Install VCS on RHEL 5

Host name : node1.example.com

Host name : node2.example.com

OS : RHEL 5.6 64 bit

Make sure both the servers time is sync up.

Make sure host names are resolving. Edit /etc/hosts files on both the servers.

# more /etc/hosts

127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost

::1 localhost6.localdomain6 localhost6

192.168.80.21 node1.example.com node1

192.168.80.22 node2.example.com node2

Installation package has been copied on node1 /opt folder. Enable execute permission on that folder.

# chmod +x VRTS_SF_HA_Solutions_5.1_SP1_RHEL/ -R

Pre check the pre-requisite on both the servers.

# ./installer -precheck

1) Veritas Dynamic Multi-Pathing (DMP)

2) Veritas Cluster Server (VCS)

3) Veritas Storage Foundation (SF)

4) Veritas Storage Foundation and High Availability (SFHA)

5) Veritas Storage Foundation Cluster File System (SFCFS)

6) Veritas Storage Foundation Cluster File System/HA (SFCFSHA)

7) Veritas Storage Foundation for Oracle RAC (SFRAC)

8) Veritas Storage Foundation Cluster File System for Oracle RAC (SFCFS RAC)

9) Symantec VirtualStore (SVS)

10) Symantec Product Authentication Services (AT)

b) Back to previous menu

Select a product to perform pre-installation check for: [1-10,b,q] 3

Verifying systems: 100%

Estimated time remaining: 0:00 8 of 8

Checking system communication ............................... Done

Checking release compatibility .............................. Done

Checking installed product .................................. Done

Checking prerequisite patches and rpms ...................... Done

Checking platform version ................................... Done

Checking file space ......................................... Done

Performing product license checks ........................... Done

Performing product prechecks ................................ Done

Precheck report completed

System verification checks completed successfully

No issues found in prechecks

Would you like to install SF on node1 node2? [y,n,q] (n) n

installer log files, summary file, and response file are saved at:

/opt/VRTS/install/logs/installer-201401011724IFa

Now we can start the VCS installation

# ./installer node1 node2

Task Menu:

P) Perform a Pre-Installation Check I) Install a Product

C) Configure an Installed Product G) Upgrade a Product

O) Perform a Post-Installation Check U) Uninstall a Product

L) License a Product S) Start a Product

D) View Product Descriptions X) Stop a Product

R) View Product Requirements ?) Help

Enter a Task: [P,I,C,G,O,U,L,S,D,X,R,?] I ß Press “I” and enter

1) Veritas Dynamic Multi-Pathing (DMP)

2) Veritas Cluster Server (VCS)

3) Veritas Storage Foundation (SF)

4) Veritas Storage Foundation and High Availability (SFHA)

5) Veritas Storage Foundation Cluster File System (SFCFS)

6) Veritas Storage Foundation Cluster File System/HA (SFCFSHA)

7) Veritas Storage Foundation for Oracle RAC (SFRAC)

8) Veritas Storage Foundation Cluster File System for Oracle RAC (SFCFS RAC)

9) Symantec VirtualStore (SVS)

10) Symantec Product Authentication Services (AT)

b) Back to previous menu

Select a product to install: [1-10,b,q] 4 ß Press “4” and enter

Do you agree with the terms of the End User License Agreement as specified in the

storage_foundation_high_availability/EULA/en/EULA_SFHA_Ux_5.1SP1.pdf file present on media? [y,n,q,?] y ß Press “y” and enter

1) Install minimal required Veritas Storage Foundation and High Availability rpms - 378 MB required

2) Install recommended Veritas Storage Foundation and High Availability rpms - 581 MB required

3) Install all Veritas Storage Foundation and High Availability rpms - 618 MB required

4) Display rpms to be installed for each option

Select the rpms to be installed on all systems? [1-4,q,?] (2) ß Use default option

Enter the 64 bit RHEL5 system names separated by spaces: [q,?] node1 node2 ß enter servers hostname

Estimated time remaining: 0:00 8 of 8

Checking system communication ........................................................................................... Done

Checking release compatibility .......................................................................................... Done

Checking installed product .............................................................................................. Done

Checking prerequisite patches and rpms .................................................................................. Done

Checking platform version ............................................................................................... Done

Checking file space ..................................................................................................... Done

Performing product license checks ....................................................................................... Done

Performing product prechecks ............................................................................................ Done

System verification checks completed successfully

Rpm Rpm Description

VRTSvlic Veritas Licensing

VRTSperl Veritas Perl 5.10.0 Redistribution

VRTSspt Veritas Software Support Tools by Symantec

VRTSvxvm Veritas Volume Manager Binaries

VRTSaslapm Volume Manager - ASL/APM

VRTSob Veritas Enterprise Administrator Service by Symantec

VRTSsfmh Veritas Storage Foundation Managed Host by Symantec

VRTSvxfs Veritas File System

VRTSatClient Symantec Product Authentication Service Client

VRTSatServer Symantec Product Authentication Service

VRTSllt Veritas Low Latency Transport

VRTSgab Veritas Group Membership and Atomic Broadcast

VRTSvxfen Veritas I/O Fencing by Symantec

VRTSamf Veritas Asynchronous Monitoring Framework by Symantec

VRTSvcs Veritas Cluster Server

VRTSvcsag Veritas Cluster Server Bundled Agents by Symantec

VRTSvcsdr Veritas Cluster Server Disk Reservation Modules

VRTSvcsea Veritas Cluster Server Enterprise Agents by Symantec

VRTSdbed Veritas Storage Foundation Databases

VRTSodm Veritas Oracle Disk Manager

Press [Enter] to continue: ß Enter here

Installing SFHA: 100%

Estimated time remaining: 0:00 23 of 23

Performing SFHA preinstall tasks ........................................................................................ Done

Installing VRTSvlic rpm ................................................................................................. Done

Installing VRTSperl rpm ................................................................................................. Done

Installing VRTSspt rpm .................................................................................................. Done

Installing VRTSvxvm rpm ................................................................................................. Done

Installing VRTSaslapm rpm ............................................................................................... Done

Installing VRTSob rpm ................................................................................................... Done

Installing VRTSvxfs rpm ................................................................................................. Done

Installing VRTSatClient rpm ............................................................................................. Done

Installing VRTSatServer rpm ............................................................................................. Done

Installing VRTSllt rpm .................................................................................................. Done

Installing VRTSgab rpm .................................................................................................. Done

Installing VRTSvxfen rpm ................................................................................................ Done

Installing VRTSamf rpm .................................................................................................. Done

Installing VRTSvcs rpm .................................................................................................. Done

Installing VRTSvcsag rpm ................................................................................................ Done

Installing VRTSvcsdr rpm ................................................................................................ Done

Installing VRTSvcsea rpm ................................................................................................ Done

Installing VRTSdbed rpm ................................................................................................. Done

Installing VRTSodm rpm .................................................................................................. Done

Installing VRTSsfmh rpm ................................................................................................. Done

Performing SFHA postinstall tasks ....................................................................................... Done

Copying installer libraries and scripts ................................................................................. Done

Veritas Storage Foundation and High Availability Install completed successfully

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) ß choose the default and press enter

1) SF Standard HA

2) SF Enterprise HA

b) Back to previous menu

Select product mode to license: [1-2,b,q,?] (1) ß choose the default and press enter

Would you like to enable the Veritas Volume Replicator? [y,n,q] (n) ß press “n” and enter

Registering SFHA license

Would you like to configure SFHA on node1 node2? [y,n,q] (n) y ß type “y” and enter

I/O Fencing

It needs to be determined at this time if you plan to configure I/O Fencing in enabled or disabled mode, as well as help in

determining the number of network interconnects (NICS) required on your systems. If you configure I/O Fencing in enabled mode,

only a single NIC is required, though at least two are recommended.

A split brain can occur if servers within the cluster become unable to communicate for any number of reasons. If I/O Fencing is

not enabled, you run the risk of data corruption should a split brain occur. Therefore, to avoid data corruption due to split

brain in CFS environments, I/O Fencing has to be enabled.

If you do not enable I/O Fencing, you do so at your own risk

See the Administrator's Guide for more information on I/O Fencing

Do you want to configure I/O Fencing in enabled mode? [y,n,q,?] (y) n ß type “n” and press enter

To configure VCS, answer the set of questions on the next screen.

When [b] is presented after a question, 'b' may be entered to go back to the first question of the configuration set.

When [?] is presented after a question, '?' may be entered for help or additional information about the question.

Following each set of questions, the information you have entered will be presented for confirmation. To repeat the set of

questions and correct any previous errors, enter 'n' at the confirmation prompt.

No configuration changes are made to the systems until all configuration questions are completed and confirmed.

Press [Enter] to continue:

A unique cluster name

A unique cluster ID number between 0-65535

Two or more NICs per system used for heartbeat links

One or more heartbeat links are configured as private links

You can configure one heartbeat link as a low-priority link

All systems are being configured to create one cluster.

Enter the unique cluster name: [q,?] mycluster ß type the cluster name and press enter

Enter a unique cluster ID number between 0-65535: [b,q,?] 1 ß type the cluster ID and press enter

1) Configure heartbeat links using LLT over Ethernet

2) Configure heartbeat links using LLT over UDP

3) Automatically detect configuration for LLT over Ethernet

b) Back to previous menu

How would you like to configure heartbeat links? [1-3,b,q,?] (1) ß press “1” and enter

Discovering NICs on node1 ................................................................ Discovered eth0 eth1 eth2 eth3 sit0

Enter the NIC for the first private heartbeat link on node1: [b,q,?] (sit0) eth1

eth1 has an IP address configured on it. It could be a public NIC on node1.

Are you sure you want to use eth1 for the first private heartbeat link? [y,n,q,b,?] (n) y

Would you like to configure a second private heartbeat link? [y,n,q,b,?] (y) y

Enter the NIC for the second private heartbeat link on node1: [b,q,?] (sit0) eth2

eth2 has an IP address configured on it. It could be a public NIC on node1.

Are you sure you want to use eth2 for the second private heartbeat link? [y,n,q,b,?] (n) y

Would you like to configure a third private heartbeat link? [y,n,q,b,?] (n)

Do you want to configure an additional low-priority heartbeat link? [y,n,q,b,?] (n) y

Enter the NIC for the low-priority heartbeat link on node1: [b,q,?] (eth0)

Are you using the same NICs for private heartbeat links on all systems? [y,n,q,b,?] (y) y

Cluster information verification:

Cluster Name: mycluster

Cluster ID Number: 1

Private Heartbeat NICs for node1:

link1=eth1

link2=eth2

Low-Priority Heartbeat NIC for node1:

link-lowpri1=eth0

Private Heartbeat NICs for node2:

link1=eth1

link2=eth2

Low-Priority Heartbeat NIC for node2:

link-lowpri1=eth0

Is this information correct? [y,n,q,b,?] (y) ß type “y” and press enter

Virtual IP can be specified in RemoteGroup resource, and can be used to connect to the cluster using Java GUI

The following data is required to configure the Virtual IP of the Cluster:

A public NIC used by each system in the cluster

A Virtual IP address and netmask

Do you want to configure the Virtual IP? [y,n,q,?] (n) y

Active NIC devices discovered on node1: eth0 eth1 eth2 eth3

Enter the NIC for Virtual IP of the Cluster to use on node1: [b,q,?] (eth0)

Is eth0 to be the public NIC used by all systems? [y,n,q,b,?] (y) y

Enter the Virtual IP address for the Cluster: [b,q,?] 192.168.80.100

Enter the NetMask for IP 192.168.80.100: [b,q,?] (255.255.255.0)

Cluster Virtual IP verification:

NIC: eth0

IP: 192.168.80.100

NetMask: 255.255.255.0

Is this information correct? [y,n,q] (y) ß type “y” and press enter

Would you like to configure VCS to use Symantec Security Services? [y,n,q] (n)

The following information is required to add VCS users:

A user name

A password for the user

User privileges (Administrator, Operator, or Guest)

Do you want to set the username and/or password for the Admin user

(default username = 'admin', password='password')? [y,n,q] (n) ß type “n” and press enter

VCS User verification:

User: admin Privilege: Administrators

Passwords are not displayed

Is this information correct? [y,n,q] (y) ß type “y” and press enter

The following information is required to configure SMTP notification:

The domain-based hostname of the SMTP server

The email address of each SMTP recipient

A minimum severity level of messages to send to each recipient

Do you want to configure SMTP notification? [y,n,q,?] (n) ß type “n” and press enter

The following information is required to configure SNMP notification:

System names of SNMP consoles to receive VCS trap messages

SNMP trap daemon port numbers for each console

A minimum severity level of messages to send to each console

Do you want to configure SNMP notification? [y,n,q,?] (n) ß type “n” and press enter

All SFHA processes that are currently running must be stopped

Do you want to stop SFHA processes now? [y,n,q,?] (y) ß type “y” and press enter

Stopping SFHA: 100%

Estimated time remaining: 0:00 9 of 9

Performing SFHA prestop tasks ........................................................................................... Done

Stopping had ............................................................................................................ Done

Stopping hashadow ....................................................................................................... Done

Stopping CmdServer ...................................................................................................... Done

Stopping amf ............................................................................................................ Done

Stopping vxfen .......................................................................................................... Done

Stopping gab ............................................................................................................ Done

Stopping llt ............................................................................................................ Done

Stopping vxatd .......................................................................................................... Done

Veritas Storage Foundation and High Availability Shutdown completed successfully

Starting SFHA: 100%

Estimated time remaining: 0:00 18 of 18

Performing SFHA configuration ........................................................................................... Done

Starting vxdmp .......................................................................................................... Done

Starting vxio ........................................................................................................... Done

Starting vxspec ......................................................................................................... Done

Starting vxconfigd ...................................................................................................... Done

Starting vxesd .......................................................................................................... Done

Starting vxrelocd ....................................................................................................... Done

Starting vxconfigbackupd ................................................................................................ Done

Starting vxportal ....................................................................................................... Done

Starting fdd ............................................................................................................ Done

Starting llt ............................................................................................................ Done

Starting gab ............................................................................................................ Done

Starting had ............................................................................................................ Done

Starting hashadow ....................................................................................................... Done

Starting CmdServer ...................................................................................................... Done

Starting vxdbd .......................................................................................................... Done

Starting vxodm .......................................................................................................... Done

Performing SFHA poststart tasks ......................................................................................... Done

Veritas Storage Foundation and High Availability Startup completed successfully

Would you like to send the information about this installation to Symantec to help improve installation in the future? [y,n,q,?]

(y) n ß type “n” and press enter

installer log files, summary file, and response file are saved at:

/opt/VRTS/install/logs/installer-201401020035dhA

Run the following command to check the veritas cluster status

# /opt/VRTSvcs/bin/hastatus -sum

-- SYSTEM STATE

-- System State Frozen

A node1 RUNNING 0

A node2 RUNNING 0

-- GROUP STATE

-- Group System Probed AutoDisabled State

B ClusterService node1 Y N ONLINE

B ClusterService node2 Y N OFFLINE

# ps -ef | grep -i had

root 10417 1 0 00:45 ? 00:00:00 /opt/VRTSvcs/bin/had

root 10426 1 0 00:45 ? 00:00:00 /opt/VRTSvcs/bin/hashadow

# ip a | grep -i 192.168.80.100 --color

inet 192.168.80.100/24 scope global secondary eth0:0

-----Veritas cluster suite installation completed successfully---

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