< Previous  | TOC | Index | Next  >

Installing the Veritas Storage Foundation software

Topics covered in this chapter include:

• Installation requirements
• Installing the product
• Verifying the Veritas Storage Foundation installation
• Veritas Enterprise Administrator (VEA)
• Configuring Veritas Volume Manager
• Loading and unloading the file system module
• Creating and configuring the repository database for DB2 and Oracle

This chapter provides an overview of the installation tasks for Veritas Storage Foundation, Veritas Storage Foundation for DB2, and Veritas Storage Foundation for Oracle and describes how to install the packages for the first time. If you already have an earlier version of any of the Veritas products installed, see Upgrading Veritas Storage Foundation and Linux.

  Note   Only users with superuser privileges can install and initialize Storage Foundation.