veritas volume manager installation step by step guide

Posted by: Lingeswaran R April 16, 2013 in Tutorials, VXVM, VXVM-Training This post describe about installation of VXVM on Solaris node and initialization issues with vxvm after the package installation. Unlike other packages installation,we have installer available in storage foundation bundle to minimize the complex.So no need to use pkgadd commands unless until there is an issue with the installer.Here is step by step guide for vxvm installation with putty output. Environment: Operating system:Solaris 10 Storage Foundation:6.0 you can download the veritas package bundles from Symantec website freely by just signing up in to. Download the packages from Symantec and keep the package under /var/tmp.
bash-3.00# ls -lrt drwxr-xr-x 15 root root 22 Nov 29 2011 dvd2-sol_x64 -rwx-----1 root root 924151296 Oct 3 23:50 VRTS_SF_HA_Solutions_6.0_Solaris_x64.tar bash-3.00# cd dvd2-sol_x64 bash-3.00# ls -lrt |grep installer total 95 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 5278 Nov 29 2011 installer

Note:I have removed some unnecessary output in the installation process.

bash-3.00# ./installer Logs are being written to /var/tmp/installer-201210032354IFr while installer is in progress. Storage Foundation and High Availability Solutions 6.0 Install Program Use the menu below to continue. 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 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 HA 6) Symantec VirtualStore (SVS) 7) Veritas Storage Foundation for Oracle RAC b) Back to previous menu Select a product to install: [1-7,b,q] 3 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_6.0.pdf file present on media? [y,n,q,?] y Veritas Storage Foundation 6.0 Install Program 1) Install minimal required packages - XXX MB required 2) Install recommended packages - XXXX MB required 3) Install all packages - XXXX MB required 4) Display packages to be installed for each option Select the packages to be installed on all systems? [1-4,q,?] (2) Enter the Solaris x64 system names separated by spaces: [q,?] node1 Veritas Storage Foundation and High Availability 6.0 Install Program node1 Logs are being written to /var/tmp/installer-201210032354IFr while installer is in progress Verifying systems: 100% Estimated time remaining: (mm:ss) 0:00 8 of 8 Checking system communication..........................Done Checking release compatibility.........................Done Checking installed product ............................Done Checking prerequisite patches and packages.............Done Checking platform version .............................Done Checking file system free space .......................Done Checking product licensing ............................Done Performing product prechecks ..........................Done System verification checks completed Press [Enter] to continue: 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) Checking 1) 2) b) system licensing SF Standard HA SF Enterprise HA Back to previous menu

Select product mode to license: [1-2,b,q,?] (1) Would you like to enable replication? [y,n,q] (n) That's all about the storage foundation installation. Just reboot the system to use VXVM. bash-3.00# /usr/sbin/shutdown -y -i6 -g0

Troubleshooting vxvm initialization issue After the system reboot,you may get below error messages while executing the commands.
bash-3.00# vxdctl VxVM vxdctl ERROR bash-3.00# vxdisk VxVM vxdisk ERROR enable V-5-1-1589 enable failed: Volboot file not loaded list V-5-1-684 IPC failure: Configuration daemon is not accessible.

To fix the above errors,

bash-3.00# vxconfigd bash-3.00# vxdctl init bash-3.00# vxdctl enable bash-3.00# vxdisk -e list DEVICE TYPE DISK GROUP STATUS disk_0 auto:ZFS ZFS

OS_NATIVE_NAME c1t0d0s2

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Now you can see that init command created volboot for SF.
bash-3.00# cat /etc/vx/volboot volboot 3.1 0.1 110 hostid node1 hostguid {b6208f08-0d8c-11e2-8046-000c2985ec00}.