Installation of Storage Foundation for Windows High Availability 5.1 SP2

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Installation of Storage Foundation for Windows High Availability 5.1 SP2

Daniel SchnackPrinciple Technical Support Engineer

Learning Objectives• Pre-installation Tasks– Prerequisites

– Configuration Checker

• Installation– Licensing

– Options

– System Selection

– Installation Summary

• Troubleshooting

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3Pre-installation Tasks

Pre-installation Tasks

Hardware Requirements, OS Requirements, Configuration Checker

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Requirements Specification

Memory 1 GB of RAM

32 Bit Processors 800-megahertz (MHz) Pentium III-compatible or faster processor1GHz or faster processor recommended

64 Bit Processors 1GHz AMD Opteron, AMD Athlon 64, Intel Xeon with Intel EM64Tsupport, Intel Pentium IV with EM64T support processor or faster

IA64 Processors 1GHz Itanium or faster processor1GHz Dual-Core Intel Itanium 2 or faster processor

Disk Space (complete install) 1950 MBFor 32 Bit Systems

2370 MBFor 64 Bit Systems

Network Interface Cards (NICs) At least two NICs are required, however, Symantec recommends three NICs. Two NICs for private communication and one NIC for public access

Shared Disks SCSI, Fibre Channel, iSCSI host bus adapters (HBAs), or iSCSI Initiator supported NICs to access shared storage.

Hardware Requirements

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Windows Server 2003 x86: Web Edition (SP2 required) Windows Server 2003 x86, x64, IA64: Standard Edition, Enterprise Edition,

Datacenter Edition (SP2 required for all editions) Windows Server 2003 R2 x86, x64: Standard Edition, Enterprise Edition,

Datacenter Edition (SP2 required for all editions) Windows Server 2003 R2 x86, x64: Small Business Server (SP2 required) Windows Storage Server 2003 R2 x86, x64: Standard Edition, Enterprise

Edition (SP2 required for these editions) Windows Unified Data Storage Server 2003 x86, x64: Standard Edition,

Enterprise Edition (SP2 required for these editions) Windows 2008 Server Core Windows 2008 R2 Server Core Windows 2008 SP2 Server Core Windows Server 2008 x86, x64: Standard Edition, Enterprise Edition,

Datacenter Edition, Web Edition, Small Business Sever (SP1 or SP2 required for all editions)

Software Requirements

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Configuration Checker• A utility that will

analyze the system and report if configuration changes need to be made prior to installation.

• After downloading, execute ConfigChecker.bat to launch the utility.

• For more information on the Configuration Checker, click on SORT.

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Installation

Walking through the installation

Launch installation by selecting Complete/Custom.

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Enter your license key or use the evaluation key

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Enter permanent license keys or use the 2-month evaluation key to continue installation.

License Keys can be updated after installation to replace evaluation keys or to introduce new options into an existing installation.

An evaluation key should only be used in a lab environment.

Select the options to install

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Storage Foundation Options include the optional features for Storage Foundation for Windows.

Global Cluster Option allows two or more clusters to be linked together and provides the ability to fail over applications between geographically distributed clusters.

Database Agents control SQL and Oracle databases.

Application Agents control Exchange 2003 and higher and SharePoint 2010.

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Select the options to install (continued)

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Hardware Replication Agents manage supported hardware replication devices.

EV Cluster Setup Wizard puts EV under cluster control

Symantec Trusted Certificates allows for Driver Signing during installations.

Replace Disk Management Snap-In replaced Windows Logical Disk Manager to the Veritas Enterprise Administrator GUI.

Client Components are the GUI tools to manage the storage and the cluster. This includes the VEA and the Cluster Manager – Java Console.

Select the systems for installation

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Review the Pre-install Report and begin installation

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A dialog box may be presented as a reminder that the Symantec Product Installer will reboot the systems.

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The Symantec Product Installer begins the installation.

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The Symantec Product Installer completes installation.

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Scroll through the Post-install Report for details on all packages installed on all systems.

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After installation is successful, select Next to view the Post-installation summary.

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Reboot the local system to complete the installation.

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Troubleshooting

Troubleshooting

Troubleshooting

If the installation of Storage Foundation for Windows experiences a failure, you should perform the following steps:1. Write down the exact error that is displayed.

2. Search Symantec’s Knowledge Base located on the Symantec Enterprise Support website at http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=home.

3. If no KB articles to address the issue are found, Search or post the issue on Symantec’s Support Forums.

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Troubleshooting continued..4. If you are unable to find any KB

articles to address the issue, clear the error, exit the installation, and run the Symantec VxExplorer log gathering utility to capture all of the necessary files including the Symantec Product Installer logs. For more information about VxExplorer, please refer to KB article http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH83192.

5. After VxExplorer has completed, please contact Technical Support for further assistance. There are a number of different ways that you can contact Technical Support . Please refer to Symantec Enterprise Support website at http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=home. Troubleshooting 2

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Daniel Schnack