Symantec VERITAS STORAGE FOUNDATION HP-UX - Manual (Page 7)

Chapter
1
Installing and configuring
the product
This chapter describes how to install the Veritas Storage Foundation Cluster
File System (SFCFS). SFCFS requires several Veritas software packages to
configure a cluster and to provide messaging services. These packages include
the Veritas Cluster Server (VCS) to monitor systems and application services,
Veritas Low Latency Transport (LLT) and Veritas Group Membership and
Atomic Broadcast (GAB) for messaging and cluster membership, the Veritas
Volume Manager (VxVM) to create the shared volumes necessary for cluster file
systems, and the Veritas File System (VxFS) package.
Topics covered in this chapter include:
■
Hardware overview
■ Software components
■
Preinstallation
■ Prerequisites
■
Installing the product
■ Using the log files
■
Verifying the configuration files
■ Verifying agent configuration
■
Synchronizing time on Cluster File Systems
■ Configuring VCS
■
VCS application failover services