Veritas volume manager installation step by step guide

This post describes about installation of VXVM on Solaris node and initialization issues with vxvm after
the package installation. Unlike other packages installation, we have installer available in storage
foundation bundle to minimize the complex. So no need to use pkgadd commands unless until there is
an issue with the installer. Here is step by step guide for vxvm installation with putty output.

Environment:
Operating system:Solaris 10
Storage Foundation:6.0

you can download the veritas package bundles from Symantec website freely by just signing up in to.

Download the packages from Symantec and keep the package under /var/tmp.

bash-3.00# ls -lrt
drwxr-xr-x 15 root root 22 Nov 29 2011 dvd2-sol_x64
-rwx------ 1 root root 924151296 Oct 3 23:50
VRTS_SF_HA_Solutions_6.0_Solaris_x64.tar
bash-3.00# cd dvd2-sol_x64
bash-3.00# ls -lrt |grep installer
total 95
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 5278 Nov 29 2011 installer

Note:I have removed some unnecessary output in the installation process.

bash-3.00# ./installer
Logs are being written to /var/tmp/installer-201210032354IFr while installer
is in progress.
Storage Foundation and High Availability
Solutions 6.0 Install Program
Use the menu below to continue.
Task Menu:
P) Perform a Pre-Installation Check I) Install a Product
C) Configure an Installed Product G) Upgrade a Product
O) Perform a Post-Installation Check U) Uninstall a Product
L) License a Product S) Start a Product
D) View Product Descriptions X) Stop a Product
R) View Product Requirements ?) Help
Enter a Task: [P,I,C,G,O,U,L,S,D,X,R,?] I
1) Veritas Dynamic Multi-Pathing (DMP)
2) Veritas Cluster Server (VCS)
 3) Veritas Storage Foundation (SF)
4) Veritas Storage Foundation and High Availability (SFHA)
5) Veritas Storage Foundation Cluster File System HA
6) Symantec VirtualStore (SVS)
7) Veritas Storage Foundation for Oracle RAC
b) Back to previous menu
Select a product to install: [1-7,b,q] 3
Do you agree with the terms of the End User License Agreement as specified in
the
storage_foundation_high_availability/EULA/en/EULA_SFHA_Ux_6.0.pdf file
present on media? [y,n,q,?] y
Veritas Storage Foundation 6.0 Install Program
1) Install minimal required packages - XXX MB required
2) Install recommended packages - XXXX MB required
3) Install all packages - XXXX MB required
4) Display packages to be installed for each option

Select the packages to be installed on all systems? [1-4,q,?] (2)

Enter the Solaris x64 system names separated by spaces: [q,?] node1

Veritas Storage Foundation and High

Availability 6.0 Install Program
node1
Logs are being written to /var/tmp/installer-201210032354IFr while installer
is in progress
Verifying systems: 100%
Estimated time remaining: (mm:ss) 0:00
8 of 8
Checking system communication..........................Done
Checking release compatibility.........................Done
Checking installed product ............................Done
Checking prerequisite patches and packages.............Done
Checking platform version .............................Done
Checking file system free space .......................Done
Checking product licensing ............................Done
Performing product prechecks ..........................Done
System verification checks completed
Press [Enter] to continue:
 1) Enter a valid license key
2) Enable keyless licensing and complete system licensing later
How would you like to license the systems? [1-2,q] (2)

Checking system licensing

1) SF Standard HA
2) SF Enterprise HA
b) Back to previous menu

Select product mode to license: [1-2,b,q,?] (1)

Would you like to enable replication? [y,n,q] (n)

That's all about the storage foundation installation.

Just reboot the system to use VXVM.
bash-3.00# /usr/sbin/shutdown -y -i6 -g0

Troubleshooting vxvm initialization issue

After the system reboot,you may get below error messages while executing the commands.
bash-3.00# vxdctl enable
VxVM vxdctl ERROR V-5-1-1589 enable failed: Volboot file not loaded
bash-3.00# vxdisk list
VxVM vxdisk ERROR V-5-1-684 IPC failure: Configuration daemon is not
accessible.

To fix the above errors,

bash-3.00# vxconfigd
bash-3.00# vxdctl init
bash-3.00# vxdctl enable
bash-3.00# vxdisk -e list
DEVICE TYPE DISK GROUP STATUS OS_NATIVE_NAME ATTR
disk_0 auto:ZFS - - ZFS c1t0d0s2 -

Now you can see that init command created volboot for SF.

bash-3.00# cat /etc/vx/volboot

 volboot 3.1 0.1 110
hostid node1
hostguid {b6208f08-0d8c-11e2-8046-000c2985ec00}.

Check out the wonderful VXVM commands Man page.

vxassist (1)
vxconfigbackup (1)
vxconfigrestore (1)
vxdctl (1)
vxdg (1)
vxdisk (1)
vxdiskadm (1)
vxdiskconfig (1)
vxdisksetup (1)
vxdiskunsetup (1)
vxedit (1)
vxinfo (1)
vxlicinst (1)
vxlicrep (1)
vxlist (1)
vxmake (1)
vxmend (1)
vxplex (1)
vxprint (1)
vxsd (1)
vxtask (1)
vxvol (1)