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Managing Veritas InfoScale Foundation Storage VxFS

This is not a detailed list of every Veritas command. These are the commands you would use on a daily basis when managing Veritas storage. This will not be a static cheat sheet it will grow as I discover more useful commands. As a warning the vxlist command has a habit of being broken when…


InfoScale Upgrade to InfoScale 7.4.x

Description The write-up details the process of upgrading VERITAS InfoScale. Prerequisites The node where you are running the install should be able to ssh into each node as root using ssh keys.


Add VERITAS InfoScale MAN Pages to MANPATH

VERITAS does not add its MAN pages to your MANPATH. Below are the step by step instructions to add all of the VERITAS InfoScale man pages to your MANPATH. 1 – Change directory to /etc/profile.d/.

2 – Create a new file called vcs_infoscale_man_pages.sh using an text editor.

3 – Add the line below…


Install InfoScale 7.3.1 on RHEL 7.5

This write up details how to install VERITAS InfoScale 7.3.1 on RHEL 7.5. If you have attempted to install VERITAS InfoScale 7.3.1 on RHEL 7.5 using CPI you would have received the error below.

This is due to VERITAS InfoScale 7.3.1 needing to be patch to VERITAS InfoScale 7.3.1.100 to support RHEL 7.5. Below…


How to Manually Seed a VERITAS Cluster

What is Manually Seeding If you have a VERITAS cluster where all of the nodes are down except one you will need to manually seed the cluster to have it start on an single node. Manually seeding the cluster allows you to bring the cluster online on an single node.