Symantec Veritas 5 User Manual
Veritas cluster server installation guide
Table of contents
Document Outline
- Veritas Cluster Server Installation Guide
- Technical Support
- Contents
- 1. Introducing Veritas Cluster Server
- 2. Planning to install VCS
- 3. Preparing to install VCS
- About preparing to install VCS
- Preparing to configure the clusters in secure mode
- Performing preinstallation tasks
- Obtaining VCS license keys
- Setting up the private network
- Configuring SuSE network interfaces
- Setting up inter-system communication
- Setting up shared storage
- Setting the PATH variable
- Setting the MANPATH variable
- Setting the kernel.panic tunable
- Optimizing LLT media speed settings on private NICs
- Guidelines for setting the media speed of the LLT interconnects
- Mounting the product disc
- Performing automated pre-installation check
- 4. Installing and configuring VCS
- About installing and configuring VCS
- Getting your VCS installation and configuration information ready
- About the VCS installation program
- Installing and configuring VCS 5.0 RU3
- Overview of tasks
- Starting the software installation
- Specifying systems for installation
- Licensing VCS
- Choosing VCS RPMs for installation
- Choosing to install VCS RPMs or configure VCS
- Starting the software configuration
- Specifying systems for configuration
- Configuring the basic cluster
- Configuring the cluster in secure mode
- Adding VCS users
- Configuring SMTP email notification
- Configuring SNMP trap notification
- Configuring global clusters
- Installing VCS RPMs
- Creating VCS configuration files
- Starting VCS
- Completing the installation
- About enabling LDAP authentication for clusters that run in secure mode
- Installing the Java Console
- Installing VCS Simulator
- Verifying the cluster after installation
- Verifying and updating licenses on the system
- Accessing the VCS documentation
- 5. Configuring VCS clusters for data integrity
- 6. Verifying the VCS installation
- 7. Adding and removing cluster nodes
- 8. Installing VCS on a single node
- About installing VCS on a single node
- Creating a single-node cluster using the installer program
- Creating a single-node cluster manually
- Adding a node to a single-node cluster
- Setting up a node to join the single-node cluster
- Installing and configuring Ethernet cards for private network
- Configuring the shared storage
- Bringing up the existing node
- Installing the VCS software manually when adding a node to a single node cluster
- Configuring LLT
- Configuring GAB when adding a node to a single node cluster
- Starting LLT and GAB
- Reconfiguring VCS on the existing node
- Verifying configuration on both nodes
- 9. Uninstalling VCS
- A. Advanced VCS installation topics
- Index