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

Chapter 6 Installing Storage Foundation Cluster File System
using the web-based installer .................................... 65
About the Web-based installer ........................................................ 65
Features not supported with Web-based installer ............................... 66
Before using the Veritas Web-based installer ..................................... 66
Starting the Veritas Web-based installer .......................................... 67
Obtaining a security exception on Mozilla Firefox .............................. 67
Performing a pre-installation check with the Veritas Web-based
installer ............................................................................... 68
Installing SFCFS with the Web-based installer ................................... 68
Section 3 Configuration of Veritas Storage
Foundation Cluster File System .................... 71
Chapter 7 Preparing to configure SFCFS .......................................... 73
Preparing to configure the clusters in secure mode ............................ 73
Installing the root broker for the security infrastructure ............... 77
Creating authentication broker accounts on root broker
system ........................................................................... 78
Creating encrypted files for the security infrastructure ................. 79
Preparing the installation system for the security
infrastructure ................................................................. 81
About configuring SFCFS clusters for data integrity ........................... 82
About I/O fencing for Storage Foundation Cluster File System in
virtual machines that do not support SCSI-3 PR ........................... 83
About I/O fencing components ....................................................... 83
About data disks .................................................................... 84
About coordination points ....................................................... 84
About preferred fencing .......................................................... 85
About I/O fencing configuration files ............................................... 86
About planning to configure I/O fencing ........................................... 88
Typical SFCFS cluster configuration with server-based I/O
fencing ........................................................................... 92
Recommended CP server configurations ..................................... 93
Setting up the CP server ................................................................ 96
Planning your CP server setup .................................................. 96
Installing the CP server using the installer .................................. 97
Configuring the CP server cluster in secure mode ......................... 98
Setting up shared storage for the CP server database .................... 99
Configuring the CP server using the configuration utility ............. 100
Configuring the CP server manually ......................................... 108
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