InfoScale 7.0 for Windows: Transitioning from one InfoScale product to another InfoScale product
To transition to an InfoScale product, on the system where you already have an InfoScale product installed, run the product installer for the InfoScale product you want to transition to. The following table lists the supported paths to transition from one InfoScale product to another InfoScale product: For information about installing an InfoScale product, see: Veritas InfoScale™ Installation and Upgrade Guide InfoScale documentation for other platforms can be found on the SORT website.InfoScale 7.0 for Windows: Upgrading VCS Java Console and VEA to 7.0
If you had installed Storage Foundation for Windows (SFW) or Veritas Cluster Server (VCS) clients only (VCS Java Console or VEA), you cannot upgrade them to 7.0 version. To install the latest version of clients-only, uninstall its earlier version and then install the current version. For information about installing the clients only, see: Veritas InfoScale™ Installation and Upgrade Guide InfoScale documentation for other platforms can be found on the SORT website.InfoScale 7.0 for Windows: Installing InfoScale Availability on a machine where InfoScale Storage is already installed
To use Storage Foundation for Windows (SFW) for storage management and Veritas Cluster Server for Windows (VCSW) for high availability, you can install InfoScale Availability on a machine where InfoScale Storage is already installed or vice-a-versa. The co-existence of VCSW and SFW however has the following limitations: If Keyless licensing type is selected during the product installation, checks performed to monitor the number of days of product installation are based on the SFW component. As a result, if you do not enter a valid license key or do not add the host as a managed host within 60 days of InfoScale Storage installation, a non-compliance error is logged every 4 hrs in the Event Viewer. After InfoScale Storage is installed, the VCS configuration wizards discover only SFW dynamic disks for configuring storage resources in an application service group. If you have already configured NetApp or native disk (LDM) resources, you can continue to use them. However, you cannot add or remove any of these resources using the VCS configuration wizards. Then, you must manually modify the service group to add or delete the NetApp or LDM resources. For information about installing the InfoScale products, see: Veritas InfoScale™ Installation and Upgrade Guide InfoScale documentation for other platforms can be found on the SORT website.InfoScale 7.0 for Windows: Performing a roll back to a previous installation after upgrading to InfoScale 7.0
The Symantec Storage Foundation and High Availability products included support to perform a rollback from the upgraded version to the original version. The rollback process allowed you to revert back to its earlier installation and restore the configuration and tunable parameters. The InfoScale products (7.0 release for Symantec Storage Foundation and High Availability products with new packaging) do not support the rollback process. If you upgrade to an InfoScale product, you cannot revert back to its earlier installation and restore the configuration. In this case, you must uninstall the InfoScale product and then install the previous version of the product. For information about uninstalling an InfoScale product, see: Veritas InfoScale™ Installation and Upgrade Guide InfoScale documentation for other platforms can be found on the SORT website.InfoScale 7.0 for Windows: About the product correlation between Symantec Storage Foundation and High Availability Solutions and Veritas InfoScale Family
In the 7.0 release, the following products from Symantec Storage Foundation and High Availability Solutions are rebranded and repackaged under the Veritas InfoScale family. Storage Foundation (SFW) Storage Foundation and High Availability Solutions (SFW HA) Cluster Server (VCS) Dynamic Multi-Pathing for Windows (DMPW) The Veritas InfoScale family consists of the following products: Veritas InfoScale Foundation Veritas InfoScale Availability Veritas InfoScale Storage Veritas InfoScale Enterprise The following table depicts the existing-to-new product correlation: Existing product New product SFW Basic Veritas InfoScale Foundation VCS Veritas InfoScale Availability SFW Veritas InfoScale Storage SFW HA Veritas InfoScale Enterprise As a result of repackaging the following changes apply: DMPW and VBS are not available as separate products. The following product options are not available as user-selectable options during the product installation. All these features are now available by default with the concerned InfoScale product. FlashSnap Replace Disk Management Snap-in with SFW VEA GUI Volume Replicator (VVR) Fast failover Global Cluster Option For information about the simplified product packaging, changes to the user-selectable product installation options, and the components that are offered in each InfoScale product, see: Veritas InfoScale™ What's New Guide InfoScale documentation for other platforms can be found on the SORT website.InfoScale 7.0 for Windows: Installing InfoScale client-only components
The InfoScale products have server and client components; VCS Cluster Manager (Java Console) and Veritas Enterprise Administrator (VEA). The client components are installed by default when you install the server components. To install the client components only, you must download the client-specific .msi file from SORT and then follow the install program instructions to complete the installation. Note: Client components cannot be installed on server core systems. For information about installing the InfoScale client components, see: Veritas InfoScale™ Installation and Upgrade Guide InfoScale documentation for other platforms can be found on the SORT website.InfoScale 7.0 for Windows: Installing InfoScale products using the VMware vSphere Client integrated option
In a VMware environment, after you install Symantec High Availability Console, Veritas InfoScale integrates with VMware vSphere Client and provides the following user interfaces: Install Guest Components option in the context menu Symantec High Availability Tab at a virtual machine level Symantec High Availability Dashboard at a VMware cluster or at a data center level These user interfaces can be used to perform the following InfoScale tasks through VMware vSphere Client: Manage InfoScale licenses Perform application monitoring administrative tasks Configure application monitoring in VMware SRM environment Until the 6.1 release of Symantec Storage Foundation and High Availability Solutions, you could install ApplicationHA and Veritas Cluster Server for Windows through VMware vSphere Client. With the 7.0 release, InfoScale product installation in a VMware environment using the VMware vSphere Client-integrated option is deprecated. The Install Guest Components option continues to appear in the context menu. However, you cannot install the InfoScale products using this option. The installation wizard does not list the InfoScale products on the Product Selection page. To install the InfoScale products use the product installer or the CLI. For information about installing the InfoScale products, see: Veritas InfoScale™ Installation and Upgrade Guide InfoScale documentation for other platforms can be found on the SORT website.InfoScale 7.0 for Windows: Installing InfoScale products in physical and virtual environments
To install the InfoScale products use the product installer or the CLI. Use these methods to install the products in virtual as well as physical environments. In case of virtual environments, whether VMware or Hyper-V, the product installer or the CLI does not differ. The product installer lets you install the product on multiple systems at a time. Whereas, using the CLI you can install the product on a single system at a time. For information about installing the InfoScale products, see: Veritas InfoScale™ Installation and Upgrade Guide The installation guide is common across Windows platform. Virtualization platform-specific installation guides are not applicable on Windows. InfoScale documentation for other platforms can be found on the SORT website.
Veritas InfoScale 7.0 (Linux and Windows): Changes in Dynamic Multi-Pathing for VMware
With the introduction of the Veritas InfoScale 7.0 product family, Dynamic Multi-Pathing (DMP) for VMware is now included as a component in the Veritas InfoScale Foundation, Storage, and Enterprise products. The license for this component is included as a part of the InfoScale license on both Linux and Windows. You can either use the Linux license or the Windows license to enable DMP functionality on the ESXi hypervisor. The DMP for VMware component consists of the following: vSphere offline DMP bundle — DMP components installed on the ESXi hypervisor vSphere UI plug-in — Installed on a Windows physical machine or on a virtual machine and serves as an interface between ESXi and vCenter Remote CLI package — Optional command-line interface to manage ESXi hosts from a Linux system or a Windows system The components can be installed using the command line or the VMware vSphere Update Manager. To install the Dynamic Multi-Pathing for VMware component on ESXi hosts, use one of the following: Veritas_InfoScale_Dynamic_Multi-Pathing_7.0_VMware.zip Veritas_InfoScale_Dynamic_Multi-Pathing_7.0_VMware.iso For more information on installing the DMP for VMware component, refer to the Dynamic Multi-Pathing 7.0 Installation Guide - VMware ESXi. From this release onwards: 1) DMP for VMware supports SanDisk (FusionIO) PCIe attached SSD cards. 2)TheDMP plug-in for the VMware vCenter web client: Displays I/O rate as a line graph. Displays the mapping of LUNs and VMDKs used by a virtual machine. Has a SmartPool tab for a virtual machine for easy configuration of SmartPool assigned to it. No longer requires ESXi login credentials in the Manage Device Support page. For more information about the features and enhancements, refer to the Dynamic Multi-Pathing 7.0 Administrator's Guide - VMware ESXi.