Symantec Veritas Storage Foundation HP-UX User manual

N18486G

Veritas Storage Foundation™

Cluster File System

Installation Guide

HP-UX

5.0

Veritas Storage Foundation Cluster File System

Installation Guide

SFCFS 5.0

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Licensing and registration

Veritas Storage Foundation Cluster File System is a licensed product. See the

Veritas Storage Foundation Cluster File System Installation Guide for license

installation instructions.

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Contents

Chapter 1 Installing and configuring the product

Hardware overview ..............................................................................................10

Shared storage ..............................................................................................11

Fibre channel switch ...................................................................................11

Cluster platforms .........................................................................................11

Software components ..........................................................................................12

Required HP-UX patches ....................................................................................15

Preinstallation ......................................................................................................17

Release Notes ................................................................................................17

Product licensing .........................................................................................17

Setting PATH and MANPATH environment variables ..........................18

Secure communication ................................................................................18

Veritas Enterprise Administrator .............................................................19

Prerequisites .........................................................................................................19

Installing the product .........................................................................................20

Configuring the Components .............................................................................23

Using the log files ................................................................................................25

Installation log file .......................................................................................25

Response file .................................................................................................25

Summary file ................................................................................................25

Verifying the configuration files .......................................................................26

Low Latency Transport configuration files .............................................26

Checking Low Latency Transport operation ...........................................27

Group Membership and Atomic Broadcast configuration files ............29

Checking Group Membership and Atomic Broadcast operation ..........29

Checking cluster operation ........................................................................30

Verifying agent configuration ...........................................................................32

Synchronizing time on Cluster File Systems ...................................................32

Configuring VCS ...................................................................................................32

main.cf file ....................................................................................................33

SFCFS HA Only .............................................................................................34

VCS application failover services ......................................................................34

Chapter 2 Upgrading the product

Preparing to upgrade the product ..................................................................... 36

Planning the upgrade .................................................................................. 36

Upgrade paths .............................................................................................. 36

Upgrade Overview ............................................................................................... 38

Phased upgrade ............................................................................................ 38

Full upgrade .................................................................................................. 38

Upgrading from 3.5 to 5.0 .................................................................................. 39

Phased upgrade ............................................................................................ 39

Full upgrade .................................................................................................. 42

Upgrading from 4.1 to 5.0 .................................................................................. 45

Phased upgrade ............................................................................................ 45

Full upgrade .................................................................................................. 48

Upgrading the disk layout versions .................................................................. 50

Chapter 3 Adding and removing a node

Adding a node to a cluster .................................................................................. 54

Configuring SFCFS and CVM agents on the new node .................................. 56

Removing a node from a cluster ........................................................................ 57

Chapter 4 Uninstalling the product

Appendix A Troubleshooting and recovery

Installation issues ................................................................................................ 63

Incorrect permissions for root on remote system .................................. 63

Resource temporarily unavailable ............................................................ 64

Inaccessible system ..................................................................................... 64

Storage Foundation Cluster File System problems ........................................ 64

Unmount failures ........................................................................................ 65

Mount failures .............................................................................................. 65

Command failures ........................................................................................ 66

Performance issues ..................................................................................... 66

High availability issues ............................................................................... 67

Chapter 1

Installing and configuring

the product

This chapter describes how to install the Veritas Storage Foundation Cluster

File System (SFCFS). SFCFS requires several Veritas software packages to

configure a cluster and to provide messaging services. These packages include

the Veritas Cluster Server (VCS) to monitor systems and application services,

Veritas Low Latency Transport (LLT) and Veritas Group Membership and

Atomic Broadcast (GAB) for messaging and cluster membership, the Veritas

Volume Manager (VxVM) to create the shared volumes necessary for cluster file

systems, and the Veritas File System (VxFS) package.

Topics covered in this chapter include:

■Hardware overview

■Software components

■Preinstallation

■Prerequisites

■Installing the product

■Using the log files

■Verifying the configuration files

■Verifying agent configuration

■Synchronizing time on Cluster File Systems

■Configuring VCS

■VCS application failover services

10 Installing and configuring the product

Hardware overview

VxFS cluster functionality runs optimally on a Fibre Channel fabric. Fibre

Channel technology provides the fastest, most reliable, and highest bandwidth

connectivity currently available. By employing Fibre Channel technology, SFCFS

can be used in conjunction with the latest Veritas Storage Area Network (SAN)

applications to provide a complete data storage and retrieval solution.

The figure below shows the configuration of a cluster file system on a Fibre

Channel fabric with a disk array.

Figure 1-1 Four Node SFCFS Cluster Built on Fibre Channel Fabric

Public

Fiber Optic Private LAN

Disk Array

Fibre Channel Switch

Fiber Optic Connection

Private

Network

Public

11Installing and configuring the product

Hardware overview

Shared storage

Shared storage can be one or more shared disks or a disk array connected either

directly to the nodes of the cluster or through a Fibre Channel Switch. Nodes can

also have non-shared or local devices on a local I/O channel. It is advisable to

have /, /usr, /var and other system partitions on local devices.

Fibre channel switch

Each node in the cluster must have a Fibre Channel I/O channel to access shared

storage devices. The primary component of the Fibre Channel fabric is the Fibre

Channel switch.

Cluster platforms

There are several hardware platforms that can function as nodes in a cluster file

system cluster.

See the Storage Foundation Cluster File System Release Notes.

Install the HP-UX 11i 64-bit operating system with the September 2004 HP-UX

11i Version 2.0 or later on each node and install a Fibre Channel host bus

adapter to allow connection to the Fibre Channel switch.

Note: For a cluster to work correctly, all nodes must have the same time. If you

are not running the Network Time Protocol (NTP) daemon, make sure the time

on all the systems comprising your cluster is synchronized.

12 Installing and configuring the product

Software components

Storage Foundation for Cluster File System is the name of the Veritas Cluster

File System product and its supporting software packages. Storage Foundation

Cluster File System HA (SFCFS HA) provides support for application failover

functionality of Veritas Cluster Server (VCS) in addition to other SFCFS features.

Packages installed with SFCFS only

The software packages listed below are required for implementing cluster file

system functionality. They are available on the software disc in the depot

directory and are installed on each node in the cluster using the installer

installation script.

The following table shows the package name and contents for each package:

Package Contents

VRTSperl Veritas Perl 5.8.8 Redistribution

VRTSvlic Veritas Licensing

VRTSicsco Symantec Common Infrastructure

VRTSpbx Symantec Private Branch Exchange

VRTSsmf Symantec Service Management Framework

VRTSat Symantec Product Authentication Service

VRTSobc33 Veritas Enterprise Administrator Core Service

VRTSob Veritas Enterprise Administrator Service

VRTSobgui Veritas Enterprise Administrator

VRTSccg Veritas Enterprise Administrator Central Control Grid

VRTSmh Veritas Centralized Management for Storage Foundation -

Managed Host

VRTSaa Veritas Enterprise Administrator Action Agent

VRTSspt Veritas Software Support Tools

SYMClma Symantec License Inventory Agent

VRTSllt Veritas Low Latency Transport

VRTSgab Veritas Group Membership and Atomic Broadcast

VRTSvxfen Veritas I/O Fen cing

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