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Contents

Chapter 1 Preinstallation instructions

Veritas Storage Foundation product suites

General installation requirements

Centralized management considerations

Symantec product licensing

Supported Linux operating systems

Database requirements

Preinstallation instructions

Required disk space

Required memory

System disk check

Prerequisites for remote and cluster installation and uninstallation

Release Notes

Persistent network interface names on SUSE clusters

Accessing Storage Foundation commands

Accessing manual pages and documentation directories

Chapter 2 Installing the Veritas Storage Foundation software

Installation requirements

About mapping services and performance statistics for databases

About the operating system

Installing the product

Configuring Storage Foundation on a cluster

Completing the installation procedure

Verifying the Veritas Storage Foundation installation

Checking Volume Manager processes

Checking cluster operation

Veritas Enterprise Administrator (VEA)

Installing the VEA client on a Microsoft Windows system

Starting and stopping the VEA server

Using the VEA client to administer local and remote systems

Configuring Veritas Volume Manager

Enabling Intelligent Storage Provisioning (ISP)

Loading and unloading the file system module

Creating and configuring the repository database for DB2 and Oracle

Configuring Veritas Storage Foundation for DB2

Setting administrative permissions

Veritas Enterprise Administrator

Configuring Veritas Storage Foundation for Oracle

Setting administrative permissions

Veritas Enterprise Administrator

Chapter 3 Installing Veritas
Storage Foundation Basic

About Veritas Storage Foundation Basic

Storage Foundation Basic technical support

Storage Foundation Basic system requirements

Installing Veritas Storage Foundation Basic

Upgrading Veritas Storage Foundation Basic

Planning the upgrade

Uninstalling Veritas Storage Foundation Basic

Chapter 4 Upgrading Veritas Storage Foundation and Linux

Previously supported installations on Red Hat Linux

Previously supported installations on SUSE Linux

Upgrade paths

Preparing to upgrade the Veritas Storage Foundation software

Upgrading the Veritas software on a cluster

Upgrading the Veritas software on a standalone system

Upgrading the Linux kernel

Upgrading VxFS disk layout versions

When to upgrade disk layout versions

When to use vxfsconvert

When to use vxupgrade

Requirements for upgrading to disk layout version 7

Upgrading VxVM disk group versions

Upgrading to the new repository database for DB2 and Oracle

Migrating from /etc/vx/vxdba to /var/vx/vxdba for DB2 and Oracle

Upgrading the VEA client on a Windows system

Chapter 5 Uninstalling the Veritas Storage Foundation software

Dropping the repository database for DB2 and Oracle

Shutting down cluster operations

Removing rootability

Removing VxFS file systems

Moving volumes to disk partitions

Moving volumes onto disk partitions using VxVM

Uninstalling Veritas Storage Foundation packages

Removing license files (Optional)

Removing the VEA client from a Windows system

Appendix A Installation script options

Installation Script Options

Appendix B Veritas Storage Foundation install packages

Veritas Storage Foundation install packages

Appendix C Configuring the Symantec License Inventory Agent

About the Symantec License Inventory Manager

When the Symantec License Inventory Agent is installed

When the server and access points are installed

What you can do with the agent after it is installed

How to remove the agent

How to order the Symantec License Inventory Manager license and media kit