Veritas InfoScale™ 7.4.1 Installation and Upgrade Guide - Windows
- Preinstallation and planning
- About the Veritas InfoScale product suite
- Supported hardware and software
- Disk space requirements
- Installation requirements
- Requirements for installing InfoScale Storage in a Microsoft Failover Cluster
- Recommendations and best practices
- About InfoScale licenses
- About telemetry data collection in InfoScale
- Installing the Veritas InfoScale products
- About installing the InfoScale products
- About the co-existence of InfoScale products
- Installing the server components using the installation wizard
- Applying the selected installation and product options to multiple systems
- Installing the server components using the command-line installer
- Parameters for Setup.exe
- Available product options and supported DMP DSMs
- Registering the InfoScale Storage resource DLLs
- Installing the client components
- Upgrading to InfoScale products
- Performing the post upgrade tasks
- Deployment scenarios and applicable post upgrade tasks
- Re-enabling Volume Replicator in a non-clustered environment
- Re-enabling Volume Replicator in a Microsoft failover cluster environment
- Reconnecting DMP DSM paths after the upgrade
- Reconfiguring the Veritas InfoScale Messaging Service
- Importing the configured rules
- Upgrading clusters for stronger security
- Reinstalling the custom agents
- Including custom resources
- Administering the InfoScale product installation
- Uninstalling the InfoScale products
- Performing application upgrades in an InfoScale environment
- Upgrading Microsoft SQL Server
- Upgrading Oracle
- Upgrading application service packs in an InfoScale environment
- Appendix A. Services and ports
- Appendix B. Migrating from a third-party multi-pathing solution to DMP
Installation requirements
Before you install an InfoScale product, ensure that all its installation requirements are met. The following table lists the requirements for each InfoScale product.
Table: Installation prerequisites
Pre-requisites | Veritas InfoScale Foundation | Veritas InfoScale Availability | Veritas InfoScale Storage | Veritas InfoScale Enterprise |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Ensure that the latest Microsoft Windows updates are installed on the systems. The latest updates are required for successfully installing Microsoft Visual C++ 2015 Redistributable-x64. The product installation fails if Microsoft Visual C++ 2015 Redistributable-x64 is not installed. | ✓ | X | ✓ | ✓ |
Spyware monitoring and removal software is disabled | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
The ports and services that are used during installation for both, inbound and outbound communication are enabled For a list of required ports and services, | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Three network adapters are available | X | ✓ | X | ✓ |
Minimum one IP address that is not assigned by Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) is available | X | X | ✓ | ✓ |
At least two IO paths from the server to the storage array for load balancing | ✓ | X | ✓ | ✓ |
Microsoft Failover Cluster is configured (Applicable only if you plan to configure a Microsoft Failover Cluster) | X | X | ✓ | X |
Microsoft .NET Framework 4.5 is installed (This requirement applies to both, server as well as client-only components.) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Computer Browser Service is enabled | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Microsoft Windows Service (WMI) is activated | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
No parallel installations, live updates, or Microsoft Windows updates are in progress | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 SP1 (x64) and the Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 SP1 (x86) re-distributable package is installed on the systems where you would want to launch the client consoles (VEA, Java Console, SCC etc) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
The user account is included as a domain user and has local administrators privileges on all the systems | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
The user account has write permissions for the Active Directory objects corresponding to all the systems | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
The user account has administrative privileges on all the systems to load and unload device drivers | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
All systems are in the same domain | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Remote systems are accessible over the network and the user account has local administrative privileges to all the systems | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Trust relationship is set up for systems in different domains (Applicable only if you plan to configure a disaster recovery setup in which the systems at the primary site and the secondary site are in different domains) | X | ✓ | X | ✓ |
For IPv4 network, the required IP addresses are available | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
For IPv6 network, the IP address configuration is "stateless automatic", the IP address format is "Global unicast" or "Unique localcast", and the prefix is advertised | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
The system is a part of Windows Active Directory domain | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
DNS Service is available | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
The host has an HBA (host bus adapter) port for each path to the SAN switch | ✓ | X | ✓ | ✓ |
The host has one SCSI or fiber cable per host bus adapter port | ✓ | X | ✓ | ✓ |
In case of iSCSI, each host bus adapter port has a unique SCSI ID | ✓ | X | ✓ | ✓ |
Only one path is connected during product installation | ✓ | X | ✓ | ✓ |
The Windows Storport driver is installed | ✓ | X | ✓ | ✓ |
Correct hardware drivers for the DMP DSMs are installed | ✓ | X | ✓ | ✓ |
The MPIO server feature is enabled | ✓ | X | ✓ | ✓ |
No other third-party DSMs are installed for the same array | ✓ | X | ✓ | ✓ |