Veritas Storage Foundation™ and High Availability Solutions 5.0.1 Getting Started Guide HP-UX 11i v3 HP Part Number: 5900-0081 Published: August 2010 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 Symantec Product Authentication Service ........
8 Contents Chapter 4 Where to find more information ...................................... 27 Documentation ............................................................................ 27 Service and support ......................................................................
Chapter 1 Product overview This chapter includes the following topics: ■ About Veritas Storage Foundation and High Availability products ■ Component software ■ Veritas Storage Foundation ■ Veritas Storage Foundation for Oracle ■ Storage Foundation Cluster File System ■ Storage Foundation for Oracle RAC 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 Availabi
10 Product overview Veritas Storage Foundation service protects communication channels among Symantec application clients and services through message integrity and confidentiality services. Before you install the authentication service, read the Storage Foundation and High Availability Solutions appendix in the Symantec Product Authentication Service Installation Guide. This document is located at the following directory in the release media. authentication_service/docs/vxat_install.
Product overview Veritas Storage Foundation for Oracle Veritas File System is a high performance journaling file system that provides easy management and quick-recovery for applications. Veritas File System delivers 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.
12 Product overview Storage Foundation Cluster File System Storage Foundation Cluster File System Before you install this product, complete the following tasks: ■ 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_cluster_file_system/docs/sfcfs_install.
Product overview Storage Foundation for Oracle RAC Cluster (RAC) environments. Certified by Oracle Corporation, Veritas Storage Foundation for Oracle RAC delivers a flexible solution that makes it easy to deploy and manage RAC.
14 Product overview Storage Foundation for Oracle RAC
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 media. The contents of each software media is shown on the media label. Find the location of the Getting Started Guide and Release Notes for each product in the corresponding product sections.
16 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.
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 Documentation references, before you install Before you install this product, become familiar with the
18 Installation overview Configuring secure shell (ssh) or remote shell before installing products 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.
Installation overview Configuring secure shell (ssh) or remote shell before installing products 19 shell) or ssh (secure shell) utilities. These utilities must run as root on all cluster nodes or remote systems. You can install products to remote systems using either secure shell (ssh) or remote shell (remsh).Using ssh is the default, and is recommended, to configure a secure shell environment before you install any Veritas product.
20 Installation overview Configuring secure shell (ssh) or remote shell before installing products To create the DSA key pair 1 On the source system (system1), log in as root, and navigate to the root directory. system1 # cd / 2 To generate a DSA key pair on the source system, type the following command: system1 # ssh-keygen -t dsa System output similar to the following is displayed: Generating public/private dsa key pair. Enter file in which to save the key (//.
Installation overview Configuring secure shell (ssh) or remote shell before installing products To append the public key from the source system to the authorized_keys file on the target system, using secure file transfer 1 Make sure the Secure File Transfer Program (SFTP) is enabled on all the target installation systems (system2 in this example).
22 Installation overview Configuring secure shell (ssh) or remote shell before installing products 6 At the sftp prompt, enter the following command: sftp> put /.ssh/id_dsa.pub The following output is displayed: Uploading /.ssh/id_dsa.pub to /id_dsa.
Installation overview Configuring secure shell (ssh) or remote shell before installing products 12 When you install from a source system that is also an installation target, also add the local system id_dsa.pub key to the local authorized_keys file. The installation can fail if the installation source system is not authenticated. To add the local system id_dsa.pub key to the local authorized_keys file, enter the following command: system1 # cat /.ssh/id_dsa.pub >> /.
24 Installation overview Mounting a software disc After you complete an installation procedure, delete the .rhosts file from each user’s $HOME directory to ensure security: # rm -f $HOME/.rhosts For more information on configuring the remote shell, see the operating system documentation and the remsh(1M) manual page . Mounting a software disc Veritas software is provided on a disc.
Installation overview Copying and unzipping the downloaded release To download the software 1 Verify that you have enough space on your filesystem to store the downloaded software. If you plan to install the software on the same system, ensure that you also have enough space for the installed software. 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.
26 Installation overview Copying and unzipping the downloaded release 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 . .
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.
28 Where to find more information Service and support
