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Installing Storage Foundation 

Use the Veritas product installer or the installsfrac program. 

On each node, the interactive installer installs packages for: 

• Veritas Cluster Server (VCS)
• Veritas Volume Manager (VxVM)
• Veritas File System (VxFS)
• Veritas High Availability Agent for Oracle
• Veritas Volume Replicator (VVR)
• Other Storage Foundation modules

Performing system checks to configure Storage Foundation 

Use the Veritas product installer or installsfrac -configure option of installsfrac program. 

The installer guides you to perform basic system checks. 

Configuring Storage Foundation stack 

Use the Veritas product installer or installsfrac -configure option of installsfrac program. 

After you perform basic system checks, you can configure the Storage Foundation components: 

• VCS
• CVM, Veritas Volume Manager enabled for clusters
• CFS, Veritas File System enabled for clusters
• VVR (optional)

The installer also starts the Storage Foundation processes. 

Setting up I/O fencing 

Manually configure I/O fencing feature for Storage Foundation: 

• Verify whether shared storage can support I/O fencing using vxfentsthdw script.
• Set up coordinator disks for the I/O fencing feature into a disk group.
• Set the UseFence=SCSI3 attribute in the configuration file.
• Restart the processes.

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