Veritas Storage Foundation™ and High Availability Solutions Getting Started Guide
Veritas Storage Foundation™ and High Availability Solutions Getting Started Guide
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Getting started
Whats included
Installation
Getting help
Documentation
Getting started
The Veritas Storage Foundation and High Availability Solutions for Windows
products are used for enterprise data management and protection, high availability,
and disaster recovery. This guide provides an overview of the products in this
release and the contents of the product software disks. It also explains how to
obtain a product license
8 Getting started with Storage Foundation and High Availability Solutions for Windows
Whats included
This release of Veritas Storage Foundation and High Availability Solutions for
Windows includes the following products:
These products can be used with the Veritas Volume Replicator option in a disaster
recovery environment.
Whats included
The Veritas Storage Foundation and High Availability Solutions media kit includes
multiple software disks. The disk label describes the contents of each disk.
Table 1-1 describes the media kit contents.
Table 1-1
Disk
Contents
Veritas Storage Foundation 32-bit and 64-bit versions of SFW and SFW HA. Use this disk
and High Availability
for new installations or for upgrades from pre-5.1 versions of
Solutions 5.1 Service Pack the product.
1 for Windows
Veritas Cluster Server 5.1
Service Pack 1 for
Windows 1
Veritas Storage
Foundation and High
Availability Solutions 5.1
Service Pack 1 for
Windows
Minor Upgrade
Getting started with Storage Foundation and High Availability Solutions for Windows
About Storage Foundation and High Availability Solutions
Note: If you wish to assess products and options for which you have not purchased
a license, an evaluation license key is embedded in the product. To use this key
click Next at the license key entry screen of the product installer. This license key
is valid for a limited evaluation period only.
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About Storage Foundation and High Availability Solutions
Local area high availability at a single site for new or existing application
installations
Planning tools
Veritas Storage Foundation and High Availability Solutions for Windows offers
several planning tools.
Configuration Checker
The Configuration Checker enables you to verify your configuration before you
install SFW HA or before you perform disaster recovery in a Microsoft Exchange
or SQL Server environment.
Getting started with Storage Foundation and High Availability Solutions for Windows
Symantec Licensing Portal
Version Upgrades: Register your upgrade notification and receive new version
keys.
LKWeb (for use by Symantec business partners): Create and register licenses
prior to resale of Symantec products.
For additional help with Symantec product licenses, email questions to:
[email protected].
See the Storage Foundation and High Availability Solutions Installation and Upgrade
Guide for more information about product licensing.
Installation
Use the product installer to install the software. An SFW HA installation includes
Veritas Storage Foundation for Windows and Veritas Cluster Server. You may
select other applicable options during the installation.
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Whats new in this version
If you wish to assess products and options for which you have not purchased a
license, an evaluation license key is embedded in the product. To use this key click
Next at the license key entry screen of the product installer. This license key is
valid for a limited evaluation period only.
Review the system requirements before installing or upgrading the product.
See the Storage Foundation and High Availability Solutions Installation and Upgrade
Guide.
Installation options
During the product installation you choose an installation option, either
Complete/Custom or Administrative Console:
Installation methods
You can choose to install the product using either the wizard-driven product
installer or silently from the command line. The product installer allows you to
install to multiple systems simultaneously. A command line installation is limited
to one local or remote system at a time.
Getting help
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email notification service. Use the Knowledge Base Search feature to access
additional product information, including current and past releases of product
documentation.
Documentation
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Installed with the product and available from the Start menu.
On the software disks in the \Docs directory and, in some cases, at the root of
the disk directory structure. To view a document, explore the software disk
and double-click the file name.
Note: The Release Notes file is located on the product disk. Symantec recommends
that you copy the document from the disk to the directory %Program
Files%\Veritas\Docs\ENU so they are available on your system for reference.
Updated Release Notes can be found at
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