Veritas Storage Foundation and High Availability Solutions 6.0.2 release does not include SFCFSHA and SFRAC products

book

Article ID: 100028492

calendar_today

Updated On:

Description

Error Message


CPI ERROR V-9-40-1087 The node has VRTScavf installed, which will have conflict with this release.
CPI ERROR V-9-40-1087 The node has VRTScavf installed, which will have conflict with this release.

Cause


SFHA 6.0.2 is specifically aimed at users running VCS with failover configurations on Linux guests in a VMware virtual environment. The SFCFSHA and SFRAC packages are therefore intentionally not included in the SFHA 6.0.2 media.
 

Note that the SFHA 6.0.2 release does not include any enhancements or bug fixes related to products other than VCS.

VCS 6.0.2 is specifically updated to include two enhancements for the Linux/VMware environment:
 

  • To support the coexistence of VCS application failover policies and VMware vMotion functionality. 
  • To introduce installation and configuration wizards for VCS and application-specific agents.

 

Resolution

If you want to deploy SFCFSHA or SFRAC products, Veritas recommends that you install SFHA 6.0.1 and consider upgrading to 6.0.3 (or a later applicable Maintenance Release)
 

Note that Veritas supports SFCFSHA in VMware environments, with the multi-writer flag.

 

Enabling the multi-write flag

 

For a detailed instruction on how to enable the multi-writer flag, see the steps in the following VMware article:

http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1034165
 

The steps given below illustrate the example Storage Foundation Cluster File System High Availability (SFCFSHA) configuration in progress.

Five VMDK files are configured and are shared by four virtual machines (VMs). These VMs constitute the four nodes of the cluster and they are powered off. Now it is time to enable the multi-writer flag for each of the VMs.

 

To enable the mult-write flag for a virtual machine

  1. On the vSphere Client, right-click on the cfs01 virtual machine. Go to Edit Settings > Options > Advanced > General > Configuration Parameters….
     
  2. Select Add Row.
     
  3. Enter scsi1:0.sharing on the Name column.
     
  4. Enter multi-writer on the Value column.
     
  5. Repeat steps 2 through 4 and enter the multi-writer value for the rest of the SCSI controllers and targets.

    For the example configuration:


    scsi1:1.sharing multi-writer

    scsi1:2.sharing multi-writer

    scsi1:3.sharing multi-writer

    scsi1:4.sharing multi-writer

     

    Once those steps are done, the VM configuration will resemble:

    disk.EnableUUID                              true

    scsi1:0.sharing                                   multi-writer

    scsi1:1.sharing                                   multi-writer

    scsi1:2.sharing                                   multi-writer

    scsi1:3.sharing                                   multi-writer

    scsi1:4.sharing                                   multi-writer

  6. Press OK to confirm.
     
  7. Repeat steps 1 to 6 for the other virtual machines (cfs02, cfs03 and cfs04 in the example configuration).
     
  8. Once all the virtual machines have been configured correctly, power them on and verify that there are no issues. Note that the disks have been added to each of the hosts.

    Example configuration for cfs01:

    # vxdisk list
    DEVICE         TYPE         DISK         GROUP         STATUS
    vmdk0_0        auto:none    -            - online      invalid
    vmdk0_1        auto:none    -            - online      invalid
    vmdk0_2        auto:none    -            - online      invalid
    vmdk0_3        auto:none    -            - online      invalid
    vmdk0_4        auto:none    -            - online      invalid
    vmdk0_5        auto:none    -            - online      invalid
     

Applies To

Virtual machines (guests) running Linux in a VMware ESX/ESXi cluster.

Issue/Introduction

Veritas™ Storage Foundation and High Availability Solutions (SFHA) 6.0.2 installation media do not include Veritas™ Storage Foundation Cluster File System High Availability (SFCFSHA) and Veritas™ Storage Foundation for Oracle RAC (SFRAC) packages.
Powered by Wolken Software