18Installation overview
Configuring secure shell (ssh) or remote shell before installing products
Only users with superuser (root) privileges can install, upgrade, and initialize
Veritas Storage Foundation.
Review the preinstallation requirements and system requirements. Install the operating system before installing the Veritas software.
The product documentation is available at the following location:
http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index.jsp
Use the swinstall command to install the products.
To install the bundle, enter the following command:
#swinstall
If patches to the
The system must be in a quiescent state before adding patches.
See the product Release Notes for last minute information on recommended patches.
You must obtain new licenses to use all of the features in the Veritas Storage Foundation software. Any Veritas licenses for the previous releases that are currently installed allow you to use only a limited subset of these features.
For remote installation, or installation on multiple systems, set up remsh or ssh.
See “Configuring secure shell (ssh) or remote shell before installing products ” on page 18.
Mount the Veritas software disc, or download and uncompress the Storage
Foundation software.
See “Mounting a software disc ” on page 24.
See “Downloading the Storage Foundation and High Availability software ” on page 24.
Configuring secure shell (ssh) or remote shell before installing products
You must establish communication between the nodes to install the Veritas software from a remote system, or install and configure a cluster. The node from which the installation utility is run must have permissions to run remsh (remote
