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Installing the VEA client on a Microsoft Windows system

The VEA client package (\windows\VRTSobgui.msi) for Windows systems may be used to access servers running Veritas Storage Foundation software and the VEA service on Linux. This package can be installed on Windows NT®, Windows XP, Windows 2003, Windows 2000, Windows ME, Windows 98 and Windows 95 machines.

To install and run the VEA client, your system must conform to the following specifications:

• Windows Installer 2.0 or later must be present. For information about upgrading Windows Installer, visit http://www.microsoft.com. For Windows NT 4.0, it is also recommended that you use Windows NT 4.0 Service Pack 6.
• Java Runtime Environment (JRE) version 1.5.0_01.
• 100MHz Pentium with 256MB memory or higher specification.
• 22MB available disk space.

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    Note   Microsoft Installer is required to install the VRTSobgui.msi package. You can get this product from the Microsoft website if it is not already installed on your system.

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Before you install VEA on a Windows system, you must uninstall any existing Veritas Volume Manager Storage Administrator (VMSA) packages and remove the old setup.exe from that machine. Only one VEA package can be installed on a Windows machine at a time.

 To install the VEA GUI on a Windows system

1. Log in as administrator.
2. Insert the disc containing the Veritas software in the DVD-ROM drive
3. Using Windows Explorer or a DOS Command window, change directory to \windows\VRTSobgui.msi and execute the VRTSobgui.msi program with Windows Installer.
4. Follow the instructions presented by the VRTSobgui.msi program.
5. After installation is complete, ensure environment changes made during installation take effect as follows:
   • For Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows 2003 or Windows XP, log out and then log back in.
   • For Windows ME, Windows 98 or Windows 95, restart the computer.