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InfoScale™ 9.0 Storage Foundation and High Availability Configuration and Upgrade Guide - Linux
Last Published:
2025-04-18
Product(s):
InfoScale & Storage Foundation (9.0)
Platform: Linux
- Section I. Introduction to SFHA
- Section II. Configuration of SFHA
- Preparing to configure
- Preparing to configure SFHA clusters for data integrity
- About planning to configure I/O fencing
- Setting up the CP server
- Planning your CP server setup
- Installing the CP server using the installer
- Configuring the CP server cluster in secure mode
- Setting up shared storage for the CP server database
- Configuring the CP server using the installer program
- Configuring the CP server manually
- Configuring CP server using response files
- Verifying the CP server configuration
- Configuring SFHA
- Configuring Storage Foundation High Availability using the installer
- Overview of tasks to configure SFHA using the product installer
- Required information for configuring Storage Foundation and High Availability Solutions
- Starting the software configuration
- Specifying systems for configuration
- Configuring the cluster name
- Configuring private heartbeat links
- Configuring the virtual IP of the cluster
- Configuring SFHA in secure mode
- Configuring a secure cluster node by node
- Adding VCS users
- Configuring SMTP email notification
- Configuring SNMP trap notification
- Configuring global clusters
- Completing the SFHA configuration
- About the License Audit Tool
- Verifying and updating licenses on the system
- Configuring SFDB
- Configuring Storage Foundation High Availability using the installer
- Configuring SFHA clusters for data integrity
- Setting up disk-based I/O fencing using installer
- Setting up server-based I/O fencing using installer
- Setting up non-SCSI-3 I/O fencing in virtual environments using installer
- Setting up majority-based I/O fencing using installer
- Enabling or disabling the preferred fencing policy
- Manually configuring SFHA clusters for data integrity
- Setting up disk-based I/O fencing manually
- Setting up server-based I/O fencing manually
- Preparing the CP servers manually for use by the SFHA cluster
- Generating the client key and certificates manually on the client nodes
- Configuring server-based fencing on the SFHA cluster manually
- Configuring CoordPoint agent to monitor coordination points
- Verifying server-based I/O fencing configuration
- Setting up non-SCSI-3 fencing in virtual environments manually
- Setting up majority-based I/O fencing manually
- Performing an automated SFHA configuration using response files
- Performing an automated I/O fencing configuration using response files
- Configuring I/O fencing using response files
- Response file variables to configure disk-based I/O fencing
- Sample response file for configuring disk-based I/O fencing
- Response file variables to configure server-based I/O fencing
- Sample response file for configuring server-based I/O fencing
- Response file variables to configure non-SCSI-3 I/O fencing
- Sample response file for configuring non-SCSI-3 I/O fencing
- Response file variables to configure majority-based I/O fencing
- Sample response file for configuring majority-based I/O fencing
- Section III. Upgrade of SFHA
- Planning to upgrade SFHA
- About the upgrade
- Supported upgrade paths
- Considerations for upgrading SFHA to 9.0 on systems configured with an Oracle resource
- Preparing to upgrade SFHA
- Considerations for upgrading REST server
- Using Install Bundles to simultaneously install or upgrade full releases (base, maintenance, rolling patch), and individual patches
- Upgrading Storage Foundation and High Availability
- Performing a rolling upgrade of SFHA
- Performing a phased upgrade of SFHA
- About phased upgrade
- Performing a phased upgrade using the product installer
- Moving the service groups to the second subcluster
- Upgrading the operating system on the first subcluster
- Upgrading the first subcluster
- Preparing the second subcluster
- Activating the first subcluster
- Upgrading the operating system on the second subcluster
- Upgrading the second subcluster
- Finishing the phased upgrade
- Performing an automated SFHA upgrade using response files
- Upgrading SFHA using YUM
- Performing post-upgrade tasks
- Optional configuration steps
- Re-joining the backup boot disk group into the current disk group
- Reverting to the backup boot disk group after an unsuccessful upgrade
- Recovering VVR if automatic upgrade fails
- Post-upgrade tasks when VCS agents for VVR are configured
- Resetting DAS disk names to include host name in FSS environments
- Upgrading disk layout versions
- Upgrading VxVM disk group versions
- Updating variables
- Setting the default disk group
- About enabling LDAP authentication for clusters that run in secure mode
- Verifying the Storage Foundation and High Availability upgrade
- Planning to upgrade SFHA
- Section IV. Post-installation tasks
- Section V. Adding and removing nodes
- Adding a node to SFHA clusters
- About adding a node to a cluster
- Before adding a node to a cluster
- Adding a node to a cluster using the Veritas InfoScale installer
- Adding the node to a cluster manually
- Adding a node using response files
- Configuring server-based fencing on the new node
- After adding the new node
- Adding nodes to a cluster that is using authentication for SFDB tools
- Updating the Storage Foundation for Databases (SFDB) repository after adding a node
- Removing a node from SFHA clusters
- Removing a node from a SFHA cluster
- Verifying the status of nodes and service groups
- Deleting the departing node from SFHA configuration
- Modifying configuration files on each remaining node
- Removing the node configuration from the CP server
- Removing security credentials from the leaving node
- Unloading LLT and GAB and removing InfoScale Availability or Enterprise on the departing node
- Updating the Storage Foundation for Databases (SFDB) repository after removing a node
- Removing a node from a SFHA cluster
- Adding a node to SFHA clusters
- Section VI. Configuration and upgrade reference
- Appendix A. Installation scripts
- Appendix B. SFHA services and ports
- Appendix C. Configuration files
- Appendix D. Configuring the secure shell or the remote shell for communications
- About configuring secure shell or remote shell communication modes before installing products
- Manually configuring passwordless ssh
- Setting up ssh and rsh connection using the installer -comsetup command
- Setting up ssh and rsh connection using the pwdutil.pl utility
- Restarting the ssh session
- Enabling rsh for Linux
- Appendix E. Sample SFHA cluster setup diagrams for CP server-based I/O fencing
- Appendix F. Configuring LLT over UDP
- Using the UDP layer for LLT
- Manually configuring LLT over UDP using IPv4
- Broadcast address in the /etc/llttab file
- The link command in the /etc/llttab file
- The set-addr command in the /etc/llttab file
- Selecting UDP ports
- Configuring the netmask for LLT
- Configuring the broadcast address for LLT
- Sample configuration: direct-attached links
- Sample configuration: links crossing IP routers
- Using the UDP layer of IPv6 for LLT
- Manually configuring LLT over UDP using IPv6
- About configuring LLT over UDP multiport
- Appendix G. Using LLT over RDMA
- Using LLT over RDMA
- About RDMA over RoCE or InfiniBand networks in a clustering environment
- How LLT supports RDMA capability for faster interconnects between applications
- Using LLT over RDMA: supported use cases
- Configuring LLT over RDMA
- Choosing supported hardware for LLT over RDMA
- Installing RDMA, InfiniBand or Ethernet drivers and utilities
- Configuring RDMA over an Ethernet network
- Configuring RDMA over an InfiniBand network
- Tuning system performance
- Manually configuring LLT over RDMA
- LLT over RDMA sample /etc/llttab
- Verifying LLT configuration
- Troubleshooting LLT over RDMA
- IP addresses associated to the RDMA NICs do not automatically plumb on node restart
- Ping test fails for the IP addresses configured over InfiniBand interfaces
- After a node restart, by default the Mellanox card with Virtual Protocol Interconnect (VPI) gets configured in InfiniBand mode
- The LLT module fails to start
Performing a rolling upgrade of SFHA from 7.4.2 or later to 9.0
To perform a rolling upgrade
- Log in as superuser and mount the product installation media.
- Start the installer from the root folder.
# ./installer
- From the menu, select Upgrade a Product and from the submenu, select Rolling Upgrade.
- The installer suggests system names for the upgrade. Press Enter to upgrade the suggested systems, or enter the name of any one system in the cluster on which you want to perform a rolling upgrade and then press Enter.
The installer checks system communications, release compatibility, version information, and lists the cluster name, ID, and cluster nodes. Press y to continue.
- The installer lists the running service groups and determines the nodes to upgrade during the rolling upgrade. Press y to continue. If you choose to specify the nodes, press n and enter the names of the nodes.
- The installer performs further prechecks on the nodes in the cluster and may present warnings. You can press y to continue or quit the installer and address the warnings from the precheck.
- Review the end-user license agreement, and press y if you agree to its terms.
- If the boot disk is encapsulated and mirrored, you can create a backup boot disk.
If you choose to create a backup boot disk, press y. Provide a backup name for the boot disk group or accept the default name. The installer then creates a backup copy of the boot disk group.
- After the installer detects the online service groups, it prompts you to choose whether to:
Manually switch service groups
Let the product installer automatically switch service groups
The downtime is equivalent to the time that it typically takes to fail over a service group.
Note:
Veritas recommends that you manually switch the service groups. Automatic switching of service groups does not resolve dependency issues if any dependent resource is not under VCS control.
- The installer prompts you to stop the applicable processes. Press y to continue.
The installer evacuates all the service groups to the node or the nodes that are not upgraded at this time.
- The installer stops the relevant processes, uninstalls the old kernel RPMs, and installs the new RPMs. It asks if you want to update your licenses to the current version; select Yes or No. Veritas recommends that you update your licenses to fully use the new features in the current release.
- If the cluster has configured coordination point server-based fencing, the installer may ask you to provide the new HTTPS coordination point server. Provide the value if your are prompted for this input.
- The installer asks if you want to perform the rolling upgrade. Select Yes to continue.
The installer performs the upgrade configuration and starts the processes. If the boot disk is encapsulated before the upgrade, the installer prompts you to reboot the node after performing the upgrade configuration.
- Complete the preparatory steps on the nodes that you have not yet upgraded.
- On all the nodes, unmount all VxFS file systems that are not under VCS control.
# umount mount_point
- If operating system updates are not required, skip this step. Proceed to step 17.
Otherwise, complete the updates to the operating system on the nodes that you have not yet upgraded. For instructions, see the operating system documentation.
Repeat steps 1 to 12 for each node.
When the rolling upgrade is complete on the first subcluster, the rolling upgrade begins on the second subcluster.
- Offline all cache areas on the remaining node or nodes.
# sfcache offline cachename
- The installer begins the rolling upgrade on the remaining nodes. Press y to continue the rolling upgrade. If the installer was invoked on the upgraded (rebooted) nodes, you must invoke the installer again.
Note:
In case of an FSS environment, rolling upgrade is performed on one node at a time.
The installer repeats step 5 through step 15.
For clusters with a large number of nodes, this process may repeat several times. Service groups are taken down and brought up to accommodate the upgrade.
- When the rolling upgrade completes, manually mount all the VxFS file systems that are not under VCS control.
- If you have network connection to the Internet, the installer checks for updates.
If updates are discovered, you can apply them now.
- The installer asks you whether you want to read the installation summary file. Press y if you want to read the file.