The following changes are introduced to the installation and upgrading of 7.0 VCS:
In 7.0, the following new products are supported:
Veritas InfoScale Foundation
Veritas InfoScale Storage
Veritas InfoScale Availability
Veritas InfoScale Enterprise
The following old products are regarded as components and are converted to new products during the upgrade:
Symantec Storage Foundation (SF)
Symantec Cluster Server (VCS)
Symantec Storage Foundation and High Availability (SFHA)
Symantec Storage Foundation Cluster File System (SFCFS)
Symantec Storage Foundation Cluster File System and High Availability (SFCFSHA)
Symantec Storage Foundation for Oracle RAC (SF Oracle RAC)
Symantec Storage Foundation for Sybase ASE CE (SFSYBASECE)
The following old products are now part of the SF component and not offered as separate components.
Symantec Dynamic Multi-Pathing (DMP) standalone
Veritas Volume Manager (VxVM)
Veritas File System (VxFS)
All packages are installed at the time of installation irrespective of the product. Also, the installation of packages is no longer categorized as recommended, minimum or all.
The installation script installer installs the packages. Component installation scripts, such as installvcs, are no longer supported.
Theinstall<prod><version> script, for example, installsf70 is no longer available under the /opt/VRTS/install/
directory after an installation or upgrade.
Installation of two products is not supported, Veritas InfoScale Enterprise will be installed to include Veritas InfoScale Storage and Veritas InfoScale Availability on all the systems.
For 7.0, the new release image file names are as follows:
Veritas_InfoScale_7.0_Solaris_SPARC.tar.gz
Veritas_InfoScale_7.0_Solaris_SPARC.iso
Veritas_InfoScale_7.0_Solaris_x86.tar.gz
Veritas_InfoScale_7.0_Solaris_x86.iso
To install the product for your platform, you can either expand the .tar.gz or .zip file or mount the .iso file. Note that the content of the .iso file and archive files are identical.
To mount the .iso file on your platform, See Mounting the ISO image.
For InfoScale Availability 7.0, on Solaris 11 x64, you can upgrade VCS 6.0.5 to InfoScale Availability 7.0. For VCS 6.0PR1, VCS 6.0.1 and VCS 6.0.3, you can upgrade to VCS 6.0.5 first and then upgrade VCS 6.0.5 to Availability 7.0.
1. Upgrade the Operating System to Sol11 U1 or Sol 11 U2.
2. Upgrade VCS 6.0PR1, VCS6.0.1 or VCS6.0.3 to VCS 6.0.5. For VCS 6.0PR1, you can use the Install Bundles to upgrade to VCS 6.0.5.
3. Upgrade VCS 6.0.5 to Availability 7.0.
For InfoScale Availability 7.0, on Solaris 11 x64, if you want to upgrade VCS 6.0.5 to InfoScale Availability 7.0, you can use full upgrade, online upgrade and live upgrade; if you want to upgrade the VCS part of SFHA6.0.5 to InfoScale Availability 7.0, you can use full upgrade and online upgrade.