In this post we will see how to install storage foundation high availability packages on two servers using the installer on vmware Solaris guest operating systems.This installation same on actual Solaris physical servers and Linux servers. The simple installer will help you what product you want to install on the servers. If you want to install veritas cluster server along with veritas volume manager,choose SFHA.
To install SFHA on two nodes simultaneously ,we should configure the password less authentication configured on both Solaris host.
To see,how to configure password less authentication.
Download the trail packages from the below link.You can create new account and login to download packages.
Choose the package for Solaris 10 X64.
bash-3.00# df -h /
Filesystem size used avail capacity Mounted on
rpool/ROOT/s10x_u9wos_14a 9.8G 3.7G 4.7G 45% /
I have used vmware shared folder option to copy the software bundle to Solaris.
Copy the veritas package to /var/tmp
bash-3.00# cd /hgfs
bash-3.00# cp VRTS_SF_HA_Solutions_5.1_Solaris_x64.tar /var/tmp/
bash-3.00# cd /var/tmp
Extract the TAR file
bash-3.00# tar xvfq VRTS_SF_HA_Solutions_5.1_Solaris_x64.tar
x ./dvd2-sol_x64, 0 bytes, 0 tape blocks
x ./dvd2-sol_x64/file_system, 0 bytes, 0 tape blocks
x ./dvd2-sol_x64/file_system/copyright, 882 bytes, 2 tape blocks
x ./dvd2-sol_x64/file_system/docs, 0 bytes, 0 tape blocks
x ./dvd2-sol_x64/file_system/docs/vxfs_admin.pdf, 2167838 bytes, 4235 tape blocks
x ./dvd2-sol_x64/file_system/docs/vxfs_ref.pdf, 1184309 bytes, 2314 tape blocks
x ./dvd2-sol_x64/file_system/pkginfo.txt, 845 bytes, 2 tape blocks
x ./dvd2-sol_x64/file_system/installfs, 4632 bytes, 10 tape blocks
x ./dvd2-sol_x64/file_system/uninstallfs, 4634 bytes, 10 tape blocks
x ./dvd2-sol_x64/storage_foundation, 0 bytes, 0 tape blocks
x ./dvd2-sol_x64/storage_foundation/copyright, 882 bytes, 2 tape blocks
x ./dvd2-sol_x64/storage_foundation/docs, 0 bytes, 0 tape blocks
x ./dvd2-sol_x64/storage_foundation/docs/sf_advanced_admin.pdf, 2373478 bytes, 4636 tape blocks
x ./dvd2-sol_x64/storage_foundation/docs/sf_install.pdf, 3762466 bytes, 7349 tape blocks
x ./dvd2-sol_x64/readme_first.txt, 30397 bytes, 60 tape blocks
x ./dvd2-sol_x64/EULA.pdf, 637767 bytes, 1246 tape blocks
x ./dvd2-sol_x64/windows, 0 bytes, 0 tape blocks
x ./dvd2-sol_x64/windows/VRTSvradv.msi, 29723136 bytes, 58053 tape blocks
bash-3.00#
bash-3.00# cd dvd2-sol_x64/
bash-3.00# ls -lrt
total 3237
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 313173 Dec 10 2008 3rdpartyattributions.pdf
drwxrwxr-x 4 root root 4 Sep 14 2009 perl
-rw-r--r-- 1 root other 637767 Oct 5 2009 EULA.pdf
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root other 13588 Oct 8 2009 webinstaller
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root other 4620 Oct 8 2009 installer
drwxr-xr-x 4 root other 4 Oct 8 2009 xprtl
drwxrwxr-x 3 root root 7 Oct 8 2009 file_system
drwxrwxr-x 4 root root 9 Oct 8 2009 storage_foundation_for_oracle_rac
drwxrwxr-x 4 root root 10 Oct 8 2009 storage_foundation_cluster_file_system
drwxrwxr-x 4 root root 11 Oct 8 2009 storage_foundation
drwxrwxr-x 2 root root 3 Oct 8 2009 windows
drwxrwxr-x 7 root root 19 Oct 8 2009 scripts
drwxrwxr-x 2 root root 27 Oct 8 2009 pkgs
drwxrwxr-x 4 root root 9 Oct 8 2009 cluster_server
drwxrwxr-x 4 root root 9 Oct 8 2009 volume_manager
drwxrwxr-x 3 root root 7 Oct 8 2009 authentication_service
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6621 Nov 5 2009 jumpstart_readme.txt
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 413847 Nov 5 2009 getting_started.pdf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 30397 Nov 10 2009 readme_first.txt
bash-3.00#
Run the installer to start the installation
Arena-Node1#./installer
Storage Foundation and High Availability Solutions 5.1 Install Program
Logs are being written to /var/tmp/installer-201207292315kdI while installer is in progress.
Symantec Product Version Installed Licensed
==================================================
Symantec Licensing Utilities (VRTSvlic) are not installed due to which products and licenses are not discovered.
Use the menu below to continue.
Task Menu:
P) Perform a Pre-Installation Check I) Install a Product
C) Configure an Installed Product G) Upgrade a Product
L) License a Product U) Uninstall a Product
D) View a Product Description S) Start a Product
R) View Product Requirements X) Stop a Product
Q) Quit ?) Help
Enter a Task: [P,I,C,G,L,U,D,S,R,X,Q,?]I
(Select I for installing the product)
1) Veritas Cluster Server (VCS)
2) Storage Foundation (SF)
3) Storage Foundation and High Availability (SFHA)
4) Storage Foundation for Cluster File System (SFCFS)
5) Storage Foundation for Cluster File System/HA (SFCFSHA)
6) Veritas Storage Foundation for Oracle RAC (SF Oracle RAC)
7) Symantec Product Authentication Service (AT)
b) Back to previous menu
Select a product to install: [1-7,b,q] 3
(Select 3 for installing VCS+VXVM)
Do you agree with the terms of the End User License Agreement as specified in the EULA.pdf file present on media? [y,n,q,?] y
1) Install minimal required Storage Foundation HA packages - 484 MB required
2) Install recommended Storage Foundation HA packages - 681 MB required
3) Install all Storage Foundation HA packages - 728 MB required
4) Display packages to be installed for each option
Select the packages to be installed on all systems? [1-4,q,?] (2)
(Select the recommend packages)
Enter the Solaris x64 system names separated by spaces: [q,?] node1 node2
(Enter the host names with space where you want to install)
Storage Foundation and High Availability 5.1 Install Program
node1 node2
Logs are being written to /var/tmp/installer-201207292315kdI while installer is in progress
Verifying systems: 100%
Estimated time remaining: 0:00 8 of 8
Checking system communication ...........................................Done
Checking release compatibility ......................................... Done
Checking installed product ..............................................Done
Checking installed patches ..............................................Done
Checking platform version ...............................................Done
Checking file space .....................................................Done
Performing product license checks .......................................Done
Performing product prechecks ............................................Done
System verification checks completed successfully
Storage Foundation and High Availability 5.1 Install Program
node1 node2
The following Storage Foundation High Availability packages will be installed on all systems:
VRTSvlic Veritas Licensing
VRTSperl Veritas Perl 5.10.0 Redistribution
VRTSspt Veritas Software Support Tools by Symantec
VRTSob Veritas Enterprise Administrator Service by Symantec
VRTSvxvm Veritas Volume Manager Binaries
VRTSaslapm Volume Manager - ASL/APM
VRTSsfmh Veritas Storage Foundation Managed Host by Symantec
VRTSvxfs Veritas File System
VRTSllt Veritas Low Latency Transport
VRTSgab Veritas Group Membership and Atomic Broadcast
VRTSvxfen Veritas I/O Fencing by Symantec
VRTSvcs Veritas Cluster Server
VRTSvcsag Veritas Cluster Server Bundled Agents by Symantec
VRTScutil Veritas Cluster Utility by Symantec
VRTSat Symantec Product Authentication Service
VRTSvcsea Veritas DBED agents
VRTSdbed Veritas Storage Foundation Databases
VRTSodm Veritas Oracle Disk Manager
Press [Enter] to continue:
Installing SFHA: 100%
Estimated time remaining: 0:00 22 of 22
Performing SFHA preinstall tasks ................................ Done
Installing VRTSvlic package ..................................... Done
Installing VRTSperl package ..................................... Done
Installing VRTSspt package ...................................... Done
Installing VRTSob package ....................................... Done
Installing VRTSvxvm package ..................................... Done
Installing VRTSaslapm package ................................... Done
Installing VRTSsfmh package ..................................... Done
Installing VRTSvxfs package ..................................... Done
Installing VRTSllt package ...................................... Done
Installing VRTSgab package ...................................... Done
Installing VRTSvxfen package .................................... Done
Installing VRTSvcs package ...................................... Done
Installing VRTSvcsag package .................................... Done
Installing VRTScutil package .................................... Done
Installing VRTSat package ....................................... Done
Installing VRTSvcsea package .................................... Done
Installing VRTSdbed package ..................................... Done
Installing VRTSodm package ...................................... Done
Performing SFHA postinstall tasks ............................... Done
Checking SFHA licenses .......................................... Done
Copying installer libraries and scripts ......................... Done
Storage Foundation and High Availability 5.1 Install Program
node1 node2
To comply with the terms of Symantec's End User License Agreement, you have 60 days to either:
* Enter a valid license key matching the functionality in use on the systems
* Enable keyless licensing and manage the systems with a Management Server. For more details visit
http://go.symantec.com/sfhakeyless. The product is fully functional during these 60 days.
1) Enter a valid license key
2) Enable keyless licensing and complete system licensing later
How would you like to license the systems? [1-2,q] (2)
(Select keyless licensing for trial)
1) SF Standard HA
2) SF Enterprise HA
b) Back to previous menu
Select product mode to license: [1-2,b,q,?] (1)
(Select standard HA license)
Would you like to enable the Veritas Volume Replicator? [y,n,q] (n)
(No to volume replicator)
Registering SFHA license
Storage Foundation High Availability Install completed successfully.
Would you like to configure SFHA on node1 node2 [y,n,q] (n)
Storage Foundation High Availability cannot be started without configuration.
Run the '/opt/VRTS/install/installsf -configure' command when you are ready to configure Storage Foundation High
Availability.
The following packages require reboot while installing them on node1:
VRTSvxfs
The following packages require reboot while installing them on node2:
VRTSvxfs
It is strongly recommended to reboot the following systems:
node1
node2
Execute '/usr/sbin/shutdown -y -i6 -g0' to properly restart your systems
installer log files, summary file, and response file are saved at:
/opt/VRTS/install/logs/installer-201207292315kdI
After completion of the installation,we have to reboot the nodes using shutdown command.
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