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Veritas Storage Foundation
Cluster File System
Installation Guide
HP-UX
5.0
N18486G
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Veritas Storage Foundation Cluster File System Installation Guide Copyright © 2006 Symantec Corporation. All rights reserved. SFCFS 5.0 Symantec, the Symantec logo, Veritas, and Veritas Storage Foundation Cluster File System are trademarks or registered trademarks of Symantec Corporation or its affiliates in the U.S. and other countries. Other names may be trademarks of their respective owners. The product described in this document is distributed under licenses restricting its use, copying,
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Third-party legal notices Third-party software may be recommended, distributed, embedded, or bundled with this Veritas product. Such third-party software is licensed separately by its copyright holder. All third-party copyrights associated with this product are listed in the accompanying release notes. HP-UX is a registered trademark of Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. Licensing and registration Veritas Storage Foundation Cluster File System is a licensed product. See the Veritas St
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Contents Chapter 1 Installing and configuring the product Hardware overview ..............................................................................................10 Shared storage ..............................................................................................11 Fibre channel switch ...................................................................................11 Cluster platforms .........................................................................................
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6 Chapter 2 Upgrading the product Preparing to upgrade the product ..................................................................... 36 Planning the upgrade .................................................................................. 36 Upgrade paths .............................................................................................. 36 Upgrade Overview ............................................................................................... 38 Phased upgrade .........
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Chapter 1 Installing and configuring the product This chapter describes how to install the Veritas Storage Foundation Cluster File System (SFCFS). SFCFS requires several Veritas software packages to configure a cluster and to provide messaging services. These packages include the Veritas Cluster Server (VCS) to monitor systems and application services, Veritas Low Latency Transport (LLT) and Veritas Group Membership and Atomic Broadcast (GAB) for messaging and cluster membership, the Verit
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10 Installing and configuring the product Hardware overview Hardware overview VxFS cluster functionality runs optimally on a Fibre Channel fabric. Fibre Channel technology provides the fastest, most reliable, and highest bandwidth connectivity currently available. By employing Fibre Channel technology, SFCFS can be used in conjunction with the latest Veritas Storage Area Network (SAN) applications to provide a complete data storage and retrieval solution. The figure below shows the configura
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Installing and configuring the product 11 Hardware overview Shared storage Shared storage can be one or more shared disks or a disk array connected either directly to the nodes of the cluster or through a Fibre Channel Switch. Nodes can also have non-shared or local devices on a local I/O channel. It is advisable to have /, /usr, /var and other system partitions on local devices. Fibre channel switch Each node in the cluster must have a Fibre Channel I/O channel to access shared storage dev
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12 Installing and configuring the product Software components Software components Storage Foundation for Cluster File System is the name of the Veritas Cluster File System product and its supporting software packages. Storage Foundation Cluster File System HA (SFCFS HA) provides support for application failover functionality of Veritas Cluster Server (VCS) in addition to other SFCFS features. Packages installed with SFCFS only The software packages listed below are required for implementing c
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Installing and configuring the product 13 Software components Package Contents VRTSvcs Veritas Cluster Server VRTSacclib Veritas ACC Library VRTSvcsag Veritas Cluster Server Bundled Agents VRTSvcsmg Veritas Cluster Server Message Catalogs VRTSjre Veritas Java Runtime Environment Redistribution VRTSjre15 Veritas Java Runtime Environment Redistribution VRTScutil Veritas Cluster Utilities VRTSweb Veritas Java Web Server VRTScscw Veritas Cluster Server Configuration Wizards VRTSvxvm Veritas Volume M
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14 Installing and configuring the product Software components Optional packages for SFCFS and SFCFS HA Packages Contents VRTScfsdc Veritas Cluster File System Documentation VRTScmccc Veritas Cluster Management Console Cluster Connector VRTScmcs Veritas Cluster Management Console (Single Cluster Mode) VRTScscm Veritas Cluster Server Cluster Manager VRTScssim Veritas Cluster Server Simulator VRTSfsdoc Veritas File System Documentation VRTSvcsdc Veritas Cluster Server Documentation VRTSvcsmn Verita
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Installing and configuring the product 15 Required HP-UX patches Required HP-UX patches HP-UX required patches include the following: HP-UX Patch ID Description PHCO_32385 Enables fscat(1M). PHCO_32387 Enables getext(1M). PHCO_32388 Enables setext(1M). PHCO_32389 Enables vxdump(1M). PHCO_32390 Enables vxrestore(1M). PHCO_32391 Enables vxfsstat(1M). PHCO_32392 Enables vxtunefs(1M). PHCO_32393 Enables vxupgrade(1M). PHCO_32488 Enables LIBC for VxFS 4.1 and later file systems. PHCO_32523 Enhancemen
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16 Installing and configuring the product Required HP-UX patches HP-UX Patch ID Description PHKL_32430 Changes to separate vxfs symbols from libdebug.a, so that symbols of VxFS 4.1and later are easily available in q4/p4. PHKL_32431 Changes to disallow mounting of a file system on a vnode having VNOMOUNT set. Enhancements for supporting quotas on large uids. PHKL_33312 LVM Cumulative Patch. PHKL_34010 Cumulative VM Patch. In addition to the above patches the EnableVXFS bundle needs to be insta
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Installing and configuring the product 17 Preinstallation Preinstallation Release Notes Read the Release Notes for all products included with this product. Portable Document Format (.pdf) versions of the Release Notes are included on the software disc in the storage_foundation_cluster_file_system/release_notes directory and on the documentation disc that came with your software. Because product Release Notes are not installed by any packages, it is recommended that you copy them from the di
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18 Installing and configuring the product Preinstallation Also, you can get the patches from Hewlett-Packard’s Patch Database offered under the Maintenance and Support section of the HP Services & Support - IT Resource Center. HP’s Patch Database provides fast, accurate searches for the latest recommended and superseded patches available for Veritas File System or Veritas Volume Manager. Setting PATH and MANPATH environment variables The software and online manual pages for the packages comp
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Installing and configuring the product 19 Prerequisites Veritas Enterprise Administrator The Veritas Enterprise Administrator (VEA) client can be installed and run on any machine that supports the Java Runtime Environment. VEA is required to access the graphical user interface (GUI) for Veritas Storage Foundation. You can use the GUI to administer disks, volumes, file systems, and database functionality on local or remote machines. One of the following packages needs to be installed and runni
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20 Installing and configuring the product Installing the product ■ The host names of the cluster nodes. ■ The device names of the network interface cards (NICs) used for the private networks among nodes. ■ 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 rsh (remote shell) or ssh (secure shell) utilities as root on all c
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Installing and configuring the product 21 Installing the product To install the product 1 Log in as superuser. 2 Insert the appropriate media disc into your system’s DVD-ROM drive connected to your system. 3 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. 4 Create a directory in which to mount the software disc and mount the disc using the appropriate drive name. For example: # mkdir -p /dvdrom # /usr/sbin/mou
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22 Installing and configuring the product Configuring the Components Configuring the Components This sections describes the configuration of SFCFS components. To configure the components 1 Log in as superuser. 2 Run the installer command to install the SFCFS. For example: # cd /cdrom # ./installer 3 From the Installation menu, choose the C option for Configuration and select 6 the Veritas Storage Foundation Cluster File System. You are prompted to enter one or more system names. Enter the sys
