Contents

Technical Support ...............................................................................................

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Chapter 1

Product overview ..................................................................

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About Veritas Storage Foundation and High Availability

 

 

products ................................................................................

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Component software ......................................................................

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Symantec Product Authentication Service ....................................

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Storage Foundation Management Server ....................................

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Veritas Storage Foundation ............................................................

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About this product .................................................................

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Veritas Storage Foundation for Oracle .............................................

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About Veritas Storage Foundation for Oracle® .............................

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Storage Foundation Cluster File System ...........................................

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About Veritas Storage Foundation Cluster File System ..................

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Storage Foundation for Oracle RAC .................................................

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About Veritas Storage Foundation for Oracle® RAC ......................

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Chapter 2

How the discs are organized .............................................

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Contents of the software discs in the media kit .................................

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Contents of the product disc .....................................................

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Disc directory structure ................................................................

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Chapter 3

Installation overview ..........................................................

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Documentation references, before you install ....................................

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Performing preinstallation checks and configuration .........................

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Configuring secure shell (ssh) or remote shell before installing

 

 

products ..............................................................................

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Configuring and enabling ssh ..................................................

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Enabling remsh .....................................................................

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Mounting a software disc ..............................................................

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Downloading the Storage Foundation and High Availability software

 

 

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Copying and unzipping the downloaded release ................................

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