Installing VCS Packages

The VCS packages include required packages and optional packages. Install the required packages first. All packages are installed in the /opt directory.

When selecting optional packages, please note the following:

• The package for VCS manual pages (VRTSvcsmn) and VCS documentation (VRTSvcsdc) are recommended; it is not necessary to install the documentation package on all nodes.
• The I/O fencing package (VCSvxfen) can be used only with shared disks that support SCSI-III Persistent Group Reservations (PGR). See Setting Up I/O Fencing for the procedures to test shared storage for SCSI-III Persistent Group Reservations and for implementing I/O fencing. See the VERITAS Cluster Server User's Guide for a conceptual description of I/O fencing.
• The VCS configuration wizard (VRTScscw) package includes wizards for the installation and/or configuration of VERITAS products for which VCS configuration is required.

1. On one system, install the required packages. It is important to install them in the following order:
     # swinstall -s 'pwd' VRTSat
     # swinstall -s 'pwd' VRTSvlic
     # swinstall -s 'pwd' VRTSperl
     # swinstall -s 'pwd' VRTSllt
     # swinstall -s 'pwd' VRTSgab
     # swinstall -s 'pwd' VRTSvcs
     # swinstall -s 'pwd' VRTSvcsag
     # swinstall -s 'pwd' VRTSvcsmg
     # swinstall -s 'pwd' VRTSjre
     # swinstall -s 'pwd' VRTScutil
     # swinstall -s 'pwd' VRTScscw
     # swinstall -s 'pwd' VRTSweb
     # swinstall -s 'pwd' VRTSvcsw
2. Install the optional packages, skipping those you do not choose. It is important to install them in the following order:
     # swinstall -s 'pwd' VRTSvcsdc
     # swinstall -s 'pwd' VRTSvcsmn
     # swinstall -s 'pwd' VRTSvxfen
     # swinstall -s 'pwd' VRTScssim
     # swinstall -s 'pwd' VRTScscm
3. Perform step 1 and step 2 on each of the other cluster systems.