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1. installer Installing the Veritas software 37 Installing the Veritas Storage Foundation 5 0 software At the product status page enter C for the Configure an Installed Product and press Return The product installer is displayed You are prompted to enter the system names in the following example host1 and host2 on which the software is to be installed Enter the system name or names and then press Return Enter the system names separated by spaces on which to install product name hosti host2 At the following prompt enter y or press Return to configure the Storage Foundation product Are you ready to configure product name y n q y Y You have a VCS license and you are installing product name HA When prompted to configure VCS enter y to configure VCS on these systems Do you want to configure VCS on these systems at this time y n q y vy Enter the unique cluster name and Cluster ID number Enter the unique cluster name vcs cluster2 Enter the unique Cluster ID number between 0 65535 b 76 The installer discovers the NICs available on the first system and reports them Discovering NICs on hosti discovered lan0 lan1 lan2 Enter private heartbeat NIC information for each host Enter the NIC for the first private heartbeat link on hostl b lanl Would you like to configure a second private heartbeat link y n q b y Enter the NIC for the second private heartbeat link on host1
2. Veritas Storage Foundation Installation Guide HP UX 5 0 ntec Q symantec Veritas Storage Foundation Installation Guide Copyright 2006 Symantec Corporation All rights reserved Storage Foundation 5 0 Symantec the Symantec logo Veritas and Veritas Storage Foundation are trademarks or registered trademarks of Symantec Corporation or its affiliates in the U S and other countries Other names may be trademarks of their respective owners The product described in this document is distributed under licenses restricting its use copying distribution and decompilation reverse engineering No part of this document may be reproduced in any form by any means without prior written authorization of Symantec Corporation and its licensors if any THIS DOCUMENTATION IS PROVIDED AS IS AND ALL EXPRESS OR IMPLIED CONDITIONS REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES INCLUDING ANY IMPLIED WARRANTY OF MERCHANTABILITY FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE OR NON INFRINGEMENT ARE DISCLAIMED EXCEPT TO THE EXTENT THAT SUCH DISCLAIMERS ARE HELD TO BE LEGALLY INVALID SYMANTEC CORPORATION SHALL NOT BE LIABLE FOR INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES IN CONNECTION WITH THE FURNISHING PERFORMANCE OR USE OF THIS DOCUMENTATION THE INFORMATION CONTAINED IN THIS DOCUMENTATION IS SUBJECT TO CHANGE WITHOUT NOTICE The Licensed Software and Documentation are deemed to be commercial computer software and commercial computer software documentation
3. char device path grep version N awk print 2 On the node selected in step 1 incrementally upgrade the disk layout of this file system to layout Version 6 or 7 For example if you had a cluster mounted file system of disk layout Version 4 running with previous version of VxFS after upgrading to VxFS 5 0 you would need to upgrade the disk layout to Version 6 or 7 The incrementally upgrade is as follows vxupgrade n 5 mnt1 vxupgrade n 6 mnt1 vxupgrade n 7 mnt1 Installing the Veritas software 51 Upgrading VxFS disk layout versions 4 Onthe node selected in step 1 after the disk layout has been successfully upgraded unmount the file system umount mnt1 5 This file system can be mounted on all nodes of the cluster When to upgrade disk layout versions You must upgrade your older disk layout versions to make use of the extended features available in the VxFS 5 0 release Use the vxfsconvert or vxupgrade utilities to upgrade older disk layout versions to disk layout Version 7 as described in the following sections See the Veritas Storage Foundation Release Notes Caution Never upgrade the and stand file systems to disk layout Version 7 The HP UX bootloader does not support disk layout Version 7 When to use vxfsconvert You can use the vxfsconvert command to convert an unmounted HFS file system to a Veritas file system with disk layout Version 7 vxfsconvert device name See the v
4. For information on ordering SF Management Server visit http www symantec com enterprise sfms Supported HP UX operating systems Veritas Storage Foundation and Veritas Storage Foundation for Oracle can only be installed on a system running the September 2004 HP UX 11i version 2 0 release or later on the PA RISC or Itanium platforms To verify the operating system version Use the swlist command as follows swlist grep HPUXBaseAux HPUXBaseAux B 11 23 0409 HP UX Base OS Auxiliary JFS must be installed on your system prior to installing any Veritas software To verify that JFS is installed Use the swlist command as follows swlist 1 product JFS JFS B 11 23 The Base VxFS File System Preinstallation Instructions 13 General installation requirements Software and hardware requirements For information on hardware requirements see the Veritas Storage Foundation Release Notes For information on specific HA setup requirements see Chapter 2 Preparing to Install VCS 5 0 in the Veritas Cluster Server Installation Guide Database requirements The table identifies supported database and HP UX combinations if you plan to use Veritas Storage Foundation for Oracle Table 1 2 Supported database and HP UX combinations 9 2 Yes 10 1 Yes Additional Oracle information In order to use Veritas Extension for Oracle Disk Manager you must use Oracle9i release 92 or later Refer to Oracle bug number 1824061 To
5. one of the following ways HP UX operating system To administer the HP UX machine use the following command opt VRTSob bin vea Windows operating System To administer a remote HP UX machine from a Windows machine select Start gt Programs Veritas Veritas Enterprise Administrator Modifying connection access optional To allow users other than root to access VEA set up a group called vrtsadm in etc group and add the users to this group For example adding the following entry vrtsadm 600 root ed will allow the two users root and ed to access VEA Configuring the Veritas software 65 Configuring Veritas Volume Manager To specify a group other than vrtsadm you should add the group to etc group modify the Security key and restart the VEA server daemon as in the following example To modify connection access 1 Addanew group groupadd g gid veagrp 2 Edit etc group to add users to the group 3 Modify the Security key in the registry opt VRTSob bin vxregctl etc vx isis Registry setvalue Software Veritas VxSvc Current Version Security AccessGroups REG_SZ veagrp 4 Restart the VEA server opt VRTS bin vxsvcctrl restart Configuring Veritas Volume Manager If you deferred configuring VxVM during installation you can configure it by running the installvm script with the configure option To configure VxVM using the installvm script 1 Enterthe following commands cd dvdrom
6. sese 52 Upgrading the VxVM cluster protocol version esee 52 Installing the VEA client sese ie 53 Installing the VEA client on HP UX sese 53 Installing the VEA client on Microsoft Windows 53 Installing Veritas Volume Manager essere 54 Configuring the Veritas software Creating and configuring the repository database for DB2 and Oracle 57 Configuring Veritas Storage Foundation sess 61 Database configuration requirements eese 61 Setting administrative permissions essere 61 vxtunefs command permissions and Cached Quick I O 61 Configuring Veritas Enterprise Administrator essseseeeeee 62 Starting the VEA server sss tnnt nnne 64 Starting the VEA client i ect RE OTT 64 Configuring Veritas Volume Manager eene 65 Starting and enabling the configuration daemon 66 Enabling cluster support in VxVM Optional 67 Configuring Veritas File System sess 70 Uninstalling the Veritas software Summary of Veritas Storage Foundation uninstallation tasks 72 Dropping the repository database for Oracle sse 72 Shutting down cluster operations eessesesessseseeeeeereentnnnnnes 73 Removing the root disk from VxVM c
7. support veritas com 20 Preinstallation Instructions Veritas Volume Manager requirements Veritas Enterprise Administrator The Veritas Storage Foundation software must be installed and run on an HP UX machine The Veritas Enterprise Administrator VEA client can be installed and run on any HP UX Windows XP Windows NT Windows ME Windows 2000 or Windows 98 machine that supports the Java Runtime Environment Veritas Enterprise Administrator VEA is required to access the graphical user interface GUI for Veritas Storage Foundation You can use the GUI to administer disks volumes file systems and database functionality on local or remote machines One of the following packages needs to be installed and running on the client m VERITAS Enterprise Administrator VRTSobgui This is the client package for HP UX m VERITAS Enterprise Administrator for Windows windows VRTSobgui msi This is the client package for Windows Check the Veritas Storage Foundation Release Notes for any patch information before you install VEA Requirements The following are system recommendations for the GUI HP UX Minimum of 512MB of memory Windows XP NT ME 300MHz Pentium with at least 256MB of memory 2000 or 98 Cluster environment requirements If your configuration has a cluster which is a set of hosts that share a set of disks there are additional requirements To set up a cluster environment 1 If you plan to place the
8. 2 Maintenance Patch 5 set FastResync to off for each volume vxvol g diskgroup set fastresync off volume Configuring Veritas File System After installing Veritas File System you can create a file system on a disk slice or Veritas Volume Manager volume with the mk s command Before you can use this file system you must mount it with the mount command You can unmount the file system later with the umount command A file system can be automatically mounted at system boot time if you add an entry for it in the etc fstab file The Veritas specific commands are described in the Veritas File System guides and online manual pages See the Veritas File System Administrator s Guide Uninstalling the Veritas software Topics covered in this chapter include Summary of Veritas Storage Foundation uninstallation tasks on page 72 Dropping the repository database for Oracle on page 72 Shutting down cluster operations on page 73 Removing the root disk from VxVM control on page 73 Removing VxFS file systems and Storage Checkpoints on page 74 Moving volumes to disk partitions on page 74 Uninstalling Veritas Storage Foundation packages on page 79 Removing license files Optional on page 80 Uninstalling the Veritas Enterprise Administrator Client on page 81 Uninstalling Veritas Volume Manager on page 81 Uninstalling Veritas File System on page 82 Once you uninstall Veritas Volume Manager you will be left
9. Is this correct y n q y Adding repository information in VCS HA configuration Added repository information successfully in VCS HA configuration Repository configuration completed successfully for HA environment 2 Verify that the repository was configured If you are installing in a high availability configuration opt VRTS bin hagrp state Group Attribute System Value Sfua_Base State guan ONLINE Sfua_Base State plover OFFLINE Note Sfua_Base group should be online on one node in the cluster If you are installing in a stand alone configuration opt VRTSdbcom bin sfua db config o dbstatus Database dbed db is alive and well on server VERITAS DBMS3 host Configuring the Veritas software 61 Configuring Veritas Storage Foundation Configuring Veritas Storage Foundation Once you install and initialize all of the Veritas software you can take advantage of the various storage management features to ease the task of system and database administration Database configuration requirements Most relational database management system RDBMS software requires operating system parameters to be set prior to operation The Oracle database requires modifications to kernel settings before the databases will run correctly The most critical settings are normally located in the Shared Memory and Semaphore settings on HP UX For precise settings consult your current database installation and configuration docu
10. Services y n q n n A message displays notifying you of the information required to add users When prompted set the user name and or password for the Administrator Do you want to set the username and or password for the Admin user default username admin password password y n q n Enter n if you want to decline If you enter y you are prompted to change the password You are prompted to add another user to the cluster Do you want to add another user to the cluster y n q v Enter n if you want to decline enter y if you want to add another user You are prompted to verify the user Is this information correct y n q vy Enter y or n to verify if this information is correct You are prompted to configure the cluster management console Enter y or n to configure the cluster management console Do you want to configure the Cluster Management Console y n q n Y Enter the NIC for the Cluster Manager Web Console then confirm whether the NIC is to be the public NIC used by all systems Enter the NIC for Cluster Manager Web Console to use on hosti b hme0 Is hmeO to be the public NIC used by all systems y n q b y Enter the Virtual IP address for Cluster Manager Installing the Veritas software 39 Installing the Veritas Storage Foundation 5 0 software 16 You are prompted to verify the information Is this information correct y n q v Enter y or n to verify if this information is corre
11. Storage Agent Required VRTSdsm Veritas datacenter Storage Manager Required VRTSgcsha Veritas GCS High Availability Agents Required VRTSgcspr Veritas SAN Global Configuration Server Required Object Bus Provider VRTSdbms3 Symantec Shared DBMS Required VRTSperl Perl 5 8 8 Redistribution Required VRTSjre Veritas JRE Redistribution Required VRTSjre15 Symantec JRE Redistribution Required VRTSpbx Symantec Private Branch Exchange Required VRTSspt Veritas Software Support Tools Required VRTSdsa Veritas Datacenter Storage Agent Required VRTSvdid Veritas Device Identification API Required VRTSdbms3 Veritas Shared DBMS Required VRTScs Veritas Storage Foundation Management Required Server VRTScsdoc Veritas Storage Foundation Management Required Server VRTSmh Veritas Centralized Management for Storage Required Foundation VRTScpi Veritas Cross Product Installation Required Framework 91 92 Veritas Storage Foundation install packages Veritas Storage Foundation install packages Table A 1 Storage Foundation packages LINE es oe VRTSpbx Symantec Private Branch Exchange Required VRTSsmf Symantec Service Management Framework Required VRTSat Symantec Product Authentication Service Required VRTSspt Veritas Software Support Tools Required windows vrtsobg Veritas Enterprise Administrator for Optional ui msi Windows Veritas Volume Replicator VRTSvrpro Veritas Volume Replicator Client Extension Required and Provider for Veritas
12. Uninstall and select the Veritas File System Enter one or more system names to uninstall Veritas File System For example Enter the system names separated by spaces on which to uninstall VxFS system01 After the system check completes successfully press Return to continue Enter y to uninstall the VxFS packages For example Are you sure you want to uninstall VxFS packages y n q l v After uninstallation completes reboot the system sbin usr shutdown r y now Appendix Installation script options If you choose to install using the product installation script or if you obtained a Veritas product from an electronic download site which does not include the product installer you have several script options Use the table to determine which installation script to use If you are installing Use Veritas Storage Foundation installsf Veritas Storage Foundation for Oracle installsfora To use the installation script enter the script name at the prompt For example to install Veritas Storage Foundation type installsf at the prompt Then go to step 2 in Installing using the product installer on page 34 The following options apply to all Veritas Storage Foundation products Installation Script Options The following options are available when using the product installation script For an initial install or upgrade options are not usually required Table A 6 Available command line options system1 system2 S
13. a fresh installation is not possible You must perform an upgrade to move to the 5 0 versions of the Veritas products Caution After you install the 5 0 software the Veritas Volume Manager 3 5 or 4 1 software that was bundled with the HP UX operating system is no longer available To reinstall Veritas Volume Manager 3 5 or 4 1 you must use your HP UX software discs Because you can only have one version of Veritas Volume Manager on your system if you choose to reinstall Veritas Volume Manager 3 5 or 4 1 with the appropriate swinstall options to downgrade the version the 5 0 software will no longer be available Installing the 5 0 Veritas software will not overwrite Veritas File System 3 5 Both the 5 0 and 3 5 versions will coexist on your system When the 5 0 version is uninstalled the system will automatically switch to use the 3 5 version of Veritas File System Installing the 5 0 Veritas software will overwrite Veritas File System 4 1 After installing the 5 0 version of Veritas File System to revert back to the 4 1 version you must uninstall the 5 0 version and then re install the 4 1 version The 4 1 and 5 0 versions of Veritas File System cannot coexist Installation requirements If you are not running the September 2004 HP UX 11i version 2 0 release upgrade HP UX on your system before you install the new Veritas software See Upgrading HP UX on page 26 Only users with superuser privileges can install upgrade
14. available in q4 p4 PHKL 32431 Changes to disallow mounting of a file system on a vnode having VNOMOUNT set Enhancements for supporting quotas on large uids PHKL 33312 LVM Cumulative patch PHKL 34010 Cumulative VM patch In addition to the above patches the Enablevxrs bundle needs to be installed before installing the VxFS 5 0 file system This bundle is an HP bundle and contains enhancements to various commands to understand the new disk layout Version 6 and later The Enablevxrs bundle contains the following patches Table 2 EnableVXFS bundle FsLibEnh Enhancements to LIBC libraries to understand VxFS disk layout Version 6 and later DiskQuota Enh Enhancements to various quota related commands to support large uids FsCmdsEnh Enhancements to the mount command to support VxFS 4 1 16 Preinstallation Instructions General installation requirements Disk space Note Install all the latest required HP UX patches before you install Veritas Storage Foundation You can use the swlist command to determine whether the correct update and patches are installed The installation procedure terminates if the correct patches are not found Make sure that EnableVXFS bundle has revision B 11 23 04 or later after installing the latest patches HP may release patches that supersede the ones in this list To verify that you have the latest HP UX patches go to the Veritas support website to view the following
15. grep VRTSorgui VRTSorgui 5 0 Veritas Storage Foundation Graphical User Interface for Oracle Stop the VEA server opt VRTS bin vxsvcctrl stop Use the vxdbedusr command to remove a group or user opt VRTS bin vxdbedusr r lt user or group gt n lt user_name or group_name gt where r removes a user or user group from the registry For example to remove the user oracle enter the following opt VRTS bin vxdbedusr r user n oracle 64 Configuring the Veritas software Configuring Veritas Enterprise Administrator 4 Restart the VEA Server opt VRTS bin vxsvcctrl start Starting the VEA server After installing the VEA packages the VEA server needs to be stopped and restarted To check the state of the VEA server enter opt VRTS bin vxsvcctrl status To stop the VEA server enter opt VRTS bin vxsvcctrl stop You can also stop the VEA server manually by killing the vxsvc process Note The VEA server is automatically started on a reboot To start the VEA server enter opt VRTS bin vxsvcctrl start Starting the VEA client Only users with appropriate privileges can run VEA VEA can administer the local machine or a remote machine However VxVM and the VEA server must be installed on the machine to be administered The VxVM vxconfigd daemon and the VEA server must be running on the machine to be administered After installing VxVM and VEA and starting the server start the VEA client in
16. in Mounting the software disc on page 33 4 Runthe swinstall command swinstall s dvdrom storage foundation pkgs 5 Select the software bundles VRTSobgui VRTSat VRTSpbx VRTSicsco for installation The VEA client package for HP UX is installed Installing the VEA client on Microsoft Windows The VEA client runs on Windows NT Windows XP Windows 2003 Windows 2000 Windows ME Windows 98 and Windows 95 machines Before you install VEA on a Windows machine you must uninstall any existing Veritas Volume Manager Storage Administrator VMSA packages and remove the old setup exe from that machine Only one VEA package can be installed on a Windows machine at any given time Note If you plan to install the GUI client on Windows NT 4 0 Windows Installer must be upgraded to version 2 0 For more information about upgrading Windows Installer visit http www microsoft com If you are using Windows NT 4 0 it is also recommended that you use Windows NT 4 0 Service Pack 6 54 Installing the Veritas software Installing Veritas Volume Manager To install the VEA client on a Windows machine 1 2 Insert the appropriate media disc into your system s DVD drive Using Windows Explorer or a DOS Command window go to the windows directory and execute the vrtsobgui msi program with Windows Installer Follow the instructions presented by the vrtsobgui msi program After installation is complete ensure environment cha
17. or 4 1 you must reinstall using your HP UX operating system discs Installing the 5 0 Veritas software will not overwrite OnlineJFS which came bundled with the OS They coexist and when VxFS 5 0 is removed OnlineJFS is used as a default file system Note If you have obtained a Veritas product from an electronic download site the single product download files do not contain the product installer so you must use the product installation script to install the product See Installation script options on page 83 After invoking the appropriate script follow the instructions in Installing using the product installer on page 34 starting with step 2 Mounting the software disc You must have superuser root privileges to load the Veritas software To mount the software disc 1 Place the Veritas software disc into a DVD drive connected to your system and login as superuser su root 2 Determine the block device file for the DVD drive ioscan fnC disk Make a note of the device file as it applies to your system 3 Create a directory in which to mount the software disc and mount the disc using the appropriate drive name 34 Installing the Veritas software Installing the Veritas Storage Foundation 5 0 software For example mkdir p dvdrom usr sbin mount F cdfs dev dsk c3t2d0 dvdrom 4 Verify that the disc is mounted mount To install use the procedure described in Installing using the product installe
18. root disk group under VxVM control decide into which disk group you want to configure it for each node in the cluster The root disk group usually aliased as boot dg contains the volumes that are used to boot the system VxVM sets bootdg to the appropriate disk group if it takes control of the root disk Otherwise bootdg is set to nodg To check the name of the disk group enter the command vxdg bootdg Preinstallation Instructions 21 Veritas Volume Manager requirements Decide on the layout of shared disk groups There may be one or more shared disk groups Determine how many you wish to use If you plan to use Dirty Region Logging DRL with VxVM in a cluster leave a small amount of space on the disk for these logs The log size is proportional to the volume size and the number of nodes Refer to the Veritas Volume Manager Administrator s Guide and the Veritas Storage Foundation Cross Platform Data Sharing Administrator s Guide for more information on DRL Install the license that supports the clustering feature on every node in the cluster See Enabling cluster support in VxVM Optional on page 67 Veritas File System requirements Before installing Veritas File System Review the Veritas Storage Foundation Release Notes s notes pdf located under the storage foundation release notes directory on the Veritas software disc Because product release notes are not installed by any packages Veritas recommends that you co
19. special the device on which the file system resides See the umount vxfs 1M manual page Note If using VxFS file system system partitions need not be unmounted To unmount a Storage Checkpoint 1 Check if any Storage Checkpoints are mounted cat etc mnttab grep vxfs 2 Unmount any Storage Checkpoints umount checkpoint_name Moving volumes to disk partitions All volumes must be moved to disk partitions This can be done using one of these procedures m Back up the system fully onto tape and then recover from it m Back up each file system individually and then recover them all after creating new file systems on disk partitions m Use VxVM to move volumes incrementally onto disk partitions as described in the following section Uninstalling the Veritas software 75 Moving volumes to disk partitions Moving volumes onto disk partitions To move volumes to disk partitions 1 10 Evacuate disks using vxdiskadm the GUI or the vxevac script Evacuation moves subdisks from the specified disks to target disks The evacuated disks provide the initial free disk space for volumes to be moved to disk partitions Remove the evacuated disks from VERITAS Volume Manager control by entering vxdg rmdisk diskname vxdisk rm devname Decide which volume to move first and if the volume is mounted unmount it If the volume is being used as a raw partition for database applications make sure that the applica
20. step 2 to the volume set vxvset addvol myvset log vol Add the log volume to the file system The size of the volume must be specified fsvoladm add mnti1 log vol 50m Move the log to the new volume fsadm o logdev log vol logsize 16m mnt1 Installing the Veritas software Topics covered in this chapter include m Installation requirements on page 24 m Summary of Veritas Storage Foundation installation tasks on page 25 m About existing licenses on page 26 m Upgrading HP UX on page 26 m Preparing to install the Veritas software on page 31 m Installing the Veritas Storage Foundation 5 0 software on page 33 m Upgrading to the new repository database for DB2 and Oracle on page 44 m Migrating from etc vx vxdba to var vx vxdba for DB2 and Oracle on page 45 m Verifying the Veritas Storage Foundation installation on page 45 m Converting to a VxVM root disk on page 48 m Upgrading VxFS disk layout versions on page 50 m Upgrading VxVM disk group versions on page 52 m Upgrading the VxVM cluster protocol version on page 52 m Installing the VEA client on page 53 m Installing Veritas Volume Manager on page 54 Note Only users with superuser root privileges can install Veritas products 24 Installing the Veritas software Installation requirements Because Veritas Volume Manager 3 5 and Veritas File System 3 5 are bundled in the September 2004 HP UX 11i version 2 0 release
21. the license keys and information about their respective products 2 Goto the directory containing the license key files and list them cd etc vx licenses lic ls a 3 Using the output from step 1 identify and delete unwanted key files listed in step 2 Unwanted keys may be deleted by removing the license key file Uninstalling the Veritas software 81 Uninstalling the Veritas Enterprise Administrator Client Uninstalling the Veritas Enterprise Administrator Client You should also remove the client software from any machines you used to access the Veritas software To remove the VEA client from an HP UX system other than the server 1 Stop the VEA Service opt VRTS bin vxsvcctrl stop Use the swremove command to remove the VRTSobgui software package swremove VRTSobgui VRTSat VRTSpbx VRTSicsco To remove the VEA client from a Windows system 1 2 3 4 Log in as the database administrator Select Start Settings Control Panel Double click Add Remove Programs to display a list of installed products Select Veritas Enterprise Administrator from the list and click the Remove button Click Yes when a dialog box appears asking you to confirm the removal Uninstalling Veritas Volume Manager This section describes how to uninstall Veritas Volume Manager and the product license To uninstall Veritas Storage Foundation or Veritas Storage Foundation for Oracle see Uninstalling Veritas Storage Foundat
22. use the Storage Mapping functionality you must install Oracle 9 2 0 5 or higher Refer to the appropriate Oracle installation guide that accompanied your Oracle software for additional preinstallation information Using asynchronous I O on Oracle If you did not use raw devices for your database it is likely that your system was not configured to perform asynchronous I O Veritas Storage Foundation for Oracle supports asynchonous I O on Quick I O files and Oracle Disk Manager files For the Oracle database to take advantage of the asynchronous I O capability offered by Veritas Storage Foundation for Oracle you must create the following device dev async Refer to your Oracle Administrator s Reference Guide for instructions on how to create this device 14 Preinstallation Instructions General installation requirements There are system and database configuration requirements that must be met before enabling asynchronous I O To make sure your environment meets those requirements see your Oracle documentation Required HP UX patches The 5 0 releases of Veritas Storage Foundation and Veritas Storage Foundation for Oracle require the following HP UX patches Table 1 Required HP UX patches PHCO 32385 Enables fscat 1M PHCO_32387 Enables getext 1M PHCO_32388 Enables setext 1M PHCO_32389 Enables vxdump 1M PHCO_32390 Enables vxrestore 1M PHCO_32391 Enables vx
23. volume manager 4 installvm configure 2 Thescript runs an initial system check and will tell you that you cannot configure already configured features such as enclosure based naming and default disk groups 3 Decide whether you want to set up the enclosure based naming scheme Do you want to set up the enclosure based naming scheme y n q 4 Youarethen asked if you want to set up a default disk group for each system 5 Do you want to set up a default disk group for each system y n q 6 Ifyou have a VVR license installed the next phase concerns configuration of VVR Do you want to change any of the VVR ports y n q 7 You are now asked questions regarding the frequency of VVR statistics collection 66 Configuring the Veritas software Configuring Veritas Volume Manager 8 The next phase of the configuration procedure consists of setting up a centrally managed host Enable Centralized Management y n q 9 Finally if you selected centralized management you will be asked a series of questions relating to hostnames 10 And finally you should see the message 11 startup completed successfully on all systems After the installation and configuration of VxVM is complete you can use the vxdiskadm command and the VEA GUI to create disk groups and to populate these with disks See the Veritas Volume Manager Administrator s Guide and the VEA online help for details Starting and enabling the configuration da
24. without volume management software on your machine Note The information in Uninstalling Veritas Storage Foundation packages on page 79 pertains to Veritas Storage Foundation and Veritas Storage Foundation for Oracle 72 Uninstalling the Veritas software Summary of Veritas Storage Foundation uninstallation tasks Summary of Veritas Storage Foundation uninstallation tasks Uninstallation of Veritas Storage Foundation products consists of the following tasks Dropping the repository database if you are uninstalling Veritas Storage Foundation for DB2 or Veritas Storage Foundation for Oracle Shutting down cluster operations Removing the root disk from VxVM control Removing VxFS file systems and Storage Checkpoints Moving volumes to disk partitions Removing the Veritas Storage Foundation Removing the license files optional Caution Failure to follow the instructions in the following sections may result in unexpected behavior See Uninstalling the Veritas Enterprise Administrator Client on page 81 for instructions on how to uninstall the VEA client from a Windows system Dropping the repository database for Oracle When uninstalling Veritas Storage Foundation for Oracle drop the repository database If you want to recreate the repository database you can drop the existing repository database using these steps To drop the repository database in a stand alone configuration 1 Make sure the reposi
25. 0 and Upgrading VxVM disk group versions on page 52 After you complete the installation procedure read Configuring the Veritas software on page 57 for important details about initializing where required setting up and using the Veritas software shipped with Veritas Storage Foundation the new repository database for DB2 If you are installing or upgrading Veritas Storage Foundation for DB2 or Veritas Storage Foundation for Oracle you need to either create a new repository database or migrate your old repository database to the new one To use the db2ed update Or dbed update command you must be the instance owner or database administrator To upgrade your repository database 1 Create and configure the new repository database with the s ua db config command opt VRTSdbcom bin sfua db config Migrate your old repository information into the new repository database If you are upgrading Veritas Storage Foundation for DB2 in a single host environment run the db2ed update command opt VRTS bin db2ed update D DB2DATABASE If you are upgrading Veritas Storage Foundation for DB2 in a high availability HA environment run the db2ed update command with the c option opt VRTS bin db2ed update D DB2DATABASE G service group If you are upgrading Veritas Storage Foundation for Oracle in a single host environment run the dbed update command opt VRTS bin dbed update S ORACLE SID H ORACLE HOME If you are up
26. 3 3 vxtunefs command does not recognize the VxFS 3 5 tunables and will fail if it tries to access them 2 Toremove all the Veritas File System packages enter swremove x autoreboot true VRTSvxfs VRTSfsdoc VRTSvlic Caution Do not remove the VRTSvlic package if there are any other Veritas products running on your system 3 Manually remove all device file entries for the QuickLog driver rm rf dev qlog Installation notes for the Veritas 5 0 software m Youcannot install the 5 0 Veritas software on an HP UX OS other than the September 2004 HP UX 11i version 2 0 or later release m When upgrading your OS you must remove all 3 5 and 4 1 level Veritas software except for Veritas Volume Manager m When you install Veritas Volume Manager 5 0 the installation will overwrite the 3 5 or 4 1 version of the software that came bundled with the OS m When you install Veritas File System 5 0 the installation will install the 5 0 version of the software in a different location It overwrites VxFS 3 5 VxFS 4 1 but OnlineJFS which came bundled with the OS remains and it is restored as a default file system when VxFS 5 0 is removed m Other packages such as the database packages will install normally Installing the Veritas software 31 Preparing to install the Veritas software Preparing to install the Veritas software Ensure that you have made backups of all data that you want to preserve In particular you will need
27. 55 Installing Veritas Volume Manager Enter a VxVM license key For example Enter a VxVM license key for system01 XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX X If required you can enter another license key by typing y at the following prompt Do you want to enter another license key for system02 y n q n After VxVM licensing completes successfully press Return to continue You will now be asked which depots should be installed 1 Required Veritas Volume Manager packages 698MB required 2 All Veritas Volume Manager packages 838 MB required 3 Storage Foundation Enterprise HA packages 1192 MB required Select the packages to be installed After the list of packages is displayed you will be told that you must reboot prior to reconfiguration After the Veritas Volume Manager installation completes successfully you will see a message identifying the location of log files You should save these files for future reference Reboot the system sbin usr shutdown r y now 56 Installing the Veritas software Installing Veritas Volume Manager Configuring the Veritas software This chapter covers important details about initializing where required setting up and configuring the Veritas software Topics covered in this chapter include m Creating and configuring the repository database for DB2 and Oracle on page 57 m Configuring Veritas Storage Foundation on page 61 m Configuring Veritas Enterprise Administr
28. AT RW sd sd1 p11 disk1 0 2098224 0 c1t12d0 DG NAME DM NAME RV NAME RL NAME V NAME UTYPE PL NAME MODE SD NAME MODE SV NAME MODE DC NAME SP NAME dg voldg 1017856044 1141 dm disk1 dm disk2 dm disk3 voli fsgen pl pit RW sd disk3 01 ENA sd sd2 ENA V Ej pt t E n lt gt E s Uninstalling the Veritas software 77 Moving volumes to disk partitions pli disk2 0 2098224 2098224 c1t14d0 Evacuate disk1 to disk3 etc vx bin vxevac g voldg disk1 disk3 vxprint g voldg ht NCONFIG NLOG MINORS GROUP ID DEVICE TYPE PRIVLEN PUBLEN STATE RLINK CNT KSTATE STATE PRIMARY DATAVOLS SRL RVG KSTATE STATE REM HOST REM DG REM RLNK RVG KSTATE STATE LENGTH READPOL PREFPLEX VOLUME KSTATE STATE LENGTH LAYOUT NCOL WID PLEX DISK DISKOFFS LENGTH COL OFF DEVICE PLEX VOLNAME NVOLLAYR LENGTH COL OFF AM NM PARENTVOL LOGVOL SNAPVOL DCO default default 115000 hostname veritas com c1t12d0 auto hpdisk 2591 17900352 c1t14d0 auto hpdisk 2591 17899056 c1lt3d0 auto hpdisk 2591 17899056 ENABLED ACTIVE 4196448 ROUND voli ENABLED ACTIVE 4196448 CONCAT p11 disk3 0 2098224 0 c1t3d0 pli disk2 0 2098224 2098224 c1t14d0 Evacuate disk2 to disk3 etc vx bin vxevac g voldg disk2 disk3 vxprint g voldg ht NCONFIG NLOG MINORS GROUP ID DEVICE TYPE PRIVLEN PUBLEN STATE RLINK_CNT KSTATE STATE PRIMARY DATAVOLS SRL RVG KSTATE STATE REM HOST REM DG REM RL
29. Enterprise Administrator VRTSvesvr Veritas Cluster Server Agents for VVR Required VRTSvrw Veritas Volume Replicator Web Console Required VRTSvrdoc Veritas Volume Replicator Documentation Optional Appendix Configuring the Symantec License Inventory Agent This appendix includes the following topics About the Symantec License Inventory Manager on page 98 When the Symantec License Inventory Agent is installed on page 99 When the server and access points are installed on page 99 What you can do with the agent after it is installed on page 99 How to remove the agent on page 100 How to order the Symantec License Inventory Manager license and media kit on page 101 The Symantec License Inventory Manager installation disc is available separately For information on how to order the full product see How to order the Symantec License Inventory Manager license and media kit on page 101 The installation media provides online documentation with details on all topics discussed in this appendix Read the following Technical Support TechNote for the latest information on updates patches and software issues regarding this product http support veritas com docs 282183 You can also download the Symantec License Inventory Agent 4 1 Release Notes from this website 98 Configuring the Symantec License Inventory Agent About the Symantec License Inventory Manager About the Symantec License Inventory Manager The S
30. If you are upgrading from a previous release of VxVM verify that your shared disk groups still exist To verify that your shared disk groups exist 1 2 Start the cluster on all nodes Enter the following command on all nodes vxdg list This displays the existing shared disk groups Configuring the Veritas software 69 Configuring Veritas Volume Manager Converting existing VxVM disk groups to shared disk groups Use this procedure if you are upgrading from VxVM 3 x to VxVM 5 0 or Storage Foundation 3 x to a Storage Foundation product at the 5 0 level and you want to convert existing disk groups to shared disk groups To convert existing disk groups to shared disk groups 1 Start the cluster on at least one node For a two node cluster start the cluster on one node for a four node cluster start the cluster on three nodes Configure the disk groups using the following procedure To list all disk groups use the following command vxdg list To deport disk groups to be shared use the following command vxdg deport disk_group_name To import disk groups to be shared use the following command on the master node vxdg s import disk_group_name This procedure marks the disks in the shared disk groups as shared and stamps them with the ID of the cluster enabling other nodes to recognize the shared disks If dirty region logs exist ensure they are active If not replace them with larger ones To display the shared f
31. NK RVG KSTATE STATE LENGTH READPOL PREFPLEX VOLUME KSTATE STATE LENGTH LAYOUT NCOL WID PLEX DISK DISKOFFS LENGTH COL OFF DEVICE PLEX VOLNAME NVOLLAYR LENGTH COL OFF AM NM 78 Uninstalling the Veritas software Moving volumes to disk partitions MODE DC NAME PARENTVOL LOGVOL SP NAME SNAPVOL DCO dg voldg default default 115000 1017856044 1141 hostname veritas com dm disk1 c1t12d0 auto hpdisk 2591 17900352 dm disk2 c1t14d0 auto hpdisk 2591 17899056 dm disk3 c1t3d0 auto hpdisk 2591 17899056 v voll Ed ENABLED ACTIVE 4196448 ROUND fsgen pl pll voli ENABLED ACTIVE 4196448 CONCAT RW sd disk3 01 pli disk3 0 2098224 0 cit3d0 ENA sd disk3 02 pli disk3 2098224 2098224 2098224 c1t3d0 ENA Remove the evacuated disks from VERITAS Volume Manager control vxdisk g voldg list DEVICE TYPE DISK GROUP STATUS c1t3d0 auto hpdisk disk3 voldg online c1t12d0 auto hpdisk disk1 voldg online citi4d0 auto hpdisk disk2 voldg online vxdg rmdisk disk1 vxdg rmdisk disk2 vxdisk rm ci1t12d0 vxdisk rm ci1ti14d0 Verify that the evacuated disks have been removed from VERITAS Volume Manager control vxdisk g voldg list DEVICE TYPE DISK GROUP STATUS c1t3d0 auto hpdisk disk3 voldg online Check to see whether the volume you want to move first is mounted mount grep voli voll on dev vx dsk voldg vol1 read write setuid log nolargefiles dev 12dc138 on Wed Apr 3 10 13 11 2002 Create a partition o
32. NNING 0 A host2 RUNNING 0 GROUP STATE Group System Probed AutoDisabled State B ClusterService host1 Y N ONLINE B ClusterService host2 Y N OFFLINE Identify the system state of each node in the output of this command If the value is RUNNING for all the nodes VCS is successfully installed and running Refer to the hastatus 1M manual page and the Veritas Cluster Server User s Guide for more information on system states and state transitions Installing the Veritas software 47 Verifying the Veritas Storage Foundation installation About Low Latency Transport The file 11 thosts 4 is a database containing one entry per node that links the Low Latency Transport LLT system ID in the first column with the LLT host name This file is identical on each cluster node Based on the sample installation the file etc 11thosts contains the entries 0 hosti 1 host2 The file 11ttab 1M contains information derived from the installation and used by the utility 11tconfig 1M After installation this file lists the network links that correspond to the specific node The first line identifies the node The second line identifies the cluster based on the cluster ID entered during installation The next two lines beginning with the link command identify the two network cards used by the LLT protocol See the 11ttab 4 manual page for details on how to modify the LLT configuration The manual page describes ordering the directives in
33. TechNote http support veritas com docs 281875 Also you can get the patches from Hewlett Packard s Patch Database offered under the Maintenance and Support section of the HP Services amp Support IT Resource Center HP s Patch Database provides fast accurate searches for the latest recommended and superseded patches available for Veritas File System or Veritas Volume Manager Note Most of the above patches are available in the Feature11i bundle The Feature1li bundle and the EnableVxFS bundle are available from HP software download site http h20293 www2 hp com Search for Veritas 5 0 on this site and follow the instructions Before installing any of the Veritas Storage Foundation products confirm that your system has enough free disk space Use the Perform a Preinstallation Check P option of the product installer to determine whether there is sufficient space The following table shows the approximate disk space used by the Storage Foundation products for all both the required and optional packages Disk space requirements Storage Foundation Standard 698 MB 850 MB Storage Foundation Enterprise 699 MB 851 MB Storage Foundation Enterprise HA 1131 MB 1311 MB opt directory Preinstallation Instructions 17 General installation requirements Disk space requirements Storage Foundation for Oracle 1643 MB 1684 MB Standard or Enterprise Storage Foundation for Oracle 1784 MB 1889 MB Ente
34. ading HP UX Table 2 3 3 5 Patches Veritas Database Edition for Oracle PVCO 03604 Update 2 Note Veritas Database Edition for PVCO 03606 Update 2 Oracle is now Veritas Storage PVKL 03609 Update 2 Foundation for Oracle PVCO 03633 Update 3 PVCO 03634 Update 3 PVKL 03635 Update 3 Veritas Enterprise Administrator PHCO 28651 Update 1 PHCO 28656 Update 1 PHCO 28692 Update 2 PHCO 28693 Update 2 PHCO 30730 Update 3 PHCO 30731 Update 3 PHCO 30700 Update 3 PHCO 31203 Update 3 5 After removing the patches restart the VEA service opt VRTSob bin vxsvcctrl start Removing packages Refer to the appropriate set of steps to either remove Veritas Database Edition 3 5 for Oracle or Veritas File System 3 5 Note If you have Veritas Database Edition 3 5 for Oracle installed the removeDBED script will remove Veritas File System 3 5 You do not need to remove Veritas File System separately To remove the Veritas Database Edition 3 5 for Oracle packages 1 Shutdown Veritas Volume Manager Use the vxdct1 and vxiod commands as follows vxdctl stop vxiod f set 0 2 Runthe removepBED script as follows opt VRTSdbed bin removeDBED 30 Installing the Veritas software Upgrading HP UX To remove the Veritas File System 3 5 software 1 Check etc vx tunefstab and remove any VxFS 3 5 tunable settings Note Three tunables hsm write prealloc read ahead and write throttle were added in VxFS 3 5 The JFS OnLineJFS
35. age Checkpoint option Veritas Storage Mapping option Optionally licensed features Veritas Volume Replicator Note If you are installing Veritas Volume Replicator see the Veritas Volume Replicator Installation Guide on the product disc The Veritas Volume Replicator Installation Guide explains how to install the product and directs you to the Veritas Volume Replicator documentation General installation requirements Before installing Veritas Storage Foundation read the following sections to make sure you understand and comply with the basic requirements of the software 12 Preinstallation Instructions General installation requirements Centralized management considerations Veritas Storage Foundation Management Server by Symantec ties together the Storage Foundation product offerings to ensure that the hosts in your data center use storage as efficiently as possible You can use it to centrally monitor visualize and manage Storage Foundation hosts and generate reports about the hosts and the storage resources they consume The central console seamlessly integrates a wide range of management tasks like monitoring and reporting SF Management Server also offers customizable policy based management that helps you automate m notification m recovery m other user definable actions SF Management Server is not available on the Storage Foundation and High Availability Solutions release and must be obtained separately
36. andard Veritas File System Veritas Volume Manager Optionally licensed features Veritas Volume Replicator Storage Foundation Standard HA Veritas File System Veritas Volume Manager Veritas Cluster Server Optionally licensed features Veritas Volume Replicator Storage Foundation Enterprise Veritas File System Veritas Volume Manager Optionally licensed features Veritas Volume Replicator Storage Foundation Enterprise HA Veritas File System Veritas Volume Manager Veritas Cluster Server Optionally licensed features Veritas Volume Replicator Storage Foundation for Oracle Standard Veritas File System Veritas Volume Manager Veritas Quick I O option Veritas Extension for Oracle Disk Manager option Optionally licensed features Veritas Volume Replicator Preinstallation Instructions 11 General installation requirements Table 1 1 Contents of Veritas Storage Foundation products Storage Foundation for Oracle Enterprise Veritas File System Veritas Volume Manager Veritas Quick I O option Veritas Extension for Oracle Disk Manager option Veritas Storage Checkpoint option Veritas Storage Mapping option Optionally licensed features Veritas Volume Replicator Storage Foundation for Oracle Enterprise HA Veritas File System Veritas Volume Manager Veritas Cluster Server Veritas Quick I O option Veritas Extension for Oracle Disk Manager option Veritas Stor
37. are prompted to enter the system names in the following example host1 and host2 on which the software is to be installed Enter the system name or names and then press Return Enter the system names separated by spaces on which to install product name hosti host2 Enter the product license information Enter a product name license key for hosti XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX X XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX X successfully registered on host1 Do you want to enter another license key for hostl y n q n Enter a product name license key for host2 XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX X XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX X successfully registered on host1 Do you want to enter another license key for host2 y n q n Enter n if you have no further license keys to add for a system You are then prompted to enter the keys for the next system Note Each system requires a Storage Foundation product license before installation License keys for additional product features should also be added at this time 36 Installing the Veritas software Installing the Veritas Storage Foundation 5 0 software 6 Youcanchoose to either install only required packages or all packages Each option displays the disk space required for installation Select which option you want to install and press Return For example you should see output similar to the following SF can be installed without optional depots to conserve diskspace Addi
38. as defined in FAR Sections 12 212 and DFARS Section 227 7202 Veritas Software Corporation 20330 Stevens Creek Blvd Cupertino CA 95014 www symantec com Third party legal notices Third party software may be recommended distributed embedded or bundled with this Symantec product Such third party software is licensed separately by its copyright holder All third party copyrights associated with this product are listed in the accompanying release notes HP UX is a registered trademark of Hewlett Packard Development Company L P Licensing and registration Veritas Volume Manager is a licensed product See the Veritas Storage Foundation Installation Guide for license installation instructions Technical support For technical assistance visit http support veritas com and select phone or email support Use the Knowledge Base search feature to access resources such as TechNotes product alerts software downloads hardware compatibility lists and our customer email notification service Contents Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Preinstallation Instructions Veritas Storage Foundation product suites sss 10 General installation requirements sese 11 Centralized management considerations sss 12 Supported HP UX operating systems sese 12 Software and hardware requirements eese 13 Database requirements eese ente
39. atabase or upgrade to the new repository database See Upgrading to the new repository database for DB2 and Oracle on page 44 Configuring your system after the installation To configure your system after the software upgrade 1 Reinstate the mount points in the etc fstab file that you recorded in step 14 on page 32 2 Rebootthe upgraded systems 3 Restart all the volumes by entering the following command for each disk group vxvol g diskgroup startall There are several optional configuration steps that you may want to perform m If you want to use features of Veritas Storage Foundation 5 0 or Veritas Storage Foundation 5 0 for Oracle for which you do not currently have an appropriate license installed obtain the license and run the vx1icinst command to add it to your system m Stop the cluster restore the VCS configuration files to the etc VRTSvcs con config directory and restart the cluster m Tocreate root volumes that are under VxVM control after installation use the vxcp_lvmroot command as described in Converting to a VxVM root disk on page 48 and in the Administering Disks chapter of the Veritas Volume Manager Administrator s Guide 44 Installing the Veritas software Upgrading to the new repository database for DB2 and Oracle Upgrading to and Oracle To upgrade VxFS Disk Layout versions and VxVM Disk Group versions follow the instructions given in Upgrading VxFS disk layout versions on page 5
40. ates that nodes 0 and 1 are connected Port h indicates that VCS is started gen d570002 is a randomly generated number and membership 01 indicates that nodes 0 and 1 are both running VCS If GAB is not operating no GAB port membership information is returned GAB Port Memberships If only one network is connected the following GAB port membership information is returned GAB Port Memberships Port a gen a36e0003 membership 01 Port a gen a36e0003 jeopardy 1 Port h gen fd570002 membership 01 Port h gen fd570002 jeopardy 1 For more information on GAB including descriptions of ports refer to the Veritas Cluster Server User s Guide Converting to a VXVM root disk From the September 2004 HP UX 11i version 2 0 release it is possible to select VxVM as a choice for your root disk when performing a new installation using Ignite UX Alternatively you can use the following procedure to achieve VxVM rootability by cloning your LVM root disk using the vxcp_lvmroot command Installing the Veritas software 49 Converting to a VxVM root disk To convert to a VxVM root disk 1 Select the disk to be used as your new VxVM root disk It is recommended that this disk is internal to the main computer cabinet If this is currently an LVM disk then it must be removed from LVM control as follows m Use the vgreduce command to remove the disk from any LVM volume groups to which it belongs m Use the 1vremove command to remove any LVM vol
41. ation product suites on page 10 m General installation requirements on page 11 m Veritas Volume Manager requirements on page 18 m Veritas File System requirements on page 21 Follow the preinstallation instructions outlined in this chapter if you are installing one of the following Veritas Storage Foundation products by Symantec m Veritas Storage Foundation formerly known as Veritas Foundation Suite Standard Enterprise Enterprise HA Editions m Veritas Storage Foundation for Oracle formerly known as Veritas Database Edition for Oracle Standard Enterprise Enterprise HA Editions Note If you are installing Veritas Volume Replicator see the Veritas Volume Replicator Installation Guide on the product disc The Veritas Volume Replicator Installation Guide explains how to install the product and directs you to the Veritas Volume Replicator documentation After reviewing the information in this chapter see Installing the Veritas software on page 23 for information on installing the software 10 Preinstallation Instructions Veritas Storage Foundation product suites Veritas Storage Foundation product suites The following table lists the Symantec products and optionally licensed features available with each Veritas Storage Foundation product suite Table 1 1 Contents of Veritas Storage Foundation products Storage Foundation Basic Veritas File System Veritas Volume Manager Storage Foundation St
42. ations See Preinstallation Instructions on page 9 m Adding HP UX operating system patches if needed See Supported HP UX operating systems on page 12 m Obtaining a license key m Installing the Veritas Storage Foundation or Veritas Storage Foundation for Oracle software packages Follow the instructions in this chapter m Configuring the Veritas software See Configuring the Veritas software on page 57 Note Installing Veritas Storage Foundation using the product installer will automatically configure the software If you install using an alternative method you will have to run the product installer to configure the software 25 26 Installing the Veritas software About existing licenses About existing licenses You must obtain new licenses to use all of the features in the Veritas Storage Foundation 5 0 software Any Veritas licenses for previous releases that are currently installed will allow you to use only a limited subset of these features See Preinstallation Instructions on page 9 Upgrading HP UX If you need to upgrade the HP UX operating system do so before installing the Veritas Storage Foundation or Veritas Storage Foundation for Oracle software Figure 2 1 shows the recommended sequence of steps for all Veritas Storage Foundation products Installing the Veritas software 27 Upgrading HP UX Figure 2 1 Flowchart of steps for upgrading HP UX Start Is system at Septe
43. ator on page 62 m Configuring Veritas Volume Manager on page 65 m Enabling cluster support in VxVM Optional on page 67 m Configuring Veritas File System on page 70 Creating and configuring the repository database for DB2 and Oracle After installing Veritas Storage Foundation for DB2 or Veritas Storage Foundation for Oracle you must create and configure the repository database using the s ua db config script The script detects whether your system is running in a stand alone or HA configuration and then automatically configures the repository database 58 Configuring the Veritas software Creating and configuring the repository database for DB2 and Oracle Before running the script review the following requirements In a stand alone configuration E In an HA configuration E You must have a mount point mounted on a VxVM volume with a VxFS file system The mount point is used to store the repository database Create a separate non shared disk group on shared storage Create a VxVM volume and a VxFS file system and mount the volume It is recommended that you have a separate disk group for the repository volume so that any failovers are independent of other service groups The mount point is used to store the repository database Obtain an unique virtual IP address for public NIC interface Obtain the device names for the public NIC interface for example hme0 lan0 for all systems in the cluster Obtai
44. b lan2 Would you like to configure a third private heartbeat link y n q b n n Do you want to configure an additional low priority heartbeat link y n q b n Are you using the same NICs for private heartbeat links on all systems y n q b y Note When answering y be sure that the same NICs are available on each system the installer does not verify this Notice that in this example 1an0 is not selected for use as a private heartbeat NIC because it already in use as the public network interface The default responses are chosen 38 Installing the Veritas software Installing the Veritas Storage Foundation 5 0 software 8 10 11 12 13 14 15 A summary of the information you entered is given When prompted confirm that the information is correct Is this information correct y n q y If the information is correct press Return If the information is not correct enter n The installer prompts you to enter the information again When prompted to configure the product to use Veritas Security Services enter yorn to configure Note Before configuring a cluster to operate using Veritas Security Services another system must already have Veritas Security Services installed and be operating as a Root Broker Refer to the Veritas Cluster Server Installation Guide for more information on configuring a VxSS Root Broker Would you like to configure product name to use Veritas Security
45. cluster environment The cluster functionality in VxVM allows multiple hosts to simultaneously access and manage a set of disks under VxVM control A cluster is a set of hosts sharing a set of disks each host is referred to as a node in the cluster Note The VxVM cluster feature requires a license which can be obtained from your Customer Support channel To enable the cluster functionality in VxVM 1 Obtain a license for the VxVM cluster feature 2 Install the software packages onto each system node to be included in the cluster as described in Installing the Veritas Storage Foundation 5 0 software on page 33 and Installing the VEA client on page 53 3 Initialize VxVM using the procedures described in Configuring Veritas Volume Manager on page 65 4 Start VEA as described in Starting the VEA server on page 64 and Starting the VEA client on page 64 5 Configure shared disks as described in the Veritas Volume Manager Administrator s Guide Configuring shared disks If you are installing VxVM for the first time or adding disks to an existing cluster you need to configure new shared disks If you are upgrading VxVM verify that your shared disks still exist The shared disks should be configured from one node only Since the VxVM software cannot tell whether a disk is shared or not you must specify which are the shared disks Make sure that the shared disks are not being accessed from another node while you are pe
46. ct 17 You are prompted to configure the cluster connector Enter y or n to configure the cluster connector Do you want to configure the cluster connector y n q n 18 When prompted to configure SMTP notification enter y or n to configure Do you want to configure SMTP notification y n q y 19 When prompted to configure SNMP notification enter y or n to configure Do you want to configure SNMP notification y n q y 20 When prompted to set up the default disk group for each system enter y to set up the disk group for each system Do you want to set up a default disk group for each system y n q y 21 If you are installing Veritas Storage Foundation for Oracle change permissions to allow a database administrator or a group of administrators access to the database tools on each system Do you want to add single user access on host1 y n q y Enter login account name for DBA user account name Do you want to add group access on host1 y n q y Enter groupo name for DBA users dba Do you want to add single user access on host2 y n q y Enter login account name for DBA user account name Do you want to add group access on host2 y n q y Enter groupo name for DBA users dba 22 When prompted to change any of the VVR ports on host1 enter y or n if you want to change any of the VVR ports on host1 Do you want to change any of the VVR ports on hosti y n q n 23 When prompted to configure VVR statist
47. e Foundation uninstallation tasks on page 72 To install a Storage Foundation product 1 Toinvoke the common installer run the installer command on the disc as shown in this example cd dvdrom installer For information on installing on multiple hosts see Completing the installation procedure on page 41 Installing the Veritas software 35 Installing the Veritas Storage Foundation 5 0 software At the Product Status page enter I for the product installer and press Return The product installer is displayed At the Veritas product installer page select one of the following products m Veritas Storage Foundation This option will install the Standard Standard HA Enterprise or Enterprise HA product m Veritas Storage Foundation for Oracle This option will install the Standard Enterprise or Enterprise HA product The product installation begins automatically The version of Veritas Volume Manager that was bundled with HP UX will be replaced with Veritas Volume Manager 5 0 If you ever want to go back to the bundled version of Veritas Volume Manager then you will have to remove Veritas Volume Manager 5 0 and re install the bundled version using the HP UX OS media Do you wish to continue with the installation y n q v Note If you are installing Veritas Storage Foundation for Oracle do not select the Storage Foundation for Oracle RAC packages option unless you have the correct license or setup You
48. e you are aware of the contents of each disk Determine which disks can be initialized destroying any existing data on the disks Preinstallation Instructions 19 Veritas Volume Manager requirements 2 Do you want to place the system root disk under VxVM control 3 Doyou want to initialize a disks on a controller together Identify the controllers for example cOtO0dO where cOtOdO represents a disk on controller cO 4 Identify the disks to be initialized or excluded in a table similar to the following Disk ID Initialize Exclude Excluding disks It is possible to configure the vxdiskadm utility not to list certain disks or controllers as being available For example this may be useful in a SAN environment where disk enclosures are visible to a number of separate systems To exclude a device from the view of VxVM select item 16 Prevent multipathing Suppress devices from VxVM s view from the vxdiskadm main menu See Disabling and Enabling Multipathing for Specific Devices in the Administering Dynamic Multipathing DMP chapter of the Veritas Volume Manager Administrator s Guide for details Array support libraries VxVM provides support for new disk arrays in the form of Array Support Library ASL software packages You can obtain ASL packages from m The VxVM release package m The disk array provided by the vendor m The Veritas Technical Support site http
49. emon The VxVM configuration daemon vxconfigd maintains VxVM disk and disk group configurations The vxconfigd communicates configuration changes to the kernel and modifies configuration information stored on disk Startup scripts usually invoke vxconfigd at system boot time The vxconfigd daemon must be running for VxVM to operate properly The following procedures describe how to check that vxconfigd is started whether it is enabled or disabled how to start it manually or how to enable it as required To determine whether vxconfigd is enabled use the following command vxdctl mode The following message indicates that the vxconfigd daemon is running and enabled mode enabled This message indicates that vxconfigd is not running mode not running To start the veconfigd daemon enter the following command vxconfigd This message indicates that vxconfigd is running but not enabled mode disabled To enable the volume daemon enter the following command vxdctl enable Once started vxconfigd automatically becomes a background process By default vxconfigd writes error messages to the console However you can configure it to write errors to a log file For more information see the vxconfigd 1M and vxdct1 1M manual pages Configuring the Veritas software 67 Configuring Veritas Volume Manager Enabling cluster support in VXVM Optional This release includes an optional cluster feature that enables VxVM to be used in a
50. ep mount stop 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 80 Uninstalling the Veritas software Removing license files Optional 2 Moveto the opt VRTS install directory and run the uninstall script cd opt VRTS install For Veritas Storage Foundation uninstallsf For Veritas Storage Foundation for DB2 uninstallsfdb2 For Veritas Storage Foundation for Oracle uninstallsfora You can use these commands to remove the packages from one or more systems Note To remove packages from remote systems configure ssh or rsh as described in Prerequisites for remote and cluster installation and uninstallation on page 18 Not all these packages may be installed on your system depending on the choices that you made when you installed VxVM If you have obtained a Veritas product from an electronic download site the single product download files do not contain the uninstal1stf installation script so you must use the product uninstallation script to uninstall the product For example if you download Veritas Volume Manager use the uninstallvm script instead of the uninstallsf script Removing license files Optional To remove the VERITAS license files 1 To see what license key files you have installed on a system enter sbin vxlicrep The output lists
51. er you can use the agent to track Symantec products on the systems on which it was installed To use the agent however you must manually configure it to enable remote communication between the agent and its server or access point Complete instructions for reconfiguring the agent are provided in the Symantec License Inventory Manager 4 1 Release Notes You can download this document from the following website http support veritas com docs 282183 100 Configuring the Symantec License Inventory Agent How to remove the agent How to remove the agent If you do not want to use the Symantec License Inventory Manager you can remove the agent using the operating system package removal commands to remove the agent packages which include SYMClma and VRTSsmf The server and access point also use the VRTSsmf package If the server or access point is installed on this host with the agent you can remove the SYMClma package but not the VRTSsmf package If neither the server nor the access point is installed on this host you can remove both the SYMClma and VRTSsmf packages If you remove both packages remove the SYMClma package first Table C 1 lists the commands required to remove these packages on the supported platforms Table C 1 Package removal commands required to remove the agent AIX installp u VRTSlma installp u VRTSsmf HP UX swremove SYMClma swremove VRTSsmf Linux rpm evv SYMClma rpm evv VRTSsmf Solar
52. fsstat 1M PHCO_32392 Enables vxtunefs 1M PHCO_32393 Enables vxupgrade 1M PHCO_32488 Enables LIBC for VxFS 4 1 and later file systems PHCO_32523 Enhancement to quota 1 for supporting large uids PHCO_32524 Enhancement to edquota for supporting large uids PHCO_32551 Enhancement to quotaon quotaoff for supporting large uids PHCO_32552 Enhancement to repquota for supporting large uids PHCO_32596 Enables d 1M PHCO_32608 Enables bdf 1M PHCO_32609 Enables fstyp 1M PHCO_32610 Enables mount 1M PHCO_32611 Fix s_wrapper to accept vxfs from subtype PHCO_33238 Fix s_wrapper to accept vxfs from subtype PHCO_33238 swapon 1M cumulative patch Preinstallation Instructions 15 General installation requirements Table 1 Required HP UX patches PHCO 34036 LVM commands patch PHCO 34208 SAM cumulative patch PHCO 34191 Cumulative 1ibc patch PHSS 32228 LIBCL patch If the patch is not installed the VAILAgent process could terminate and LUN to disk mapping would fail PHSS 32231 FORTRANT O Library patch If the patch is not installed the VAILAgent process could terminate and LUN to disk mapping would fail PHSS 32674 Obam patch backend for the SAM patch PHKL 31500 Sept04 Base patch PHKL 32272 Changes to fix intermittent failures in getacl setacl PHKL 32430 Changes to separate vxfs symbols from libdebug a so that symbols of VxFS 4 1 and later are easily
53. grading Veritas Storage Foundation for Oracle in a high availability HA environment run the dbed update command with the c option opt VRTS bin dbed update S S ORACLE SID H ORACLE HOME G service group Installing the Veritas software 45 Migrating from etc vx vxdba to var vx vxdba for DB2 and Oracle After the upgrade the old repository database will be marked with a hidden file name such as etc vx vxdba instance name to prevent further updates If you need to perform an additional upgrade the file must be removed Migrating from etc vx vxdba to var vx vxdba for DB2 and Oracle If you are upgrading Veritas Storage Foundation for DB2 or Veritas Storage Foundation for Oracle you can migrate to var vx vxdba to save space under the root partition Migrating to var vx vxdba is optional However if you do not perform this migration you cannot remove any file or directory from etc vx vxdba to ensure proper operation This procedure can be done at any time To migrate from etc vx vxdba to var vx vxdba 1 Copy the etc vx vxdba directory and contents to var vx vxdba cp rp etc vx vxdba var vx vxdba 2 Remove etc vx vxdba rm rf etc vx vxdba 3 Linkthe two directories In s var vx vxdba etc vx vxdba Verifying the Veritas Storage Foundation installation You can use the swlist command to check which packages have been installed swlist 1 product grep VRTS Use the following sections to verif
54. he name of the user For example to add a database administrator with the name oracle as a user with root privileges enter the following opt VRTS bin vxdbedusr a user A f n oracle Configuring the Veritas software 63 Configuring Veritas Enterprise Administrator To add a user without root privileges use the vxdbedusr command as follows opt VRTS bin vxdbedusr a user n user name where a adds a user to the registry For example to add oracle as a user enter the following opt VRTS bin vxdbedusr a user n oracle To add a group to the console registry use the vxdbedusr command as follows opt VRTS bin vxdbedusr a group A f n group name where a user adds a user group to the registry A grants the user group root access f allows the group access to the GUI For example to add dba as a group enter the following opt VRTS bin vxdbedusr a group A f n dba Restart the VEA Server opt VRTS bin vxsvcctrl start Removing Users from the VEA Service Console Registry for Oracle You may need to restrict access to the VEA server console registry You can remove users or user groups from the registry if they have been previously added Note You cannot remove root from the VEA console registry To remove users other than root from the Veritas Enterprise Administrator Service console registry 1 Make sure that the optional GUI package was installed swlist 1 product
55. host1 Enter y for the host2 domain name Is the fully qualified hostname of system host2 host2 domain name y n q y You are prompted to enable Storage Foundation Management Server Management Enable Storage Foundation Management Server Management y n q y Enter y to enable Storage Foundation Management Server Management You are prompted to start Storage Foundation Do you want to start Veritas Storage Foundation processes now v n q v Startup completed successfully on all systems You declined to set up the name of the default disk group for host1 You declined to set up the name of the default disk group for host2 Installing the Veritas software Installing the Veritas Storage Foundation 5 0 software Installation log files summary file and response file are saved at opt VRTS install logs installsf 7ai12i When installsf installs software some software may be applied rather than committed It is the responsibility of the system administrator to commit the software which can be performed later with the c option of the installp command Completing the installation procedure At this point in the installation and configuration procedure the utility begins to install the various packages on one node and copy them to any other specified nodes The following sample output is for a Storage Foundation Enterprise HA installation To complete the installation procedure 1 If you are completing the insta
56. ics on host1 enter y or n to configure the VVR statistics Do you want to change the frequency of VVR statistics collection on hosti y n q n Do you want to change the maximum number of days for retaining VVR statistics on hosti y n q n 24 When prompted to modify the VVR tunables on host1 enter y or n to modify VVR tunables host1 Do you want to view or modify VVR tunables on hosti y n q n 40 Installing the Veritas software Installing the Veritas Storage Foundation 5 0 software 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 When prompted to change any of the VVR ports on host2 enter y or n if you want to change any of the VVR ports on host2 Do you want to change any of the VVR ports on host2 y n q n When prompted to configure VVR statistics on host2 enter y orn to configure VVR statistics on host2 Do you want to change the frequency of VVR statistics collection on host2 y n q n Do you want to change the maximum number of days for retaining VVR statistics on host2 y n q n When prompted to modify the VVR tunables on host2 enter y orn to modify the VVR tunables on host2 Do you want to view or modify VVR tunables on host2 y n q n You are prompted to enter the fully qualified hostname of system host1 Enter y for the host1 domain name Is the fully qualified hostname of system hosti hostl domain name y n q y You are prompted to enter the fully qualified hostname of system
57. ion packages on page 79 To uninstall Veritas Volume Manager 1 2 Log in as superuser Run the installer command to uninstall Veritas Volume Manager For example cd dvdrom installer From the product installer choose the U option for Uninstall and select Veritas Volume Manager 82 Uninstalling the Veritas software Uninstalling Veritas File System Enter one or more system names from which Veritas Volume Manager is to be uninstalled For example Enter the system names separated by spaces on which to uninstall VxVM system01 After the system check completes successfully press Return to continue Enter y to uninstall the VxVM depots For example Are you sure you want to uninstall VxVM y n q y After VxVM is successfully stopped the system will tell you the location of log files You should save these files for future reference After uninstallation completes reboot the system sbin usr shutdown r y now Uninstalling Veritas File System This section describes how to uninstall Veritas File System and the product license To uninstall Veritas Storage Foundation or Veritas Storage Foundation for Oracle see Uninstalling Veritas Storage Foundation packages on page 79 To uninstall Veritas File System 1 2 Log in as superuser Run the installer command to uninstall the Veritas File System For example cd dvdrom installer From the product installer choose the U option for
58. ired Provider VRTSfssdk Veritas File System Software Developer Kit Required VRTSfsweb Veritas File System Provider Web Client Required Extension VRTSfspro Veritas File System Management Services Required Provider VRTSfsdoc Veritas File System Documentation Optional VRTSfsman Veritas File System Manual Pages Optional VRTSfsmnd Veritas File System Software Developer Kit Optional Manual Pages Database packages VRTSdbcom Veritas Storage Foundation Common Required for all Utilities for Databases database products VRTSdb2ed Veritas Storage Foundation for DB2 Required for Storage Foundation for DB2 VRTSd2gui Veritas Storage Foundation for DB2 Required for Storage Graphical User Interface Foundation for DB2 VRTSdbed Veritas Storage Foundation for Oracle Required for Storage Foundation for Oracle Table A 1 Veritas Storage Foundation install packages Veritas Storage Foundation install packages Storage Foundation packages 89 VRTSorgui Veritas Storage Foundation for Oracle Required for Storage Graphical User Interface Foundation for Oracle VRTSsybed Veritas Storage Foundation for Sybase Required for Storage Note Veritas Storage Foundation for Sybase Ae ae tor VRTSsybed has not been localized ypase VRTSodm ODM Driver for VxFS Required for Storage Foundation for Oracle VRTSvxmsa Veritas Mapping Service Application Required for DB2 and Librarie
59. is pending you must leave the file system mounted for a longer time to allow the operation to complete Removing a very large fileset clone can take several hours Optional Repeat step 8 to verify that the unclean file system is now clean Stop activity to all VxVM volumes For example stop any applications such as databases that access the volumes and unmount any file systems that have been created on the volumes Stop all the volumes by entering the following command for each disk group vxvol g diskgroup stopall To verify that no volumes remain open use the following command vxprint Aht e v open Make a record of the mount points for VxFS file systems and VxVM volumes that are defined in the etc fstab file You will need to recreate these entries in the etc fstab file on the freshly installed system Reboot the system Installing the Veritas software 33 Installing the Veritas Storage Foundation 5 0 software Installing the Veritas Storage Foundation 5 0 software These steps apply to both Veritas Storage Foundation and Veritas Storage Foundation for Oracle After you complete the installation procedure you need to initialize where required and set up the Veritas software in order to use it See Configuring the Veritas software on page 57 Caution Installing the 5 0 Veritas software will overwrite the Veritas Volume Manager 3 5 or 4 1 software on your system To go back to Veritas Volume Manager 3 5
60. is pkgrm VRTSlma pkgrm VRTSsmf Later you can reinstall the agent with the Symantec License Inventory Manager installation disc This disc is available in the Symantec License Inventory Manager kit Configuring the Symantec License Inventory Agent 101 How to order the Symantec License Inventory Manager license and media kit How to order the Symantec License Inventory Manager license and media kit To order a Symantec License Inventory Manager license and media kit contact your Symantec sales representative The installation media provides online documentation for the Symantec License Inventory Manager You can contact your sales representative to order printed copies of the documentation The documents you can order include m Symantec License Inventory Manager Installation and Configuration Guide m Symantec License Inventory Manager Administrator s Guide m Symantec License Inventory Manager User s Guide 102 Configuring the Symantec License Inventory Agent How to order the Symantec License Inventory Manager license and media kit
61. k from VxVM control If the system s root disk is under VxVM control use the following command to copy its contents to a new LVM root disk etc vx bin vxres lvmroot v b p c t d 2 c t d 3 c t d where c t d is the access name of the new LVM root disk If the root disk volumes are distributed over several disks use the p option to specify a comma separated list of additional disks that are to be used to set up the LVM root volume group The operation to clone a new LVM root volume group can take some time so the v verbose option is specified to show how far this has progressed 74 Uninstalling the Veritas software Removing VxFS file systems and Storage Checkpoints Removing VxFS file systems and Storage Checkpoints It is advisable to unmount any user VxFS file systems before uninstalling VxFS to help smooth uninstallation of Vx VM package if VxFS file system is mounted on VxVM volumes System partitions need not be unmounted as part of this operation After you remove the VRTSvxfs package VxFS file systems versions greater than those supported by OnlineJFS bundled with HPUX OS are not mountable or accessible until another VRTSvxfs package supporting them is installed To unmount a file system 1 Check if any VxFS file systems are mounted cat etc mnttab grep vxfs 2 Unmount any file systems that are not system partitions umount special mount point Specify the file system to be unmounted as a mount point or
62. l vxdg rmdisk diskname vxdisk rm devname Use the free space created for adding the data from the next volume you want to remove 11 After you successfully convert all volumes into disk partitions reboot the system 12 After the reboot make sure none of the volumes are open by using the vxprint command vxprint Aht e v open If any volumes remain open repeat the steps listed above Example This example shows how to move the data on a volume to a disk partition In the example there are three disks disk1 and disk2 are subdisks on volume vo101 and disk3 is a free disk The data on vo101 is copied to disk3 using vxevac Diskgroup voldg content before the data on vo101 is copied to disk3 vxprint g voldg ht DG NAME NCONFIG NLOG MINORS GROUP ID DM NAME DEVICE TYPE PRIVLEN PUBLEN STATE RV NAME RLINK_CNT KSTATE STATE PRIMARY DATAVOLS SRL RL NAME RVG KSTATE STATE REM_HOST REM_DG REM_RLNK V NAME RVG KSTATE STATE LENGTH READPOL PREFPLEX UTYPE PL NAME VOLUME KSTATE STATE LENGTH LAYOUT NCOL WID MODE SD NAME PLEX DISK DISKOFFS LENGTH COL OFF DEVICE MODE SV NAME PLEX VOLNAME NVOLLAYR LENGTH COL OFF AM NM MODE DC NAME PARENTVOL LOGVOL SP NAME SNAPVOL DCO dg voldg default default 115000 1017856044 1141 hostname veritas com dm disk1 c1t12d0 auto hpdisk 2591 17900352 dm disk2 c1t14d0 auto hpdisk 2591 17899056 dm disk3 c1t3d0 auto hpdisk 2591 17899056 v voll ENABLED ACTIVE 4196448 ROUND fsgen pl pli voli ENABLED ACTIVE 4196448 CONC
63. lag for all the shared disk groups use the following command vxdg list The disk groups are now ready to be shared If the cluster is only running with one node bring up the other cluster nodes Enter the vxdg 1ist command on each node to display the shared disk groups This command displays the same list of shared disk groups displayed earlier For information on upgrading in a Cluster Volume Manager CVM environment see the Veritas Storage Foundation Cluster File System Installation and Administration Guide 70 Configuring the Veritas software Configuring Veritas File System Upgrading in a clustered environment with FastResync set If there are volumes in the shared disk groups with FastResync set fastresync on before beginning the upgrade procedure reattach each snapshot to its data volume using this procedure To upgrade in a clustered environment when FastResync is set 1 You should run this procedure from the master node to find out if you are on the master node enter the command vxdctl c mode 2 On the master node list which disk groups are shared by entering vxdg s list 3 Using the diskgroup names displayed by the previous command list the disk groups that have volumes on which FastResync is set vxprint g diskgroup F name e v fastresync 4 Reattach each snapshot vxassist g diskgroup o nofmr snapback snapshot volume 5 Ifyou are upgrading from VxVM 3 5 Maintenance Patch 3 or from VxVM 3
64. le Automates installation and configuration by using system and configuration information stored in a specified file instead of prompting for information The response file must be a full path name If not specified the response file is automatically generated as installerernumber response number is random You must edit the response file to use it for subsequent installations Variable field definitions are defined within the file The enckeyfile option and encryption_key_file name are required with the responsefile option when the response file contains encrypted passwords rootpath root_path Specifies an alternative root directory on which to install packages On Solaris operating systems rootpath passes R path to pkgadd On HP UX operating systems rootpath passes I path to swinstall The rootpath option is not supported on AIX or Linux operating systems 86 Installation script options Installation Script Options Table A 6 Available command line options rsh Specify this option when you want to use RSH and RCP for communication between systems instead of the default SSH and SCP The rsh option requires that systems be preconfigured so that commands between systems execute without prompting for passwords or confirmations tmppath mp path Specifies a directory other than var tmp as the working directory for the installation scripts This destination is where initial logging is performed and
65. llation procedure in a cluster configurations skip this step If you are completing the installation procedure on a stand alone configuration invoke the common installer run the installer command on the disc as shown in this example cd dvdrom installer At the product status page enter C for the Configure an Installed Product and press Return The product installer is displayed As the utility continues the procedure you are prompted to choose whether to install on all systems simultaneously Enter y or press Return to accept simultaneous installation Would you like to install Storage Foundation Standard HA on all systems simultaneously y n q y Y A message displays notifying you of successful installation Press Return to continue A message displays describing the VxVM enclosure based naming scheme and showing which nodes are eligible When prompted to configure this feature enter n if you want to decline If required you can use the vxdiskadm command or the Veritas Enterprise Administrator to configure this feature after installation See the vxdiskadm 1M manual page and the Administering Disks chapter of the Veritas Volume Manager Administrator s Guide for more information 42 Installing the Veritas software Installing the Veritas Storage Foundation 5 0 software If you are installing an HA version of the product a message displays indicating the VCS configuration files are being created and copied Pre
66. mber 2004 HP UX 11i version 2 0 or later release Yes No Is any Veritas software running on September 2002 HP UX 11i 11 11 version 1 0 Remove all Veritas software except VxVM see Removing the 3 5 or 4 1 software Upgrade system to September 2004 HP UX 11i version 2 0 or later release Install the Veritas Storage Foundation 5 0 software on September 2004 HP UX 11i version 2 0 or later release 28 Installing the Veritas software Upgrading HP UX Removing the 3 5 or 4 1 Veritas software Before upgrading the OS you must remove all 3 5 or 4 1 level Veritas software except Veritas Volume Manager Removing patches Before removing the base 3 5 or 4 1 software you must remove any Veritas File System Veritas Storage Foundation for Oracle or Veritas Enterprise Administrator patches you may have installed with Update 1 Update 2 or Update 3 To remove the Veritas patches 1 Login as superuser 2 Stop the VEA service opt VRTSob bin vxsvcctrl stop 3 Remove the following file rm f var vx isis vxisis lock 4 Toremove the patches enter swremove x autoreboot true patch name patch name patch name Table 2 3 contains a list of 3 5 patches that need to be removed Table 2 3 3 5 Patches Veritas File System PHKL 28503 Update 1 PHCO 28504 Update 2 PHKL 28785 Update 2 PHKL 29212 Update 2 PHCO 30689 Update 3 PHKL 31983 Update 3 Installing the Veritas software 29 Upgr
67. mentation Setting administrative permissions To allow database administrators to administer a database using Veritas Storage Foundation you are required to change some permission settings During the installation process you have the opportunity to configure the product Answering y allows you to provide database administrators access to various functionality If you did not make the permission changes during installation you can do so at a later time The default settings at installation time for the opt VRTSdbed directory allow only the root login to access the directory To allow the user oracle access to the opt VRTSdbed directory Use the chown and chmod commands as follows chown oracle opt VRTSdbed chmod 500 opt VRTSdbed To allow users in the group dba access to the opt VRTSdbed directory Use the chgrp and chmod commands as follows chgrp dba opt VRTSdbed chmod 550 opt VRTSdbed vxtunefs command permissions and Cached Quick I O By default you must have superuser root privileges touse the opt VRTS bin vxtunefs command The vxtunefs command is a tool that lets you change caching policies to enable Cached Quick I O and change other file system options Database administrators can be granted permission to change 62 Configuring the Veritas software Configuring Veritas Enterprise Administrator default file system behavior in order to enable and disable Cached Quick I O The system admini
68. n a subnet mask for the public NIC interface Make sure VCS is not in read write rw mode To make sure VCS is in read only mode use the following command haconf dump makero Table 3 5 indicates the options available for the s ua db config script Table 3 5 sfua db config options ssh Use this option in a high availability HA configuration The option indicates that ssh and scp are to be used for communication between systems Either ssh or rsh should be preconfigured so that you can execute the commands without being prompted for passwords or confirmations o dropdb Drops the repository database Configuring the Veritas software 59 Creating and configuring the repository database for DB2 and Oracle Table 3 5 sfua db config options o unconfig cluster Use this option in a high availability HA configuration Unconfigures the repository database from the VCS cluster o dbstatus Verifies the status of the database and database server o stopserver Stops the database server o startserver Starts the database server o serverstatus Reports the database server status o stopdb Detaches the repository database from the database server o startdb Attaches the repository database to the database server To create and configure the repository database 1 Runthe sfua db config script as follows opt VRTSdbcom bin sfua db config The following is an example of configuri
69. n free disk space of the same size as the volume In this example a 2G partition is created on disk1 c1t12d0 Copy the data on vo101 to the newly created disk partition dd if dev vx dsk voldg vol01 of dev dsk c1t12d0 Uninstalling the Veritas software 79 Uninstalling Veritas Storage Foundation packages In the etc stab file remove the following entry dev vx dsk voldg voll dev vx rdsk voldg voll voll vxfs 4 yes rw Replace it with an entry for the newly created partition dev dsk c1t12d0 dev rdsk citi12d0 vol01 vxfs 4 yes rw Mount the disk partition mount F vxfs dev dsk citi12d0 volO1 Remove vo101 from VERITAS Volume Manager vxedit rf rm dev vx dsk voldg vol01 To complete the procedure follow Steps 10 through 12 in the previous section Moving volumes to disk partitions on page 74 Shutting down VERITAS Volume Manager To shut down VERITAS Volume Manager Enter the vxdct1 and vxiod commands as follows vxdctl stop vxiod f set 0 Uninstalling Veritas Storage Foundation packages To shut down and remove the installed Veritas Storage Foundation packages 1 Ifyou are uninstalling Veritas Storage Foundation for DB2 or Veritas Storage Foundation for Oracle stop the repository database and unmount the repository volume In a stand alone Stop the database repository configuration opt VRTSdbcom bin sfua db config o stopdb Unmount the database repository opt VRTSdbcom config sfua r
70. ng Veritas Storage Foundation for Oracle Welcome to the SFORA configuration script This script creates repository for standalone and HA configuration Please create a Veritas File System on a Veritas Volume and mount it before starting configuration using this script This mount point will be used to store repository The following is required to configure SFORA repository for HA solution A mount point of already mounted Veritas Volume on a shared storage with Veritas File system A public NIC used by each system in the cluster A Virtual IP address and netmask Are you ready to configure SFORA repository y n q y filesystem mount point for SFORA repository sfua rep Discovering public NIC on host1 lan0 Enter the NIC for system hosti for HA Repository configuration 1an0 60 Configuring the Veritas software Creating and configuring the repository database for DB2 and Oracle Discovering public NIC on host2 lan0 Enter the NIC for system host2 for HA Repository configuration 1an0 Enter the Virtual IP address for repository failover AX QXXX XXX XXX Enter the netmask for public NIC interface xxx xxx xxx x Following information will be used for SFORA HA configuration Public IP address XX XXX XXX XXX Subnet mask XXX XXX XXX X Public interface hosti gt lan0 host2 gt land Mount point sfua rep Volume Name for mount point dbed rep Diskgroup for mount point sfua rep
71. nges made during installation take effect by performing one of the following procedures m ForWindows NT Windows 2000 Windows 2003 or Windows XP log out and then log back in m ForWindows ME Windows 98 or Windows 95 restart the computer Installing Veritas Volume Manager This section describes how to install the Veritas Volume Manager software and license key If you are installing Veritas Storage Foundation or Veritas Storage Foundation for Oracle see Installing the Veritas Storage Foundation 5 0 software on page 33 To install Veritas Volume Manager 1 2 Log in as superuser Run the installer command to install Veritas Volume Manager For example cd dvdrom installer From the product installer choose the I option for Install and select Veritas Volume Manager Note If you have obtained a Veritas product from an electronic download site the single product download files do not contain the installer installation script so you must use the product installation script to install the product For example if you download Veritas Volume Manager use the installvm script instead of the installer script Enter one or more system names on which Veritas Volume Manager is to be installed For example Enter the system names separated by spaces on which to install VxVM system01 After the system check completes successfully press Return to continue 10 11 12 Installing the Veritas software
72. nte tnnt nna 13 Required HP UX patches esent enne 14 Disk space sessi then tnnt tnt tht tnter tn nnns tst n snis tne nens 16 JODEUITeCtOEy 32d RR NUR epee ne M AMEN 17 Environment variables esses 17 Prerequisites for remote and cluster installation and uninstallation 18 Release Notes sss entente nnne tnnt nennen nen 18 Veritas Volume Manager requirements essere 18 Taking a disk inventory sess 18 Excluding disks 4n ei eei rer ERE cre E E arenes 19 Array support libraries sess 19 Veritas Enterprise Administrator essent 20 Cluster environment requirements sese 20 Veritas File System requirements sse 21 Converting from QuickLog to Multi Volume Support 22 Installing the Veritas software Installation requirements 0 cccccscsscesessssceccssesescssessessessesessessesscseeecaesecaes 24 About mapping services and performance statistics for databases 24 About the operating system sss nnne 25 Summary of Veritas Storage Foundation installation tasks 25 About existing licenses eai ene RR REEL ae eek 26 Upgrading HP UX sse tnnt ttt rennen nnns 26 Removing the 3 5 or 4 1 Veritas software sese 28 Installation notes for the Veritas 5 0 software s
73. ontrol eese 73 Removing VxFS file systems and Storage Checkpoints 74 Appendix A Appendix B Appendix C Contents Moving volumes to disk partitions sss 74 Moving volumes onto disk partitions sese 75 Uninstalling Veritas Storage Foundation packages s 79 Removing license files Optional Uninstalling the Veritas Enterprise Administrator Client Uninstalling Veritas Volume Manager eee Uninstalling Veritas File System sss Installation script options Installation Script Options eese nntnn nnn 83 Veritas Storage Foundation install packages Veritas Storage Foundation install packages sss 87 Configuring the Symantec License Inventory Agent About the Symantec License Inventory Manager sess 94 When the Symantec License Inventory Agent is installed 95 When the server and access points are installed sss 95 What you can do with the agent after it is installed ss 95 How to remove the agent uer oc pesce mars 96 How to order the Symantec License Inventory Manager license and media Kit oerna M 97 7 8 Contents Preinstallation Instructions Topics covered in this chapter include m Veritas Storage Found
74. or initialize Veritas Storage Foundation and HP UX About mapping services and performance statistics for databases m You must install Veritas Array Integration Layer VAIL Generic Array for Mapping Services by Symantec VRTSgapms and Veritas Mapping Services VxMS if you want to use deep mapping services and performance statistics for supported storage arrays m Install the EMC Solutions Enabler SYMCLI before you install VAIL If you install Solutions Enabler after you install VAIL rescan the EMC Symmetrix arrays so that they can be discovered See the Veritas Storage Foundation Oracle Administrator s Guide Installing the Veritas software Summary of Veritas Storage Foundation installation tasks About the operating system If patches to the HP UX operating system are required the patches should be applied just prior to installing the Veritas products Patches may be required to resolve HP UX kernel product performance or other issues The system should be in a quiescent state before adding patches Note See Supported HP UX operating systems on page 12 for information on patches required for Veritas HP UX or Oracle software Summary of Veritas Storage Foundation installation tasks Installation of Veritas Storage Foundation products consists of the following tasks m Reviewing Release Notes for the most current product information m Reviewing preinstallation requirements and making any necessary modific
75. pecifies the systems on which to run the installation options A system name is required for all options If not specified the command prompts for a system name 84 Installation script options Installation Script Options Table A 6 Available command line options configure Configures the product after installing using the installonly option enckeyfile encryption key file See the responsefile and the encrypt options encrypt password Encrypts password using the encryption key provided with the enckeyfile option so that the encrypted password can be stored in response files installpkgs Displays all product packages in correct installation order Output can be used to create scripts for command line installs or for installations over a network See the requiredpkgs option installonly Installs packages but does not configure the product keyfile ss key file Specifies a key file for secure shell SSH installs This option passes issh key fileto every SSH invocation license Registers or updates product licenses on the specified systems logpath log path Specifies a directory other than opt VRTS install logs as the location where installer log files summary files and response files are saved noextrapkgs Additional packages can be installed so that you can upgrade to another Symantec product simply by installing a new license The noextrapkgs option bypasses installation of ex
76. py them from the software disc to the opt VRTS docs directory so that they are available for future reference Ensure that the opt directory exists and has write permissions for root If the vRTS snb1 package is installed on the system you must remove it before installing VxFS 5 0 To verify the VRTSfsnb1 package is installed enter swlist 1 product egrep i VRTSfsnbl If the vRTS snb1 package is installed you must remove it swremove VRTSfsnbl The Veritas File System does not support OmniStorage Do not install VxFS without first retrieving any files archived using OmniStorage Install all the latest required HP UX patches See Required HP UX patches on page 14 22 Preinstallation Instructions Veritas Volume Manager requirements Converting from QuickLog to Multi Volume Support 1 Select a QuickLog enabled file system to convert to MVS and unmount it umount myfs Detach one of the QuickLog volumes from the QuickLog device that the file system had been using This volume will be used as the new intent log volume for the file system qlogdetach g diskgroup log vol Create the volume set vxvset make myvset myfs_volume Mount the volume set mount F vxfs dev vx dsk rootdg myvset mnti Upgrade the volume set s file system to Version 6 disk layout See the VERITAS Storage Foundation Installation Guide See the vxfsconvert 1M and vxupgrade 1M manual pages vxupgrade n 6 mnti Add the log volume from
77. r on page 34 Installing using the product installer The product installer is the recommended method to license and install the product The installer also enables you to configure the product verify preinstallation requirements and view the product s description At most points during an installation you can type b back to return to a previous section of the installation procedure The back feature of the installation scripts is context sensitive so it returns to the beginning of a grouped section of questions If an installation procedure hangs use Control c to stop and exit the program There is a short delay before the script exits The following sample procedure is based on the installation of a Veritas Storage Foundation Enterprise HA cluster with two nodes host1 and host2 If you are installing on standalone systems only some steps are unnecessary and these are indicated Default responses are enclosed by parentheses Press Return to accept defaults Note If you have obtained a Veritas product from an electronic download site the single product download files do not contain the product installer so you must use the product installation script to install the product See Installation script options on page 83 If you are upgrading your Veritas software remove the previously installed packages Then follow the instructions in this section to install the 5 0 software See Summary of Veritas Storag
78. rforming the configuration If you start the cluster on the node where you perform the configuration only you can prevent disk accesses from other nodes because the quorum control reserves the disks for the single node Configuring new disks If you are installing and setting up VxVM for the first time you must configure the shared disks 68 Configuring the Veritas software Configuring Veritas Volume Manager To configure shared disks 1 2 Start the cluster on at least one node On one node run the vxdiskadm program and choose option 1 to initialize new disks When asked to add these disks to a disk group choose none to leave the disks for future use On other nodes in the cluster run vxdct1 enable to see the newly initialized disks From the master node create disk groups on the shared disks To determine if a node is a master or slave run vxdct1 c mode Use the vxdg program or VEA to create disk groups In the vxdg program use the s option to create shared disk groups From the master node only use vxassist or VEA to create volumes in the disk groups The volumes must be of type gen Do not create RAID 5 volumes Before creating any log subdisks read the section on DRL in the Veritas Volume Manager Administrator s Guide If the cluster is only running with one node bring up the other cluster nodes Enter the vxdg 1ist command on each node to display the shared disk groups Verifying existing shared disks
79. root disk safely co exists with your VxVM root disk and provides a backup boot target 50 Installing the Veritas software Upgrading VxFS disk layout versions If desired you can convert the original LVM root disk into a mirror of your VxVM root disk by using the following commands etc vx bin vxdestroy lvmroot v c2t0d0 etc vx bin vxrootmir v c2t0d0 Once this operation is complete the system is running on a completely mirrored VxVM root disk Note If later required you can use the vxres 1vmroot command to restore the LVM root disk Upgrading VxFS disk layout versions Veritas File System 5 0 allows Version 4 5 6 and 7 for locally mounted file systems and disk layout Versions 6 and 7 for cluster mounted file systems If you have cluster mounted file systems with disk layout Versions lower than 6 then after upgrading to VxFS 5 0 Perform the following additional steps to prepare the file system for being mounted on all nodes of the cluster Note Disk layout Versions 1 2 and 3 are not supported by VxFS 5 0 All file systems created on VxFS 5 0 use disk layout Version 7 by default See the Veritas File System Administrator s Guide 1 Select one of the nodes of the cluster and mount the file system locally on this node Use the mount but without the o cluster option For example mount F vxfs dev vx dsk sharedg voll1 mnt1 To find the current disk layout version on a file system fstyp v
80. rprise HA The directory opt must exist be writable and must not be a symbolic link If you are upgrading you cannot have a symbolic link from opt to an unconverted volume If you do have a symbolic link to an unconverted volume the symbolic link will not function during the upgrade and items in opt will not be installed Environment variables Most of the commands used in the installation are in the sbinor usr sbin directory However there are additional variables needed to use the Veritas Storage Foundation product after installation Add the following directories to your PATH environment variable m Ifyou are using Bourne or Korn shell sh or ksh use the commands PATH PATH usr sbin opt VRTSvxfs sbin opt VRTSob bin opt VRTSvcs bin opt VRTS bin MANPATH usr share man opt VRTS man MANPATH export PATH MANPATH m If you are using a C shell csh or tesh use the commands set path path usr sbin opt VRTSvxfs sbin opt VRTSvcs bin opt VRTSob bin opt VRTS bin setenv MANPATH usr share man opt VRTS man MANPATH Note If you are not installing an HA product you can omit opt VRTSvcs bin 18 Preinstallation Instructions Veritas Volume Manager requirements Prerequisites for remote and cluster installation and uninstallation Release Notes Establishing communication between nodes is required to install Veritas software from a remote system or to install and configure a clus
81. s Oracle products VRTSdbdoc Veritas Storage Foundation Documentation Optional for Databases Veritas Enterprise Administrator packages VRTSob Veritas Enterprise Administrator Required VRTSobc33 Veritas Enterprise Administrator Core Required VRTSccg Veritas Enterprise Administrator Central Required Control Grid VRTSaa Veritas Enterprise Administrator Action Required Agent VRTSobweb Veritas Enterprise Administrator Web Required Console VRTSobgui Veritas Enterprise Administrator Optional Infrastructure packages VRTSicsco Symantec Infrastructure Core Services Required VRTSddlpr Veritas Device Discovery Layer Services Required Provider VRTSvail Veritas Array Integration Layer Required VRTSat Symantec Product Authentication Service Required VRTSgapms Veritas Generic Array Plugin Required High Availability Veritas Cluster Server packages VRTSvcs Veritas Cluster Server Required 90 Veritas Storage Foundation install packages Veritas Storage Foundation install packages Table A 1 Storage Foundation packages LINER es oe VRTScsocw Veritas Cluster Serer Oracle and RAC Required Configuration Wizards VRTSvcsor Veritas High Availability Agent for Oracle Required VRTSvesdb Veritas High Availability Agent for DB2 Required VRTScscm Veritas Cluster Server Cluster Manager Required VRTScscw Veritas Cluster Server Configuration Required Wizards VRTScssim Veritas Cluster Server Simulator Required VRTScutil Veritas Cl
82. sk group versions that correspond to each VxVM release on HP UX from 3 0 to the present Table 2 4 VxVM disk group versions 3 0 60 20 40 60 3 1 70 20 70 3 1 1 80 20 80 3 5 90 90 4 1 120 90 110 120 5 0 140 90 110 120 140 Use the following command to find the version of a disk group vxdg list diskgroup To upgrade a disk group to version 140 use the following command vxdg upgrade diskgroup Upgrading the VxVM cluster protocol version If you are upgrading a cluster and you want to take advantage of the new features in this release you must upgrade the version of the VxVM cluster protocol To upgrade the protocol to version 70 enter the following command on the master node of the cluster vxdctl upgrade Installing the Veritas software 53 Installing the VEA client Installing the VEA client If you plan to run the VEA client you must install the vRTSobgui package on the machine you are planning to use Installing the VEA client on HP UX To install the VEA client on an HP UX machine using swinstall 1 Loginas root 2 First check to determine whether the VEA client package is already installed swlist grep VRTSobgui This command will return vRTSobgui if VRTSobgui is already installed It will return nothing if the package has not been installed 3 Toinstall the VEA client package for HP UX insert the appropriate media disc into your system s DVD ROM drive and mount it as described
83. ss Return to continue A message displays indicating which systems can be started and on the systems that VxVM selects as targets Press Return to continue If you are installing an HA version of the product a message displays notifying you that Cluster Server is starting This message also contains information about configuring a default disk group You are now given the option of specifying the default name of a disk group that is to be assumed by Veritas Volume Manager commands if a disk group is not otherwise specified Many Volume Manager commands affect the contents or configuration of a disk group Such commands require that the user specify a disk group This is accomplished by using the g option of a command or setting the VXVM DEFAULTDG environment variable An alternative to these two methods is to configure the default disk group of a system Evaluating which systems can now have their default disk group configured System host1 is eligible can configure the default diskgroup System host2 is eligible can configure the default diskgroup Do you want to set up the default disk group for each system y n q y n Enter n if you do not want to specify the name of the default disk group at this time You can set the name of the default disk group after installation by running the vxdct1 defaultdg diskgroup command on a system See the vxdct1 1M manual page and the Creating and Administering Disk Groups chap
84. ss 30 Preparing to install the Veritas software sees 31 Installing the Veritas Storage Foundation 5 0 software 33 Mounting the software disc ssssesesseseeeeeeteentntnetetnntnn 33 Installing using the product installer sse 34 6 Contents Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Configuring Veritas Storage Foundation on a cluster 36 Completing the installation procedure eee 41 Configuring your system after the installation sss 43 Upgrading to the new repository database for DB2 and Oracle 44 Migrating from etc vx vxdba to var vx vxdba for DB2 and Oracle 45 Verifying the Veritas Storage Foundation installation 45 Checking Volume Manager processes seen 45 Checking VxFS installation essent 46 Checking cluster operation sess 46 Converting to a VXVM root disk sess 48 Upgrading VxFS disk layout versions esee 50 When to upgrade disk layout versions sees 51 When to use vxfsconvert c ceseesesessssesesesesesesseseseseseseseeeseeseaeaeaeseeeeteeeeeees 51 When to use vxupgrade essent nnne 51 Requirements for upgrading to disk layout Version 7 51 Upgrading VxVM disk group versions
85. strator must change the vxtunefs executable permissions as follows chown root dba opt VRTS bin vxtunefs chmod 4550 opt VRTS bin vxtunefs Note Setting the permissions for opt VRTS bin vxtunefs to 4550 allows all users in the dba group to use the vxtunefs command to modify caching behavior for Quick I O files For more information see the Veritas File System Administrator s Guide Configuring Veritas Enterprise Administrator You may need to update Veritas Enterprise Administrator VEA so that users other than root can access features Adding Users to the VEA Service Console Registry for Oracle You may want to add users to the VEA server console registry to allow access to the interface to users other than root You also have the option to give database administrators root privileges To add users other than root to the Veritas Enterprise Administrator Service console registry 1 Make sure that the optional GUI package was installed swlist 1 product grep VRTSorgui VRTSorgui 5 0 Veritas Storage Foundation Graphical User Interface for Oracle 2 Stop the VEA server opt VRTS bin vxsvcctrl stop 3 To give root privileges to the database administrator use the vxdbedusr command as follows opt VRTS bin vxdbedusr a user A f n user name where a user adds a user to the registry A grants the user root access f allows the user to be a user other than the opt VRTSdbed owner n indicates t
86. t offline opt VRTSvcs bin hagrp offline service group sys system name 6 Usethe following command to check if any VxFS file systems or Storage Checkpoints are mounted df F vxfs 7 Unmount all Storage Checkpoints and VxFS file systems umount checkpoint name umount filesystem 8 Verify that all file systems have been cleanly unmounted echo 8192B p S fsdb F vxfs filesystem grep clean flags 0 mod 0 clean clean value 32 Installing the Veritas software Preparing to install the Veritas software 10 11 12 13 14 15 A clean value value of 0x5a indicates the file system is clean 0x3c incidates the file system is dirty and 0x69 indicates the file system is dusty A dusty file system has pending extended operations Optional If a file system is not clean enter the following commands for that file system fsck F vxfs filesystem mount F vxfs filesystem mountpoint umount mountpoint This should complete any extended operations that were outstanding on the file system and unmount the file system cleanly There may be a pending large fileset clone removal extended operation if the umount command fails with the following error file system device busy You know for certain that an extended operation is pending if the following message is generated on the console Storage Checkpoint asynchronous operation on file_system file system still in progress Optional If an extended operation
87. ter The node from which the installation utility is run must have permissions to run rsh remote shell or ssh secure shell utilities as xoot on all cluster nodes or remote systems See Configuring SSH or RSH Before Installing Veritas Products in the Getting Started Guide for more information Read the Release Notes for all products included with this product Portable Document Format pdf versions of the Release Notes are included on the software disc in the storage foundation release notes directory and on the documentation disc that came with your software Because product Release Notes are not installed by any packages it is recommended that you copy them from the disc to the opt VRTS docs directory on your system so that they are available for future reference Veritas Volume Manager requirements Review the following Volume Manager related items before installing or upgrading Veritas Storage Foundation or Veritas Volume Manager Taking a disk inventory How to select disks Decide which disks you want to place under VxVM control The other disks in your configuration are not affected Disks may be brought under VxVM control in two ways m Encapsulated disks Data in all existing file systems and partitions on the disk are preserved m Initialized disks Data on the disks is removed Verifying disk contents Verify the disk contents Answer the following questions and list the data for your convenience 1 Make sur
88. ter of the Veritas Volume Manager Administrator s Guide for more information Note If you specify the name of a default disk group this step does not create the disk group After installation you can use menu item 1 in the vxdiskadm command or the Veritas Enterprise Administrator to create the disk group Finally a message displays indicating the utility is preparing to start the daemons on the target systems Preparing to start daemons on target system s Starting vxrelocd on hosti eee Success Starting vxcached on HOSET va ra riaa ahaa RRA A Rn ec thc Success Starting vxconfigbackupd on hosti Success Installing the Veritas software Installing the Veritas Storage Foundation 5 0 software Starting vxrelocd on host2 4 4 9 cesi era e ts EEEk Success Starting vxcached on HOSE s e e e se s ene es ene iene eom iom eset cen Success Starting vxconfigbackupd on host2 Success Storage Foundation Enterprise HA was started successfully Press Return to continue Press Return A message displays notifying you of a successful installation and the locations of the opt VRTS install files Installation log files summary file and response file are saved at opt VRTS install logs installer Tx0083 Reboot all systems on which VxFS was installed or upgraded shutdown y i6 g0 10 If you installed Veritas Storage Foundation for Oracle create a new repository d
89. the 11t tab file Verifying LLT Use the 11tstat command to verify that LLT links are active for each system in the cluster To verify that links are active for LLT Usethelitstat n as follows lltstat n With LLT configured correctly the output of 11tstat n shows all of the nodes in the cluster and two links for each node If the output shows otherwise type lltstat nvv more on any node to view additional information about LLT To obtain LLT port information Usetheiitstat p command as follows lltstat p About Group Membership and Atomic Broadcast After installation the file etc gabtab contains a gabconfig 1M command that configures the Group Membership and Atomic Broadcast GAB driver The file etc gabtab contains a line that resembles sbin gabconfig c nN where the c option configures the driver and nN specifies the cluster will not be formed until at least N nodes are ready The variable N represents the number of cluster nodes 48 Installing the Veritas software Converting to a VxVM root disk Verifying GAB To verify that GAB is operating Type the following command on each system sbin gabconfig a If GAB is operating the following GAB port membership information is returned GAB Port Memberships Port a gen a36e0003 membership 01 Port h gen fd570002 membership 01 Port a indicates that GAB is communicating gen a36e0003 is a randomly generated number and membership 01 indic
90. the information in files such as etc fstab You should also run the vxlicrep vxdisk list and vxprint ht commands and record the output from these You may need this information to reconfigure your system after the upgrade If you are upgrading an HA cluster follow the guidelines given in the Veritas Cluster Server VCS Installation Guide for information on preserving your VCS configuration across the upgrade procedure In particular you should take care to make backups of configuration files such as main cf and types cf in the etc VRTSvcs con config directory Additional configuration files such as Oracletypes cf may also be present in this directory if you have installed any VCS agents You should also back up these files To prepare for the Veritas software upgrade 1 Login as superuser 2 Perform any necessary preinstallation checks and configuration See Preinstallation Instructions on page 9 for more information 3 If you are upgrading Veritas Storage Foundation for Oracle resynchronize all existing snapshots before upgrading opt VRTS bin dbed vmsnap S S ORACLE SID f SNAPPLAN V O resync 4 Usethe vxlicrep command to make a record of the currently installed Veritas licenses Print the output or save it on a different system 5 If you are upgrading a high availability HA product take all service groups offline List all service groups 4 opt VRTSvcs bin hagrp list For each service group listed take i
91. tion is not updating the volume and that you have applied the sync command to the data on the volume Create a partition on free disk space of the same size as the volume using the format command If there is not enough free space for the partition add a new disk to the system for the first volume removed Subsequent volumes can use the free space generated by the removal of this first volume Copy the data on the volume onto the newly created disk partition using a command such as dd dd if dev vx dsk diskgroup lhome of dev dsk c2t2d2 where c2t2d2 is the disk outside of Volume Manager and s7 is the newly created partition Replace the entry for that volume if present in etc stab with an entry for the newly created partition Mount the disk partition if the corresponding volume was previously mounted Remove the volume from VERITAS Volume Manager using the command vxedit rf rm volume name Remove any free disks those having no subdisks defined on them by removing the volumes from VERITAS Volume Manager control To check if there are still some subdisks remaining on a particular disk use the vxprint command vxprint F sdnum diskname 76 Uninstalling the Veritas software Moving volumes to disk partitions If the output is not 0 there are still some subdisks on this disk that you need to remove If the output is 0 remove the disk from VERITAS Volume Manager contro
92. tional filesets are typically installed to simplify future upgrades 1 Required Veritas Storage Foundation depots 928 MB required 2 All Veritas Storage Foundation depots 1063 MB required Select the depots to be installed on all systems 1 2 q 2 Note If you are installing Veritas Storage Foundation for Oracle do not select the Storage Foundation for Oracle RAC packages option unless you have the correct license or setup 7 Enter 1 or 2 to select the depots to be installed and press Return 8 Reboot the system 9 Ifyou are installing on a cluster proceed to Configuring Veritas Storage Foundation on a cluster on page 36 to configure Storage Foundation Enterprise HA Otherwise read Configuring the Veritas software on page 57 for important details about initializing where required setting up and using the Veritas software Configuring Veritas Storage Foundation on a cluster The following sample procedure is based on the configuration of a Veritas Storage Foundation Enterprise HA cluster with two nodes host1 and host2 Default responses are enclosed by parentheses Press Return to accept defaults Note The procedure in this section is only relevant if you are installing an HA version of the Storage Foundation software To configure Storage Foundation on a cluster 1 Toinvoke the common installer run the installer command on the disc as shown in this example cd dvdrom
93. tory database volume is mounted using the df command If the repository database volume is not mounted run the s ua rep mount command to mount the volume opt VRTSdbcom config sfua rep mount start Use the s ua db config command with the o dropdb option to remove the database opt VRTS bin sfua db config o dropdb Uninstalling the Veritas software 73 Shutting down cluster operations To drop the repository database in an Oracle cluster or Oracle RAC configuration 1 Drop the repository database from the VCS configuration and deport the repository disk group opt VRTS bin sfua db config o unconfig cluster 2 Import the repository database disk group opt VRTS bin vxdg import repository diskgroup name 3 Runthe sfua rep mount command to mount the repository database volume opt VRTSdbcom config sfua rep mount start 4 Usethe s ua db config command with the o dropdb option to remove the database opt VRTS bin sfua db config o dropdb Shutting down cluster operations If the systems are running as an HA cluster you have to take all service groups offline and shutdown VCS To take all service groups offline and shutdown VCS Usethe nastop command as follows opt VRTSvcs bin hastop all Note Do not use the force option when executing hastop This will leave all service groups online and shut down VCS causing undesired results during uninstallation of the packages Removing the root dis
94. tra product packages to simplify future maintenance updates nolic Allows installation of product packages without entering a license key Licensed features cannot be configured started or used when this option is specified nooptionalpkgs Bypasses installation of optional product packages such as user documentation and manual pages nostart Bypasses startup of the product following installation and configuration Installation script options 85 Installation Script Options Table A 6 Available command line options patchpath patch path Designates the path of a directory that contains all patches to install The directory is typically an NFS mounted location and must be accessible all specified installation systems pkgpath package path Designates the path of a directory that contains all packages to install The directory is typically an NFS mounted location and must be accessible all specified installation systems precheck Performs a preinstallation check to determine if systems meet all installation requirements Symantec recommends doing a precheck before installing a product requiredpkgs Displays all required product packages in correct installation order Optional packages are not listed Output can be used to create scripts for command line installs or for installations over a network See installpkgs option responsefile response file enckeyfile encryption key fi
95. umes that are using the disk m Use the pvremove command to erase the LVM disk headers Note If the disk to be removed is the last disk in the volume group use the vgremove command to remove the volume group and then use pvremove to erase the LVM disk headers If the disk is not currently in use by any volume or volume group but has been initialized by pvcreate you must still use the pvremove command to remove LVM disk headers If you want to mirror the root disk across multiple disks make sure that all the disks are free from LVM control While booted on the newly upgraded LVM root disk invoke the vxcp_lvmroot command to clone the LVM root disk to the disk s you have designated to be the new VxVM root disks In the following example c1t0d0 is used for the target VxVM root disk etc vx bin vxcp_lvmroot v ci1t0dO To additionally create a mirror of the root disk on c2t0d0 etc vx bin vxcp lvmroot v m c2t0d0 c1t0d0 Use of the v verbose option is highly recommended The cloning of the root disk is a lengthy operation and this option gives a time stamped progress indication as each volume is copied and other major events Use the setboot 1M command to save the hardware path of the new VxVM root disk in the system NVRAM The disk hardware paths can be found using this command ioscan kfnC disk Reboot from the new VxVM root disk If you created a mirrored root disk then there is nothing more to do The LVM
96. uster Utilities Required VRTSgab Veritas Group Membership and Atomic Required Broadcast VRTSvesvr Veritas Cluster Server Agents for Veritas Required Volume Replicator VRTSjre Veritas Java Runtime Environment Required Redistribution VRTSjre15 Veritas Java Runtime Environment Required Redistribution VRTSIIt Veritas Low Latency Transport Required VRTSvcsag Veritas Cluster Server Bundled Agents Required VRTSvcsmg Veritas Cluster Server English Message Required Catalogs VRTSvcsw Veritas Cluster Manager Web Console Required VRTSvxfen Veritas I O Fencing Required VRTSacclib Veritas Cluster Server ACC Library 5 0 Required VRTScmcs Veritas Cluster Management Console for Required single cluster environments VRTScmecc Veritas Cluster Management Console Cluster Required Connector VRTSvcsdc Veritas Cluster Server Documentation Optional VRTSvesdr Veritas Cluster Server Documentation Optional Table A 1 Veritas Storage Foundation install packages Veritas Storage Foundation install packages Storage Foundation packages VRTSvcsmn Manual Pages for Veritas Cluster Server Optional Other Packages VRTSvlic Veritas Licensing Required SYMClma Symantec License Inventory Agent Required VRTScweb Symantec Web Server Required VRTSweb Symantec Web Server Required VRTSdcp Veritas Disk Correlator Provider Required VRTSdsa Veritas Datacenter
97. where packages are copied on remote systems before installation Appendix Veritas Storage Foundation install packages This appendix contains the following topics m Veritas Storage Foundation install packages on page 87 Veritas Storage Foundation install packages Table A 1 shows the package name and contents for each English package for m Veritas Storage Foundation m Veritas Storage Foundation for Oracle Table A 1 Storage Foundation packages Volume Manager packages VRTSvxvm Veritas Volume Manager Binaries Required VRTSvmweb Veritas Volume Manager Management Required Services Web Client Extensions VRTSvmman Veritas volume Manager Manual Pages Optional VRTSvmdoc Veritas Volume Manager Documentation Optional VRTSdcli Veritas Distributed Command Line Interface Required 88 Veritas Storage Foundation install packages Veritas Storage Foundation install packages Table A 1 Storage Foundation packages VRTSalloc Veritas Volume Manager Veritas Intelligent Required Storage Provisioning VRTSvmpro Veritas Volume Manager Management Required Services Provider VRTSvsve Veritas Volume Server and Client Provider Required VRTSvdid Veritas Device Identification API Required VRTSddlpr Veritas Device Discovery Layer services Required Provider File System packages VRTSvxfs Veritas File System Required VRTSfspro Veritas File System Management Services Requ
98. which are deployed on individual hosts in a network Each agent gathers product information on the supported Symantec products that are installed on the agent s host then sends the information to an access point or the server Configuring the Symantec License Inventory Agent 99 When the Symantec License Inventory Agent is installed When the Symantec License Inventory Agent is installed The Symantec product installer installs or upgrades the agent on the host with the Symantec product The agent is installed in the following directory opt SYMClma The agent is installed with a default configuration that minimizes its impact on arunning system The minimum configuration prevents remote communication with the agent to keep its data and interfaces secure When the server and access points are installed The server and access points are not installed automatically If you want to use the Symantec License Inventory Manager you must manually install the server and optionally the access points After you install the server and access points the agents can gather information and you can create inventory reports You can install the server and access points from the Symantec License Inventory Manager installation disc What you can do with the agent after it is installed If you are already participating in a Symantec sales program that requires the use of the agent or if you want to order and deploy the Symantec License Inventory Manag
99. xfsconvert 1M and fsadm_vxfs 1M manual pages When to use vxupgrade You can use the vxupgrade command to upgrade older VxFS disk layouts to disk layout Version 7 while the file system remains mounted vxupgrade n 7 mount point See the vxupgrade 1M and fsadm_vxfs 1M manual pages The contents of intent logs created on a previous disk layout version cannot be used after the disk layout version is upgraded See the Veritas Storage Foundation Release Notes Requirements for upgrading to disk layout Version 7 Converting a Version 4 5 or 6 disk layout to Version 7 disk layout requires adequate free space The space and time required to complete the upgrade increases with the number of files extended attributes and hard links in the file system Typical maximum space is at least two additional inodes with one block for every inode Allow at least ten minutes to upgrade for every million inodes in the file system 52 Installing the Veritas software Upgrading VxVM disk group versions Upgrading VxVM disk group versions All Veritas Volume Manager disk groups have an associated version number Each VxVM release supports a specific set of disk group versions and can import and perform tasks on disk groups with those versions Some new features and tasks work only on disk groups with the current disk group version so you need to upgrade existing disk groups before you can perform the tasks The following table summarizes the di
100. y the product installation Checking Volume Manager processes To confirm that key Volume Manager processes are running Type the following command ps e grep vx Entries for the vxconfigd vxnotify vxrelocd vxsmf vxpal vxcached and vxconfigbackupd processes should appear in the output from this command If you disable hot relocation the vxrelocd and vxnotify processes are not displayed 46 Installing the Veritas software Verifying the Veritas Storage Foundation installation Checking VxFS installation The Veritas File System package consists of a kernel component and administrative commands Command installation verification The Veritas File System commands are installed in two directories sbin fs vxfs5 0 Contains the Veritas mount command required to mount file systems opt VRTS bin Contains symbolic links to all Veritas specific commands installed in the directories listed above Determine whether these subdirectories are present ls sbin fs vxfs5 0 1s opt VRTS bin Make sure you have adjusted your environment variables accordingly See Environment variables on page 17 for details Checking cluster operation You need to check cluster operation only if you installed and configured an HA version of the Storage Foundation software To verify that the cluster is operating Type the following command on any node hastatus summary SYSTEM STATE System State Frozen A hostl RU
101. ymantec License Inventory Manager license inventory manager is an enterprise asset management tracking tool that inventories Symantec Information Availability products in your network and consolidates critical information on the deployment of these products to facilitate license management and compliance tracking Using the information provided by the license inventory manager you can Determine all the Symantec software products and licenses being used in your enterprise Achieve easier license self compliance management Know your Enterprise License Agreement deployment status Reduce administrative overhead for managing license compliance Renew support and maintenance based on the licenses you have deployed Gain more control over your Symantec software usage Manage department chargebacks based on actual software usage Use more flexible licensing and pricing models Exploit detailed deployment data to perform return on investment analyses for purchased software The license inventory manager is a three tiered system that consists of a server tier access point tier and an agent tier The server tier is the Symantec License Inventory Server which consolidates and stores information that it gathers from the agents and access points The optional access point tier includes Symantec License Inventory Access Points and serves as a consolidation layer between the agents and server The agent tier includes Symantec License Inventory Agents

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