Veritas InfoScale™ 7.4.1 Installation and Upgrade Guide - Windows

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Product(s): InfoScale & Storage Foundation (7.4.1)
Platform: Windows
  1. Preinstallation and planning
    1.  
      About the Veritas InfoScale product suite
    2.  
      Supported hardware and software
    3.  
      Disk space requirements
    4.  
      Installation requirements
    5.  
      Requirements for installing InfoScale Storage in a Microsoft Failover Cluster
    6.  
      Recommendations and best practices
    7. About InfoScale licenses
      1.  
        Licensing notes
      2.  
        vxlicrep command
      3.  
        About Veritas License Audit Tool
    8.  
      About telemetry data collection in InfoScale
  2. Installing the Veritas InfoScale products
    1.  
      About installing the InfoScale products
    2.  
      About the co-existence of InfoScale products
    3.  
      Installing the server components using the installation wizard
    4.  
      Applying the selected installation and product options to multiple systems
    5.  
      Installing the server components using the command-line installer
    6.  
      Parameters for Setup.exe
    7.  
      Available product options and supported DMP DSMs
    8.  
      Registering the InfoScale Storage resource DLLs
    9.  
      Installing the client components
  3. Upgrading to InfoScale products
    1. Preparing the systems for an upgrade
      1.  
        About the supported upgrade paths and the supported minimum product versions
      2.  
        General preparations
      3.  
        Recommendations and considerations for product upgrade
    2. Performing the product upgrade
      1. Upgrading SFW or SFW Basic in a non-clustered environment
        1.  
          Preparing the primary site for upgrade in a non-clustered SFW environment
      2. Upgrading SFW or SFW Basic in a Windows Server Failover Cluster environment
        1.  
          Preparing the secondary site for upgrade in a Windows Server Failover Cluster environment
        2.  
          Failing over application to secondary site
        3.  
          Preparing the primary site for upgrade in a Windows Server Failover Cluster environment
      3.  
        Upgrading VCS
      4. Upgrading SFW HA
        1.  
          Preparing the primary and secondary sites for upgrade in a Volume Replicator environment
        2.  
          Associating the replication logs and starting the replication
        3.  
          Re-enabling Volume Replicator in a VCS cluster
      5.  
        Upgrading DMP
    3.  
      About transitioning between the InfoScale products
  4. Performing the post upgrade tasks
    1.  
      Deployment scenarios and applicable post upgrade tasks
    2.  
      Re-enabling Volume Replicator in a non-clustered environment
    3.  
      Re-enabling Volume Replicator in a Microsoft failover cluster environment
    4.  
      Reconnecting DMP DSM paths after the upgrade
    5.  
      Reconfiguring the Veritas InfoScale Messaging Service
    6.  
      Importing the configured rules
    7.  
      Upgrading clusters for stronger security
    8.  
      Reinstalling the custom agents
    9.  
      Including custom resources
  5. Administering the InfoScale product installation
    1.  
      Adding or removing product options
    2.  
      Managing InfoScale licenses
    3.  
      Managing the Veritas Telemetry Collector
    4.  
      Repairing an InfoScale product installation
    5.  
      About reinstalling InfoScale products
  6. Uninstalling the InfoScale products
    1.  
      About uninstalling the InfoScale products
    2.  
      Uninstalling the InfoScale products using the installation wizard
  7. Performing application upgrades in an InfoScale environment
    1. Upgrading Microsoft SQL Server
      1. Upgrading to later versions of SQL Server
        1.  
          Upgrading SQL Server on the first cluster node
        2.  
          Upgrading SQL Server on additional failover nodes
        3.  
          Creating the new SQL Server service group
    2. Upgrading Oracle
      1.  
        Performing the post upgrade tasks
      2.  
        Associating the updated Oracle database with the listener
      3. Configuring the Oracle database and listener to use the virtual IP address
        1.  
          Setting the dispatchers parameter in PFILE
        2.  
          Setting the dispatchers parameter in SPFILE
      4.  
        Configuring Oracle and listener services
      5.  
        Modifying the ServiceName attribute for the netlsnr resource
    3. Upgrading application service packs in an InfoScale environment
      1. Upgrading the Exchange Server service packs
        1.  
          Upgrading Exchange Server 2010 to a service pack
      2. Upgrading the SQL Server service packs
        1.  
          Upgrading SQL Server 2012 or later to a compatible service pack
      3.  
        Upgrading SharePoint Server 2010 to a service pack
  8. Appendix A. Services and ports
    1.  
      InfoScale ports and services
  9. Appendix B. Migrating from a third-party multi-pathing solution to DMP
    1.  
      Migrating from EMC PowerPath
    2. Migrating from Hitachi Dynamic Link Manager (HDLM)
      1.  
        Uninstalling HDLM in a non-clustered environment
      2.  
        Uninstalling HDLM in a clustered (MSCS or VCS) environment
    3.  
      Configuring DMP for Active/Active load balancing in a cluster

Parameters for Setup.exe

The following table describes the parameters that you can use with the Setup.exe command.

Parameter

Use

/s

Set for silent mode. If not set, boots the product installation wizard.

INSTALL_MODE

Set to indicate an installation or uninstallation.

1 = To install

5 = To uninstall

Example: INSTALL_MODE=1

Note:

The parameter, INSTALL_MODE=1 is used for both a new installation, as well as an upgrade. The installer switches to the correct mode (installation or upgrade) depending upon what has already been installed on the selected system.

SOLUTIONS

Set to the type of installation.

1 = Veritas InfoScale Storage

2 = Veritas InfoScale Enterprise

3 = Veritas InfoScale Availability

4 = Veritas InfoScale Foundation

Example: SOLUTIONS=1

edge_server

Use this parameter to configure the edge server.

Enter telemetry.veritas.com to use the Veritas Cloud Receiver, which is a preconfigured, cloud-based edge server deployed by Veritas.

Note:

An edge server is used to collect licensing and platform related information from InfoScale products as part of the Veritas Product Improvement Program. The information collected helps identify how customers deploy and use the product, and enables Veritas to manage customer licenses more efficiently.

port

Use this parameter to configure the port number of the edge server.

Enter 443, which is the port number used by the Veritas Cloud Receiver.

Note:

An edge server is used to collect licensing and platform related information from InfoScale products as part of the Veritas Product Improvement Program. The information collected helps identify how customers deploy and use the product, and enables Veritas to manage customer licenses more efficiently.

INSTALLDIR

Set the installation directory path. The path must start and end with a quotation mark.

The default setting is SystemDrive: \Program files\Veritas

Example: INSTALLDIR="C:\InstallationDirectory"

This is an optional parameter.

Note:

If you plan to configure the cluster for single sign-on authentication and your system runs a non-English locale operating system, ensure that the installation directory contains only English characters.

Reboot

Set for the automatic reboot of the system at the completion of the installation.

0 = No reboot

1 = Reboot

The default setting is 0 for no system reboot.

Example: Reboot=1

Note:

This is an optional parameter.

Node

Set the node name. Specify only one node at a time.

The local node is the default setting when the node is unspecified.

The machine name of the node must start and end with a quotation mark (").

Example: Node="PC177VM-3"

LICENSEKEY

Set the license key for the installation. Provide the absolute path of the .slf license key saved on your local node. The path must be enclosed within the double quotation marks (").

Example:

LICENSEKEY="C:\Users\Administrator\Downloads\SLF_PER_Keys\A2946457383_QTY10_INFOSCALE_LIC_ENT_WIN_7_4_314050392.slf"

Note:

This parameter is applicable only if you plan to use the "User entered license key" as your license type. You need not specify this parameter for "Keyless" license type.

For details about the InfoScale licenses, see:

See About InfoScale licenses.

Options

Set the desired options, if any. The option must start and end with a quotation mark ("). Multiple options can be entered, using a comma as a separator.

Options differ depending on your product and environment.

There are no default settings.

For details about the available product options and their usage,

See Available product options and supported DMP DSMs.

NoOptionDiscovery

Set this parameter to uninstall the previously installed options during an upgrade.

Default value is 0.

If this parameter is set to 0, the setup discovers the previously installed options which are not specified in the OPTIONS parameter, and the setup exits. Rerun the setup and either include the previously installed options individually in the OPTIONS parameter or specify "Installed" in the OPTIONS parameter.

If you set this parameter to 1 during an upgrade, the setup uninstalls the previously installed options which are not specified in the OPTIONS parameter.