Ready – Symantec Veritas 5 User Manual

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Getting your VCS installation and configuration
information ready

The VCS installation and configuration program prompts you for information
about certain VCS components.

When you perform the installation, prepare the following information:

To install VCS RPMs you need:

Example: galaxy, nebula

The system names where you
plan to install VCS

Depending on the type of installation, keys include:

A valid site license key

A valid demo license key

A valid license key for VCS global clusters

See

“Obtaining VCS license keys”

on page 39.

The required license keys

Install only the required RPMs if you do not want to
configure any optional components or features.

The default option is to install all RPMs.

See

“Optional VCS RPMs”

on page 54.

To decide whether to install:

the required VCS RPMs

all the VCS RPMs

To configure Veritas Cluster Server you need:

The cluster name must begin with a letter of the
alphabet. The cluster name can contain only the
characters "a" through "z", "A" through "Z", the numbers
"0" through "9", the hyphen "-", and the underscore "_".

Example: vcs_cluster27

A name for the cluster

A number in the range of 0-65535. Within the site that
contains the cluster, each cluster must have a unique
ID.

Example: 7

A unique ID number for the
cluster

A network interface card that is not part of any
aggregated interface, or an aggregated interface.

Do not use the network interface card that is used for
the public network, which is typically eth0.

Example: eth1, eth2

The device names of the NICs
that the private networks use
among systems

Installing and configuring VCS
Getting your VCS installation and configuration information ready

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