Veritas Storage Foundation™ and High Availability Solutions 5.0.1 Getting Started Guide HP-UX 11i v3 HP Part Number: 5900-0081 Published: November 2009 Edition: 1.
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Contents Technical Support ............................................................................................... 4 Chapter 1 Product overview .................................................................. 9 About Veritas Storage Foundation and High Availability products ................................................................................ 9 Component software ................................................................ 9 Veritas Cluster Server ...............................
8 Contents Chapter 4 Where to find more information ...................................... 33 Documentation ............................................................................ 33 Service and support ......................................................................
Chapter 1 Product overview This chapter includes the following topics: ■ About Veritas Storage Foundation and High Availability products About Veritas Storage Foundation and High Availability products The following sections describe the products and component software available in this Veritas Storage Foundation and High Availability Solutions release. Component software The following component softwares are available in this Veritas Storage Foundation and High Availability Solutions release.
10 Product overview About Veritas Storage Foundation and High Availability products Before you select this method of setting up the authentication service, also read the product installation guide and release notes. Storage Foundation Management Server Storage Foundation Management Server (SF Management Server) provides a centralized management console for Veritas Storage Foundation products.
Product overview About Veritas Storage Foundation and High Availability products Installation overview Cluster Server is included in all Veritas high availability (HA) products. If you have purchased a Veritas product suite that includes Cluster Server, it is installed and updated as part of that product suite. Do not install or update it as an individual component.
12 Product overview About Veritas Storage Foundation and High Availability products In addition to the database agents that are provided in this release, other agents are available through an independent Symantec offer. The independent Symantec offer is called the Veritas Cluster Server Agent Pack. The agent pack includes the currently shipping agents and is re-released quarterly to add the new agents that are now under development.
Product overview About Veritas Storage Foundation and High Availability products ■ Read the product release notes. ■ Review the preliminary information. ■ Follow the instructions in the Storage Foundation Installation Guide. These documents are located at the following directories in the release media. storage_foundation/docs/sf_notes.pdf storage_foundation/docs/sf_install.
14 Product overview About Veritas Storage Foundation and High Availability products scalable performance, continuous availability, increased I/O throughput, and structural integrity. Veritas Volume Manager removes the physical limitations of disk storage. You can configure, share, manage, and optimize storage I/O performance online without interrupting data availability. Veritas Volume Manager also provides easy-to-use, online storage management tools to reduce downtime.
Product overview About Veritas Storage Foundation and High Availability products About Veritas Storage Foundation for Oracle® Veritas Storage Foundation for Oracle® by Symantec is an integrated set of system software enhancements and configuration guidelines. The enhancements and guidelines help Oracle database administrators configure a database system with high performance, availability, manageability, and reliability.
16 Product overview About Veritas Storage Foundation and High Availability products These documents are located at the following directories in the release media. storage_foundation_for_oracle_rac/docs/sfrac_notes.pdf storage_foundation/docs/sf_notes.pdf cluster_server/docs/vcs_notes.pdf storage_foundation_for_oracle_rac/docs/sfrac_install.
Chapter 2 How the discs are organized This chapter includes the following topics: ■ Contents of the software discs in the media kit ■ Disc directory structure Contents of the software discs in the media kit The Veritas Storage Foundation and High Availability Solutions media kit includes multiple software discs. The contents of each disc is shown on the disc label. Find the location of the Getting Started Guide and Release Notes for each product in the corresponding product sections.
18 How the discs are organized Disc directory structure Disc directory structure Table 2-1 lists the directory and contents of the Veritas Storage Foundation and High Availability Solutions disc. Table 2-1 Storage Foundation and High Availability Solutions disc directories Directory name or file name Contents 3rdpartyattributions.
How the discs are organized Disc directory structure Table 2-1 Storage Foundation and High Availability Solutions disc directories (continued) Directory name or file name Contents storage_foundation_for_oracle_rac Veritas Storage Foundation for Oracle RAC tools, scripts, and documentation volume_manager Veritas Volume Manager scripts volume_replicator Veritas Volume Replicator tools, scripts, and documentation windows Volume Replicator advisor Windows clients, VCS Windows installers, VCS Cluster
20 How the discs are organized Disc directory structure
Chapter 3 Installation overview This chapter includes the following topics: ■ Documentation references, before you install ■ Performing preinstallation checks and configuration ■ Configuring secure shell (ssh) or remote shell before installing products ■ Mounting a software disc ■ Downloading the Storage Foundation and High Availability software ■ Copying and unzipping the downloaded release ■ About Veritas Operations Services Documentation references, before you install Before you install t
22 Installation overview Performing preinstallation checks and configuration Note: Upgrades are not supported in this RU3 release. Only users with superuser (root) privileges can install, upgrade, or initialize Veritas Storage Foundation on HP-UX. Review the preinstallation requirements and system requirements. Install the operating system, before installing the Veritas software. The product documentation is available on the web at the following location: http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index.
Installation overview Configuring secure shell (ssh) or remote shell before installing products Configuring secure shell (ssh) or remote shell before installing products Establishing communication between nodes is required to install Veritas software from a remote system, or to install and configure a cluster. The node from which the installation utility is run must have permissions to run remsh (remote shell) or ssh (secure shell) utilities.
24 Installation overview Configuring secure shell (ssh) or remote shell before installing products Figure 3-1 Creating the DSA key pair and appending it to target systems Source System: system1 Private Key Target System: system2 Public Key authorized_keys file Read the ssh documentation and online manual pages before enabling ssh. Contact your operating system support provider for issues regarding ssh configuration. Visit the OpenSSH website that is located at: http://openssh.
Installation overview Configuring secure shell (ssh) or remote shell before installing products 4 When the program asks you to enter the passphrase, press the Enter key twice. Enter passphrase (empty for no passphrase): Do not enter a passphrase. Press Enter. Enter same passphrase again: Press Enter again. 5 Make sure the /.ssh directory is on all the target installation systems (system2 in this example).
26 Installation overview Configuring secure shell (ssh) or remote shell before installing products 3 From the source system (system1), move the public key to a temporary file on the target system (system2). Use the secure file transfer program. In this example, the file name id_dsa.pub in the root directory is the name for the temporary file for the public key.
Installation overview Configuring secure shell (ssh) or remote shell before installing products 8 To begin the ssh session on the target system (system2 in this example), type the following command on system1: system1 # ssh system2 Enter the root password of system2 at the prompt: password: 9 After you log in to system2, enter the following command to append the id_dsa.pub file to the authorization key file: system2 # cat /id_dsa.pub >> /.ssh/authorized_keys 10 After the id_dsa.
28 Installation overview Mounting a software disc To verify that you can connect to a target system 1 On the source system (system1), type the following command: system1 # ssh -l root system2 uname -a where system2 is the name of the target system. 2 The command should execute from the source system (system1) to the target system (system2) without the system requesting a passphrase or password. 3 Repeat this procedure for each target system.
Installation overview Downloading the Storage Foundation and High Availability software To mount the software disc 1 Place the Veritas software disc into a DVD drive connected to your system and log in as superuser. 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.
30 Installation overview Copying and unzipping the downloaded release 2 To see the space available, you can use the df command with the name of the local file system where you intend to download the software. # df -b filesystem Caution: When you select a location to download files, do not select a directory that contains Veritas products from a previous release or maintenance pack. You must download the Veritas 5.0 software and the Veritas software into separate directories.
Installation overview About Veritas Operations Services To untar the downloaded file ◆ Untar the downloaded file to your new installation directory. # cd /parent_directory/install # tar xf filename1.tar # tar xf filename2.tar # tar xf filename3.tar . . About Veritas Operations Services Veritas Operations Services (VOS) is a Web-based application that is designed specifically for Veritas Storage Foundation and High Availability products.
32 Installation overview About Veritas Operations Services
Chapter 4 Where to find more information This chapter includes the following topics: ■ Documentation ■ Service and support Documentation You can access product documentation in the following ways: ■ Veritas documents are in Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) on the product discs or downloaded software. ■ The product documentation is available on the Web at the following URL: http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index.
34 Where to find more information Service and support
