerequisites to install by using OLM
      3.  
        Installing from OperatorHub by using web console
      4.  
        Installing from OperatorHub by using Command Line Interface (CLI)
      5.  
        Installing by using YAML
  5. Installing Veritas InfoScale on Kubernetes
    1.  
      Introduction
    2. Prerequisites
      1.  
        Installing Node Feature Discovery (NFD) Operator and Cert-Manager on Kubernetes
    3.  
      Installing the Special Resource Operator
    4.  
      Applying licenses
    5. Tagging the InfoScale images on Kubernetes
      1.  
        Downloading side car images
    6. Installing InfoScale on Kubernetes
      1.  
        Configuring cluster
      2.  
        Adding nodes to an existing cluster
    7.  
      Undeploying and uninstalling InfoScale
  6. Tech Preview: Configuring KMS-based Encryption on an OpenShift cluster
    1.  
      Introduction
    2.  
      Adding a custom CA certificate
    3.  
      Configuring InfoScale to enable transfer of keys
  7. Tech Preview: Configuring KMS-based Encryption on a Kubernetes cluster
    1.  
      Introduction
    2.  
      Adding a custom CA certificate
    3.  
      Configuring InfoScale to enable transfer of keys
  8. InfoScale CSI deployment in Container environment
    1.  
      CSI plugin deployment
    2.  
      Static provisioning
    3. Dynamic provisioning
      1.  
        Reclaiming provisioned storage
    4.  
      Resizing Persistent Volumes (CSI volume expansion)
    5. Snapshot provisioning (Creating volume snapshots)
      1.  
        Dynamic provisioning of a snapshot
      2.  
        Static provisioning of an existing snapshot
      3.  
        Using a snapshot
      4.  
        Restoring a snapshot to new PVC
      5.  
        Deleting a volume snapshot
    6. Managing InfoScale volume snapshots with Velero
      1.  
        Setting up Velero with InfoScale CSI
      2.  
        Taking the Velero backup
      3.  
        Creating a schedule for a backup
      4.  
        Restoring from the Velero backup
    7. Volume cloning
      1.  
        Creating volume clones
      2.  
        Deleting a volume clone
    8.  
      Using InfoScale with non-root containers
    9.  
      Using InfoScale in SELinux environments
    10.  
      CSI Drivers
    11.  
      Creating CSI Objects for OpenShift
  9. Installing and configuring InfoScale DR Manager on OpenShift
    1.  
      Introduction
    2.  
      Prerequisites
    3.  
      Creating Persistent Volume for metadata backup
    4.  
      External dependencies
    5. Installing InfoScale DR Manager by using OLM
      1.  
        Installing InfoScale DR Manager by using web console
      2.  
        Configuring InfoScale DR Manager by using web console
      3.  
        Installing from OperatorHub by using Command Line Interface (CLI)
    6. Installing InfoScale DR Manager by using YAML
      1.  
        Configuring Global Cluster Membership (GCM)
      2.  
        Configuring Data Replication
      3.  
        Additional steps for Azure RedHat OpenShift(ARO) environment
      4.  
        Configuring DNS
      5.  
        Configuring Disaster Recovery Plan
  10. Installing and configuring InfoScale DR Manager on Kubernetes
    1.  
      Introduction
    2.  
      Prerequisites
    3.  
      Creating Persistent Volume for metadata backup
    4.  
      External dependencies
    5. Installing InfoScale DR Manager
      1.  
        Configuring Global Cluster Membership (GCM)
      2.  
        Configuring Data Replication
      3.  
        Configuring DNS
      4.  
        Configuring Disaster Recovery Plan
  11. Disaster Recovery scenarios
    1.  
      Migration
    2.  
      Takeover
  12. Configuring InfoScale
    1.  
      Logging mechanism
    2.  
      Configuring Veritas Oracle Data Manager (VRTSodm)
  13. Troubleshooting
    1.  
      Collecting logs by using SORT Data Collector
    2.  
      Known Issues
    3.  
      Limitations

Installing from OperatorHub by using web console

Complete the following steps to install InfoScale operator .

Note:

cert-manager (Red Hat-certified) must be already installed for a successful installation of InfoScale.

  1. Connect to the OpenShift console and access the Catalog menu.
  2. In the left frame, click Operators > OperatorHub. You can select and install the operator here.
  3. Enter InfoScale in All Items. The InfoScale SDS Operator and the InfoScale Licensing Operator are displayed.

    Note:

    If certified-operator catalogsource is not installed, you can install it by following identical steps.

  4. Select the InfoScale SDS Operator and click Install in the following screen.
  5. In the following screen, select infoscale-vtas in Installed Namespace and Manual in Update approval.

    Note:

    Veritas recommends these configurations. You can select any other Namespace (including openshift-operators) for installation. Selecting Manual as the Install plan avoids automatic updates of the operator.

  6. Click Install. InfoScale installation begins as under.
  7. In the left frame, select Operators > Installed Operators. In the following screen, click Upgrade available for infoscale-operator.
  8. In the screen that opens; In Review manual InstallPlan, click Preview InstallPlan followed by Approve as under. Installation begins.
  9. Wait till installation is complete. Special Resource Operator,InfoScale Licensing Operator, and Node Feature Discovery Operator along with InfoScale SDS operator are installed in infoscale-vtas or the namespace you provide. Cert-manager, Special Resource Operator, InfoScale Licensing Operator, and Node Feature Discovery Operator are the dependencies for InfoScale installation. If any of these dependencies are already installed in infoscale-vtas or openshift-operators, installation is skipped. License must be applied before installing InfoScale.
  10. In the left frame, select Operators > Installed Operators. Check if Status of all Operators is Succeeded as under.
  11. After all these Operators are installed successfully, click NodeFeatureDiscovery in Provided APIs.

    Note:

    If NFD instance is already created, go to step 16.

  12. In NodeFeatureDiscovery, click Create NodeFeatureDiscovery in the upper-right corner of the screen.
  13. In the CreateNodeDiscovery screen, click YAML view in Configure via:.

    • In metadata, change namespace to infoscale-vtas.

    • Optionally, in spec:operand, change namespace to infoscale-vtas.

  14. Click Create to create Node Feature Discovery instance.
  15. After a successful creation of Node Feature Discovery, click Workloads > Pods in the left frame. Review names of the listed pods. Node Feature Discovery must be created on all nodes and is indicated by a prefix nfd.
  16. You can now apply the license. Click Operators > Installed Operators in the left frame.
  17. Click License in Provided APIs.
  18. In the screen that opens, click Create License in the upper-right corner of your screen. The following screen opens.
  19. Assign a name. Use the cluster name to associate the license with the cluster.
  20. In License Edition, select the type of license.

    See Licensing.

    Note:

    If you want to install and configure Disaster Recovery (DR), you must have Trialware or Enterprise type of license.

  21. Click Create to apply the license.
  22. After the license is successfully applied, it is listed in Installed Operators > Operator details.
  23. You can click the license name for details.

    After the license is applied, you can configure the InfoScale cluster.

  24. Click Operators > Installed Operators in the left frame. You can now create an InfoScale cluster. Click InfoScale Cluster in Provided APIs.
  25. Click Create InfoScaleCluster in the upper-right corner of your screen. The following screen opens.
  26. Enter Name and InfoScale ClusterID for the cluster.

    Note:

    If you do not enter InfoScale ClusterID, vrts is prefixed to the worker node names.

    Click InfoScale Cluster Information. Enter information about the nodes here.

  27. Enter Node name . Optionally, you can enter IP addresses of nodes in Node IPs and the device path of the disk that you want to exclude from the InfoScale disk group in Exclude-device list. For each node, you must add two IP addresses.

    Note:

    OpenShift cluster must have at least two nodes as minimum two nodes are needed to form a cluster.

  28. To add more nodes, click Add InfoScale Cluster Information. You can add up to 16 nodes. As InfoScale supports hyperconverged architecture, all worker nodes on the OpenShift cluster must be added to the InfoScale cluster.
  29. Click Create to create an InfoScale cluster.
  30. Wait till the cluster is created. Click Workload > Pods in the left frame. Review the name of the Node and Status in output similar to the following output. Status of the node must be 'Running'

    Here, InfoScale ClusterID is used in the worker node names as 'infoscale-sds-InfoScale ClusterID....'. If you do not assign InfoScale ClusterID, vrts is used in the worker node names.

  31. Click any of driver containers. The following screen opens.
  32. Click Terminal and run

    /etc/vx/bin/vxclustadm nidmap.

    Nodes are listed on screen. The status must be 'Joined'

After a successful deployment of InfoScale, diskgroup gets automatically created.