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InfoScale™ 9.0 Storage Foundation and High Availability Configuration and Upgrade Guide - Solaris
Last Published:
2025-04-18
Product(s):
InfoScale & Storage Foundation (9.0)
Platform: Solaris
- 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 Boot Environment upgrade
- Performing post-upgrade tasks
- Optional configuration steps
- 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
- Upgrading the Array Support Library
- Converting from QuickLog to Multi-Volume support
- 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 and disabling rsh for Solaris
- Appendix E. Sample SFHA cluster setup diagrams for CP server-based I/O fencing
- Appendix F. Reconciling major/minor numbers for NFS shared disks
- Appendix G. 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
Upgrading Storage Foundation and High Availability with the product installer
This section describes upgrading to the current Storage Foundation and High Availability, and you do not intend to upgrade your Solaris version. Only use this procedure if you are already running a version of Solaris that is supported with 9.0.
To upgrade Storage Foundation and High Availability
- Log in as superuser.
- Unmount any mounted VxFS file systems.
The installer supports the upgrade of multiple hosts, if each host is running the same version of VxVM and VxFS. Hosts must be upgraded separately if they are running different versions.
If any VxFS file systems are mounted with the QuickLog feature, QuickLog must be disabled before you upgrade. See the "Veritas QuickLog" chapter of the Veritas File System Administrator's Guide for more information.
- If you upgrade a high availability (HA) product, take all service groups offline.
List all service groups:
# /opt/VRTSvcs/bin/hagrp -list
For each service group listed, take it offline:
# /opt/VRTSvcs/bin/hagrp -offline service_group \ -sys system_name
- Enter the following commands on each node to freeze HA service group operations:
# haconf -makerw # hasys -freeze -persistent nodename # haconf -dump -makero
- If your system has separate /opt and /var file systems, make sure that they are mounted before proceeding with installation.
- If replication using VVR is configured, verify that all the Primary RLINKs are up-to-date:
# vxrlink -g diskgroup status rlink_name
Note:
Do not continue until the Primary RLINKs are up-to-date.
- Load and mount the disc.
- To invoke the common installer, run the installer command on the disc as shown in this example:
# cd /cdrom/cdrom0 # ./installer
- Enter G to upgrade and press Enter.
- You are prompted to enter the system names (in the following example, "host1"). Enter the system name or names and then press Return.
Enter the system names separated by spaces on which to install SFHA: host1
Depending on your existing configuration, various messages and prompts may appear. Answer the prompts appropriately.
- Installer asks if you agree with the terms of the End User License Agreement. Press y to agree and continue.
- The installer then prompts you to name the backup boot disk group. Enter the name for it or press Enter to accept the default.
Note:
The split operation can take some time to complete.
- You are prompted to start the split operation. Press y to continue.
- Stop the product's processes.
Do you want to stop SFHA processes now? ? [y,n,q] (y) y
- The installer lists the packages to install or upgrade, and performs the installation or upgrade.
- The installer verifies, configures, and starts the Storage Foundation software.
- Only perform this step if you have split the boot disk group into a backup disk group. After a successful restart, verify the upgrade and re-join the backup disk group. If the upgrade fails, revert to the backup disk group.