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Sun QFS and Sun Storage Archive Manager 5.3 Installation Guide
June 2012
Sun QFS and Sun Storage Archive Manager 5.3 Installation Guide
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Preface
1. About Sun QFS and Sun Storage Archive Manager
What Is Sun QFS?
What Is Sun Storage Archive Manager (SAM-QFS)?
What You Can Do With SAM-QFS
What Is the SAM-QFS Manager?
SAM-Remote
High Availability File System Configuration Using Oracle Solaris Cluster (HA-QFS)
High Availability Archiving Configuration Using Oracle Solaris Cluster (HA-SAM)
About Shared File Systems and the Linux Client
2. Planning Your Environment
What Features Do You Need?
Archiving Overview
Design Considerations for Archiving
Design Considerations for File Systems Without Archiving
Reference Architecture
Best Practices
3. Preparing for Installation
Hardware and Software Requirements
Operating System Requirements
How to Verify the Environment
Installing Oracle Solaris OS Patches
Software Host Requirements
Verifying Shared File System Requirements
Metadata Server Requirement
Operating System and Hardware Requirements
Sun Storage Archive Manager and Sun QFS Release Levels
Verifying Third-Party Compatibilities
SAM-QFS Manager Requirements
Determining Disk Space Requirements
Planning Your File System and Verifying Disk Cache
Estimating Disk Cache Requirements
Preparing Hardware for Archiving
Verifying Archive Media
How to Attach Removable Media Devices
Creating a List of Devices
Obtaining the Release Files
Software Licensing
How to Obtain the Software
Setting Up the Network Management Station
4. Release Package Contents, Directories, and Files
Release Package Contents
Directories and Files Created
Directories Created at Installation
Files Created at Installation
Fault Notification Files
Site Files
Modified System Files
5. Installing Sun QFS and SAM-QFS
Before You Begin
SAM-QFS Installation Overview Task Map
Sun QFS Installation Overview Task Map
Installing the Software Packages
How to Add the Packages
How to Mount an ISO Image For Adding Packages
How to Set Up Access to the Commands and Man Pages
Downgrading to a Previous Release Using the
backto
Command
6. Installing and Configuring SAM-QFS Manager
About SAM-QFS Manager
Installing SAM-QFS Manager
Verifying SAM-QFS Manager Requirements
Minimum Hardware Requirements for SAM-QFS Manager
Browser Requirements for SAM-QFS Manager
Operating System Requirements
Web Software Requirements
How to Install SAM-QFS Manager
How to Mount an ISO Image for Installing the SAM-QFS Manager
How to Access the SAM-QFS Manager
How to Set the SAM-QFS Manager Session Timeout
Configuring SAM-QFS Manager
Adding Additional Servers
How to Add an Additional Server for SAM-QFS Manager Access
Adding and Modifying User Accounts
How to Manually Create Additional SAM-QFS User Accounts
How to Manually Grant Privileges to SAM-QFS Users
How to Create a SAM-QFS Manager Account to be Used by Multiple Users
7. Configuring the File System Environment
Configuring the File System Environment
Identifying Peripherals Using the
/var/adm/messages
File
Manually Creating the Master Configuration File
How to Verify the Master Configuration File
How to Create the Master Configuration File (SAM-QFS Manager)
8. Setting Up Mount Parameters and Initializing the File System Environment
Updating the
/etc/vfstab
File and Creating the Mount Point
How to Update the
/etc/vfstab
File and Create the Mount Point
How to Create and Edit the
samfs.cmd
File (SAM-QFS Manager)
Manually Creating and Editing the
samfs.cmd
File
Initializing the Environment and the File System
How to Mount the File System (SAM-QFS Manager)
How to Mount the File System (Command Line)
9. Backing Up SAM-QFS Data and Files
Backing Up File System Data
Setting Up Dump Files
Running the
qfsdump
Command Automatically Using
cron
Running the
qfsdump
Command Manually From the Command Line
Creating Archive Recovery Points
Creating and Scheduling Recovery Point (
samfsdump
Command) From the Command Line
Creating a Recovery Point (
samfsdump
Command) From the Command Line
Scheduling the
samfsdump
Command Using
cron
Creating and Scheduling Recovery Points Using SAM-QFS Manager
How to Create a Recovery Point Using SAM-QFS Manager
How to Schedule Automatic Recovery Points Using SAM-QFS Manager
Backing Up Configuration Files
10. Upgrading Sun QFS and SAM-QFS
Upgrade Overview Task Map
Preparing for an Upgrade
Upgrade Considerations
Support for Rolling Upgrades in a Shared Environment
How to Perform Rolling Upgrades in a Shared Environment
Preserving Information for an Upgrade
Backing Up Existing File Systems
Backing Up Using the Version 1, Version 2, and Version 2A Superblocks
How to Back Up the File System (Sun QFS Configurations)
How to Back Up a File System (SAM-QFS Configurations)
Example Of Using the
samfsdump
Command
Stopping Archiving Operations
How to Stop Archiving Operations From SAM-QFS Manager
How to Stop Archiving Operations From the Command Line
Unsharing File Systems
Unmounting File Systems
How To Unmount a File System Using SAM-QFS Manager
How to Unmount a File System From the Command Line
How to Unmount by Editing the
/etc/vfstab
File
Removing Existing Software
How to Remove Existing Software
Adding the Upgrade Packages
How to Add the Packages
Upgrading SAM-QFS Manager
Restoring the File System
How to Verify the
mcf
File
How to Modify the
/etc/vfstab
File
How to Reinitialize and Restore the File System
How to Check the File System
Mounting the File System
How to Mount the File System Using SAM-QFS Manager
Recompiling API-Dependent Applications
Upgrading Hardware
General Prerequisites
Switching Between SPARC and AMD Platforms
Configuring EFI Labels for Shared x64 and SPARC Volumes
How to Convert Disk Labels From the Default SMI VTOC8 to EFI
Upgrading the Oracle Solaris OS
How to Upgrade the Oracle Solaris OS in a Sun QFS Environment
11. Uninstalling the SAM-QFS Manager Software
Uninstalling the SAM-QFS Manager
How to Uninstall the SAM-QFS Manager Software
12. Installing Sun QFS and Sun Storage Archive Manager -- Quick Start
Before You Begin
Installing Packages
How to Install Packages
Enabling SAM-QFS Logging
How to Enable SAM-QFS Logging
Enabling SAM-QFS Daemon Tracing
How to Enable SAM-QFS Daemon Tracing
Setting Up the Root Path Variable
Setting Up a Stand-Alone QFS
How to Set Up Stand-Alone QFS
Setting Up a Shared QFS
How to Set Up Shared QFS
Enabling the Network Time Protocol Daemon (Shared QFS)
How to Enable the Network Time Protocol Daemon (Shared QFS)
Setting Up the Network File System
How to Set Up the Network File System
Installing the SAM-QFS Manager
How to Install the SAM-QFS Manager
Commands to Monitor a Shared File System