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) The DMP 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.
SFHA Solutions 6.2: New VCS configuration wizards introduced on AIX, Linux, and Solaris
The Symantec Cluster Server (VCS) Cluster Configuration Wizard and Symantec High Availability Configuration Wizard are introduced on all supported AIX, Linux and, Solaris distributions in this release. The two new wizards replace the Symantec High Availability Configuration Wizard. The earlier wizard provided a combined workflow for cluster configuration and application (high availability) configuration, and was supported only on Linux. You can launch the new wizards from the Symantec High Availability view. In a VMware virtual environment, you can launch the wizards from the Symantec High Availability view in the VMware vSphere Web Client. Symantec has recently launched an add-on for Veritas Operations Manager called Symantec HA Plug-in for vSphere Web Client. The add-on lets you integrate VCS and ApplicationHA tasks with VMware GUI, while eliminating the need to install the Symantec High Availability Console. For more information on the add-on, see the following technical note. For steps to launch the VCS Cluster Configuration Wizard, see: Launching the VCS Cluster Configuration wizard (AIX, Linux, Solaris,) For steps to configure a cluster using the VCS Cluster Configuration wizard, see: Configuring a cluster by using the VCS Cluster configuration wizard (AIX, Linux, Solaris) For steps to launch the Symantec High Availability Configuration Wizard, see: Launching the Symantec High Availability Configuration wizard (AIX, Linux, Solaris) For steps to configure an application the wizard-based steps to configure the following applications for availability monitoring with VCS, see: Configuring application monitoring for generic applications (Linux, Solaris, AIX) Configuring the agent to monitor Oracle (Linux) Configuring the agent to monitor SAP (Linux) Configure the agent to monitor WebSphereMQ (Linux)Symantec Dynamic Multi-Pathing 6.2 on VMware: Documentation Available
Documentation for Symantec Dynamic Multi-Pathing 6.2 on VMware is now available at the following locations: PDF and HTML versions: SORT documentation page HCL: http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH211575 LBN: http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH226775 The Symantec Dynamic Multi-Pathing 6.2 on VMware documentation set includes the following manuals: Symantec Dynamic Multi-Pathing Release Notes Symantec Dynamic Multi-Pathing Installation Guide Symantec Dynamic Multi-Pathing Administrator's Guide For information on how to use Symantec Dynamic Multi-Pathing 6.2 on VMware with the Storage Foundation High Availability Solutions 6.2 products, see Symantec Storage Foundation and High Availability Solutions Virtualization Guide – Linux on ESXi. You can also learn about the DMP on ESXi by taking up the course at LearnCentral- DMP 6.2 for VMware. Symantec Storage Foundation and High Availability documentation for other releases and platforms can be found on the SORT website.
Sharing a SFHA/CFS filesystem between Physical and VM servers
Hello, and good afternoon to you all. For one of our cluster deployments, we've been requested to create a Cluster Shared Filesystem including 9 physical servers and 3 VMware VMs (vSphere 5.0 or 5.5, if this matters), all running RHEL6.5. The VMs would be using RDM-P and adhering to all the CFS-inside-a-VM stuff, as always. Performance and sizing issues aside, is this a supported configuration for SFCFSHA? I know using this for VCS is fully supported (and even advertised), but I can't seem to find the mention to this on CFS mounts. Thanks for the attention
detaching vmdk files on vmware vm
When the application failover happens in VMware Guest enviorments, the VCS is responsible for failing over the application to other vm/vcs node on diffrent ESX host. In a scenario where the ESX/ESXi host itself faults, the VCS agents begin to fail over the application to the failover target system that resides on another host. The VMwareDisks agent communicates with the new ESX/ESXi host and initiates a disk detach operation on the faulted virtual machine. The agent then attaches the disk to the new failover target virtual machine. In this senario, how are the stale i/o from failing over guest/ESX host avoided? Are we on the mercy of VMware to take care of it? With SCSI3 PR this was the main problem that was solved. Moreover in such senario's even a garceful online detach wouldnt have gone through. I didnt find any references on VMware discussions forums as well. My customer wants to know about it, before he can deploy the application. Thanks, Raf
SFRAC Certification with Oracle RAC in Solaris Zones
IHAC that is utilizing Oracle RAC 11 in Solaris Zones and has advised us that Oracle do not support SFRAC in this environment. If fact they claim it is incompatible. Can someone please advise where I can find: - 1) Our SFRAC Certification documentation SF 5 or 6. 2) Documentation from Oracle that advises that SFRAC is certified for the Solaris Zone platform. 3) Whitepapers/Case studies/ blogs etc. that we could reference for this environment. 4) Any other information you can provide. Many thanks Regards Brian
CFS NFS configuration
Hello team, I'm trying to configure a CFS NFS HA service, so I've executed this command on the cluster: cfsshare config -p nfs apbasedg locks /locks and then configured all the shares. The cfsnfs_locks volume was already created and mounted on the vcs, but now it's not able to mount it anymore: cfsshare display VCS WARNING V-16-1-10260 Resource does not exist: cfsnfs_locks CNFS metadata filesystem : Protocols Configured : none #RESOURCE MOUNTPOINT PROTOCOL OPTIONS scs-ESP-nfsshare_ESPgoldclient /ESP/goldclient NFS scs-ESP-nfsshare_ESPusrsaptrans /ESP/usr/sap/trans NFS scs-ESP-nfsshare_sapmntESP /sapmnt/ESP NFS scs-ESP-nfsshare_userdataESP /userdata/ESP NFS #cfsmntadm display List of mount points registered with cluster-configuration but not associated with any node : /locks # vxdisk -g apbasedg list DEVICE TYPE DISK GROUP STATUS vmdk0_10 auto:sliced apbasedg_0 apbasedg online shared this is the volume where the cfsnfs_locks volume is available v cnfs_locks fsgen ENABLED 2097152 - ACTIVE - - pl cnfs_locks-01 cnfs_locks ENABLED 2097152 - ACTIVE - - but I'm not able to mount the volume: # cfsmount /locks Error: V-35-33: cfsmount: Cluster mount /locks not associated with any node It worked at first, but now no more. Can you please help ThanksSFHA Solutions 6.1: SVS functionality moved to SFCFSHA
In the Storage Foundation and High Availability (SFHA) 6.1 release, Symantec VirtualStore (SVS) functionality moved to the Storage Foundation Cluster File System High Availability (SFCFSHA) product except for the SVS VMware vCenter and View plug-in. The SVS VMware vCenter and View plug-in has been discontinued. The svsdatastore, svsiscsiadm, and svsdbsnap SVS components are shipped with SFCFSHA. See the svsdatastore(1M) manual page: Linux Solaris See the svsiscsiadm(1M) manual page: Linux Solaris The svsdbsnap(1M) manual page is located in the following tarball file: http://go.symantec.com/sfcfsutilitiesfororacle/ See the Symantec Storage Foundation Cluster File System High Availability Administrator's Guide for more information. For information on how to upgrade from SVS to SFCFSHA 6.1, see: Upgrading Symantec VirtualStore Symantec Storage Foundation and High Availability documentation for other releases and platforms can be found on the SORT website.