Veritas Storage Foundation 5.1 SP1 Cluster File System Installation Guide (5900-1510, April 2011)

Technical Support ............................................................................................... 4
Section 1 Installation overview and planning .................. 21
Chapter 1 About Storage Foundation Cluster File System ............ 23
Veritas Storage Foundation Cluster File System suites ........................ 23
About I/O fencing ......................................................................... 24
About Veritas graphical user interfaces ............................................ 25
About Veritas Operations Manager ............................................ 25
Chapter 2 Before you install ................................................................ 27
About planning for SFCFS installation ............................................. 27
About installation and configuration methods ................................... 28
Assessing system preparedness ...................................................... 30
Symantec Operations Readiness Tools ....................................... 30
Prechecking your systems using the Veritas installer .................... 31
Downloading the Veritas Storage Foundation Cluster File System
software ............................................................................... 31
Setting environment variables ........................................................ 32
Optimizing LLT media speed settings on private NICs ......................... 33
Guidelines for setting the media speed of the LLT interconnects ........... 33
Creating the /opt directory ............................................................ 33
About configuring ssh or remsh using the Veritas installer .................. 34
Setting up shared storage .............................................................. 34
Setting up shared storage: SCSI ................................................ 35
Checking and changing SCSI Initiator IDs ................................... 35
Setting up shared storage: Fibre Channel .................................... 37
Cluster environment requirements .................................................. 39
Prerequisites for Veritas Storage Foundation Cluster File
System ................................................................................. 39
Hardware overview and requirements for Veritas Storage Foundation
Cluster File System ................................................................. 40
Shared storage ...................................................................... 41
Fibre Channel switch .............................................................. 41
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