Storage Foundation Installation

Download the free basic version from symantec.com :
search :
download storage foundation basic
which gives you the freeware version of the storage solution.

Version: 4.1.02.0
This version works with CentOS 4.8 (5.4 is too new !)
(Download from centos.org)

I used vmware player 3.0 to make a virtual machine with centos 4.8

Copy the tar.gz with storage foundation and unpack using
gzip -d sf*basic*
tar xvf sf*basic*

cd rhel*
cd sf*basic*
cd storage*


installsf
Answer the questions
Host : 127.0.0.1
or give the name of the system.

You can ignore the SSH connection when installing to the
same host.

Once installed you propably want to have some shared storage
available to the system.

For this I use OpenFiler virtual machine that has iSCSI target
in it. [See : OpenFiler iSCSI Target]

To access the iSCSI target using an iscsi initiator we download the utils:

yum install iscsi-initator-utils

vi /etc/initiatorname.iscsi
InitiatorName=iqn.myLinuxInitiator.here
# or change to your own prefered name
vi /etc/iscsi.conf
DiscoveryAddress=192.168.2.9
# 192.168.2.9 is my OpenFiler environment

/etc/init.d/iscsi restart



You now can use storage foundation commands.
If you want to use Veritas Enterprise Administrator you
should either have a X-Windows environment in the Virtual
Machine or you can use another computer to display the
gui.


Suppose your system 192.168.2.1 has X-Windows (mine has X-cygwin)
Login as root to 192.168.2.1 and use:
xhost +
(This allows use of the X-Windows environment to your vm)


On the centos machine use:


export DISPLAY=192.168.2.1:0
cd /opt/VRTS/bin
./vea


To restart VEA services on machine:
/opt/VRTS/bin/vxsvcctrl restart