Veritas Storage Foundation and HA Solution Getting Started Guide

Only users with superuser (root) privileges can install, upgrade, and initialize

Veritas Storage Foundation.

Review the preinstallation requirements and system requirements. Install the

operating system before installing the Veritas software.

The product documentation is available at the following location:

http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index.jsp

Use the swinstall command to install the products.

To install the bundle, enter the following command:

# swinstall -x autoreboot=true -s <source depot location> <bundle name>

If patches to the HP-UX operating system are required, the patches must be applied

prior to installing the Veritas products. Patches may be required to resolve HP-UX

kernel, product performance, or other issues. Patches may be required for Veritas,

HP-UX, or Oracle software.

The system must be in a quiescent state before adding patches.

See the product Release Notes for last minute information on recommended

patches.

You must obtain new licenses to use all of the features in the Veritas Storage

Foundation software. Any Veritas licenses for the previous releases that are

currently installed allow you to use only a limited subset of these features.

For remote installation, or installation on multiple systems, set up remsh or ssh.

See “Configuring secure shell (ssh) or remote shell before installing products ”

on page 18.

Mount the Veritas software disc, or download and uncompress the Storage

Foundation software.

See “Mounting a software disc ” on page 24.

See “Downloading the Storage Foundation and High Availability software ”

on page 24.

Configuring secure shell (ssh) or remote shell before

installing products

You must establish communication between the nodes to install the Veritas

software from a remote system, or install and configure a cluster. The node from

which the installation utility is run must have permissions to run remsh (remote

Installation overview

Configuring secure shell (ssh) or remote shell before installing products