Veritas Access Installation Guide

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Product(s): Access (7.4)
Platform: Linux
  1. Introducing Veritas Access
    1.  
      About Veritas Access
  2. Licensing in Veritas Access
    1.  
      About Veritas Access product licensing
  3. System requirements
    1.  
      Important release information
    2. System requirements
      1. Linux requirements
        1.  
          Operating system RPM installation requirements and operating system patching
        2.  
          Kernel RPMs that are required to be installed with exact predefined RPM versions
        3.  
          OL kernel RPMs that are required to be installed with exact predefined RPM versions
        4.  
          Required operating system RPMs for OL 7.3
        5.  
          Required operating system RPMs for OL 7.4
        6.  
          Required operating system RPMs for RHEL 7.3
        7.  
          Required operating system RPMs for RHEL 7.4
      2.  
        Software requirements for installing Veritas Access in a VMware ESXi environment
      3.  
        Hardware requirements for installing Veritas Access virtual machines
      4.  
        Management Server Web browser support
      5.  
        Supported NetBackup versions
      6.  
        Supported OpenStack versions
      7.  
        Supported Oracle versions and host operating systems
      8.  
        Supported IP version 6 Internet standard protocol
    3. Network and firewall requirements
      1.  
        NetBackup ports
      2.  
        OpenDedup ports and disabling the iptable rules
      3.  
        CIFS protocols and firewall ports
    4.  
      Maximum configuration limits
  4. Preparing to install Veritas Access
    1.  
      Overview of the installation process
    2.  
      Hardware requirements for the nodes
    3.  
      Connecting the network hardware
    4. About obtaining IP addresses
      1.  
        About calculating IP address requirements
      2.  
        Reducing the number of IP addresses required at installation time
    5.  
      About checking the storage configuration
  5. Deploying virtual machines in VMware ESXi for Veritas Access installation
    1.  
      Setting up networking in VMware ESXi
    2.  
      Creating a datastore for the boot disk and LUNs
    3.  
      Creating a virtual machine for Veritas Access installation
  6. Installing and configuring a cluster
    1.  
      Installation overview
    2.  
      Summary of the installation steps
    3.  
      Before you install
    4. Installing the operating system on each node of the cluster
      1.  
        About the driver node
      2.  
        Installing the operating system on the target Veritas Access cluster
      3.  
        Installing the Oracle Linux operating system on the target Veritas Access cluster
    5. Installing Veritas Access on the target cluster nodes
      1.  
        Installing and configuring the Veritas Access software on the cluster
      2.  
        Veritas Access Graphical User Interface
    6. About managing the NICs, bonds, and VLAN devices
      1.  
        Selecting the public NICs
      2.  
        Selecting the private NICs
      3.  
        Excluding a NIC
      4.  
        Including a NIC
      5.  
        Creating a NIC bond
      6.  
        Removing a NIC bond
      7.  
        Removing a NIC from the bond list
    7. About VLAN tagging
      1.  
        Creating a VLAN device
      2.  
        Removing a VLAN device
      3.  
        Limitations of VLAN tagging
    8.  
      Replacing an Ethernet interface card
    9.  
      Configuring I/O fencing
    10.  
      About configuring Veritas NetBackup
    11.  
      About enabling kdump during an Veritas Access configuration
    12.  
      Reconfiguring the Veritas Access cluster name and network
    13.  
      Configuring a KMS server on the Veritas Access cluster
  7. Automating Veritas Access installation and configuration using response files
    1.  
      About response files
    2.  
      Performing a silent Veritas Access installation
    3.  
      Response file variables to install and configure Veritas Access
    4.  
      Sample response file for Veritas Access installation and configuration
  8. Displaying and adding nodes to a cluster
    1.  
      About the Veritas Access installation states and conditions
    2.  
      Displaying the nodes in the cluster
    3.  
      Before adding new nodes in the cluster
    4.  
      Adding a node to the cluster
    5.  
      Adding a node in mixed mode environment
    6.  
      Deleting a node from the cluster
    7.  
      Shutting down the cluster nodes
  9. Upgrading Veritas Access and operating system
    1.  
      Upgrading the operating system and Veritas Access
  10. Upgrading Veritas Access using a rolling upgrade
    1.  
      About the rolling upgrades
    2.  
      Supported rolling upgrade paths for upgrades on RHEL and Oracle Linux
    3.  
      Performing a rolling upgrade using the installer
  11. Uninstalling Veritas Access
    1.  
      Before you uninstall Veritas Access
    2. Uninstalling Veritas Access using the installer
      1.  
        Removing Veritas Access 7.4 RPMs
      2.  
        Running uninstall from the Veritas Access 7.4 disc
  12. Appendix A. Installation reference
    1.  
      Installation script options
  13. Appendix B. Configuring the secure shell for communications
    1.  
      Manually configuring passwordless SSH
    2.  
      Setting up the SSH and the RSH connections
  14. Appendix C. Manual deployment of Veritas Access
    1.  
      Deploying Veritas Access manually on a two-node cluster in a non-SSH environment
    2.  
      Enabling internal sudo user communication in Veritas Access

System requirements

Table: System requirements for Veritas Access lists the per-node system requirements for running the Veritas Access system software.

Table: System requirements for Veritas Access

Minimum

Recommended

Each Veritas Access node using a 64-bit Intel-based server architecture that is compatible with Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 7 Update 3 and 4, Oracle Linux (OL) 7 Update 4, or AMD64, and Intel EMT. Itanium is not supported.

Two nodes of dual or quad core processors at 2.0 GHz or later for optimal performance.

32 GB error-correcting code (ECC) random-access memory (RAM)

The recommended values depend on the expected workload.

One internal drive with size equal to size of RAM + 60 GB

Dual boot drives each of size RAM + 60 GB or more capacity. In an FSS-based environment, additional internal drives (SSD + HDD) are recommended.

Four 1G Ethernet interfaces (Two ethernet interface are used for public and two for private network.)

Four 10G ethernet interfaces are recommended (Two ethernet interface are used for public and two for private network.).

One Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapters (HBA)

Two Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapters (HBAs) are recommended for high availability (HA) if you are using shared LUNs that need to be mapped over a Fibre Channel protocol. If the environment has only DAS or iSCSI disks, then the HBA requirement is optional.

Internal/external USB DVD-ROM DVD drive

N/A

Redundant power supply

Recommended, but not required.

SmartIO caching feature

A PCI-based SSD card is recommended if you want to use the SmartIO caching feature.

Minimum number of servers required is 1

N/A

Table: Operating system partition requirements for Veritas Access lists the operating system (OS) partition requirements for running the Veritas Access system software.

Table: Operating system partition requirements for Veritas Access

Partition

Recommended size (Minimum)

Details

/opt

100 GB

Used to store Veritas Access software, logs, and core dumps.

/usr

3 GB

Used to install the dependent OS rpms.

swap

8 GB

Used to swap space when physical memory is full.

/

30 GB

Used for the operating system.

Note:

The operating system partition requirements are only for Veritas Access, additional space is required for OS-specific packages, which needs to be allocated as required.