InfoScale™ 9.0 Storage Foundation Configuration and Upgrade Guide - Linux

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Product(s): InfoScale & Storage Foundation (9.0)
Platform: Linux
  1. Section I. Introduction and configuration of Storage Foundation
    1. Introducing Storage Foundation
      1. About Storage Foundation
        1.  
          About Veritas Replicator Option
      2.  
        About InfoScale Operations Manager
      3.  
        About Services and Operations Readiness Tools (SORT)
    2. Configuring Storage Foundation
      1.  
        Configuring Storage Foundation using the installer
      2. Configuring SF manually
        1.  
          Configuring Veritas Volume Manager
        2. Configuring Veritas File System
          1.  
            Loading and unloading the file system module
      3.  
        Configuring SFDB
  2. Section II. Upgrade of Storage Foundation
    1. Planning to upgrade Storage Foundation
      1.  
        About the upgrade
      2.  
        Supported upgrade paths
      3. Preparing to upgrade SF
        1.  
          Getting ready for the upgrade
        2.  
          Creating backups
        3.  
          Determining if the root disk is encapsulated
        4. Pre-upgrade planning when VVR is configured
          1.  
            Considerations for upgrading SF to 7.4 or later on systems with an ongoing or a paused replication
          2. Planning an upgrade from the previous VVR version
            1.  
              Planning and upgrading VVR to use IPv6 as connection protocol
        5.  
          Upgrading the array support
      4.  
        Using Install Bundles to simultaneously install or upgrade full releases (base, maintenance, rolling patch), and individual patches
    2. Upgrading Storage Foundation
      1. Upgrading Storage Foundation from previous versions to 9.0
        1.  
          Upgrading Storage Foundation using the product installer
      2. Upgrading Volume Replicator
        1. Upgrading VVR without disrupting replication
          1.  
            Upgrading VVR sites with InfoScale 7.4.1 or later
          2.  
            Post-upgrade tasks for VVR sites
      3.  
        Upgrading SFDB
    3. Performing an automated SF upgrade using response files
      1.  
        Upgrading SF using response files
      2.  
        Response file variables to upgrade SF
      3.  
        Sample response file for SF upgrade
    4. Upgrading SF using YUM
      1.  
        About support for InfoScale upgrade using YUM
      2.  
        Upgrade InfoScale using YUM
    5. Performing post-upgrade tasks
      1.  
        Optional configuration steps
      2.  
        Re-joining the backup boot disk group into the current disk group
      3.  
        Reverting to the backup boot disk group after an unsuccessful upgrade
      4.  
        Recovering VVR if automatic upgrade fails
      5.  
        Resetting DAS disk names to include host name in FSS environments
      6.  
        Upgrading disk layout versions
      7.  
        Upgrading VxVM disk group versions
      8.  
        Updating variables
      9.  
        Setting the default disk group
      10.  
        Verifying the Storage Foundation upgrade
  3. Section III. Post configuration tasks
    1. Performing configuration tasks
      1.  
        Switching on Quotas
      2.  
        Enabling DMP support for native devices
      3. About configuring authentication for SFDB tools
        1.  
          Configuring vxdbd for SFDB tools authentication
  4. Section IV. Configuration and upgrade reference
    1. Appendix A. Installation scripts
      1.  
        Installation script options
      2.  
        About using the postcheck option
    2. Appendix B. Configuring the secure shell or the remote shell for communications
      1.  
        About configuring secure shell or remote shell communication modes before installing products
      2.  
        Manually configuring passwordless ssh
      3.  
        Setting up ssh and rsh connection using the installer -comsetup command
      4.  
        Setting up ssh and rsh connection using the pwdutil.pl utility
      5.  
        Restarting the ssh session
      6.  
        Enabling rsh for Linux

About support for InfoScale upgrade using YUM

InfoScale (9.0 onwards) provides an additional method to upgrade the product using the Yellowdog Updater Modified (YUM) tool. This method does not require the use of the InfoScale Common Product Installer (CPI). The YUM upgrade method is designed to accommodate minor OS version upgrades as well as application upgrades.

Consider the following requirements and limitations before you use YUM to upgrade InfoScale:

  • The YUM upgrade method is available on the RHEL platform only.

  • With InfoScale 9.0, the method supports upgrades from InfoScale 8.x to 9.x only.

    With InfoScale 9.0.2, the method supports upgrades from InfoScale 7.4.x to 9.x. Specifically, you can upgrade from the 7.4.1.3100, 7.4.1.3300 (additional patch for RHEL 8.7), and 7.4.2.5600 patches through 9.x.

  • The method supports rolling upgrades or full upgrades.

  • The method does not support rollback operations like yum history rollback and yum history undo.

  • The method is compatible with YUM and DNF commands, both. Dandified YUM (DNF) is a successor to YUM and employs a similar command structure.

  • In the pre-reboot phase, where you have run the yum update command but have not yet rebooted the node, InfoScale continues to work as the previous version. The features and functionality of the upgraded InfoScale version are not available until the node has rebooted successfully.

    The pre-reboot phase may also enforce other restrictions. For example, in InfoScale storage environments, you cannot update the VxVM tunables.

  • During the pre-reboot phase, if the following services are not running before you run the yum update command, make sure that you do not start them before the node reboots:

    • veki

    • vxfs

    • vxglmservice

    • vxgmsservice

    • vxodm

  • During the execution of the yum update command, any scheduled Secure File System (SecureFS) jobs and File Replicator (VFR) jobs are temporarily skipped. After the command completes its execution successfully, the jobs resume and run as per the configured schedule.