Cisco Cisco ASR 5500

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ESS Administration and Reference, Release 18 ▄

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CONTENTS

About this Guide ................................................................................................. v

Conventions Used ....................................................................................................................................vi

Contacting Customer Support ................................................................................................................. vii

Additional Information ............................................................................................................................. viii

External Storage System Overview .................................................................. 9

ESS Overview ........................................................................................................................................ 10

ESS Features and Functions ............................................................................................................. 11

System Requirements ............................................................................................................................ 12

ASR 5x00/VPC System Requirements .............................................................................................. 12

ESS System Requirements ................................................................................................................ 12

ESS System Recommendations for Stand-alone Deployment...................................................... 12

ESS System Recommendations for Cluster Deployment .............................................................. 14

Veritas Cluster Installation and Management ................................................ 17

ESS Cluster Functional Description ....................................................................................................... 19

Installing Hardware ................................................................................................................................. 20

Configuring Storage Array on Solaris ..................................................................................................... 24

Configuring Storage using CAM ............................................................................................................. 32

Installing the Management Software (CAM) ...................................................................................... 32

Accessing the Storage Management GUI ..................................................................................... 36

Installing the hardware ................................................................................................................... 37

Configuring the Storage System .................................................................................................... 37

Configuring Veritas Volume Manager and Veritas Cluster ..................................................................... 43

Tuning the VxFS File System for Better Performance ........................................................................... 48

Configuring Resources for High Availability ........................................................................................... 49

Creating Disk Group for ESS ............................................................................................................. 52

Monitoring Veritas Cluster ...................................................................................................................... 54

Setup of rootdisk Encapsulation and Mirroring....................................................................................... 56

Testing Veritas Cluster ........................................................................................................................... 58

ESS Cluster Failure Handling ................................................................................................................. 60

ESS Installation and Configuration ................................................................. 61

ESS Installation Modes .......................................................................................................................... 62

Installing ESS Application in Stand-alone Mode .................................................................................... 63

Installing ESS Application in Cluster Mode ............................................................................................ 73

Uninstalling ESS Application .................................................................................................................. 85

Configuring PSMON Threshold (Optional) ............................................................................................. 86

Configuring the ESS Server ............................................................................. 89

ESS Server Configuration ...................................................................................................................... 90

Source and Destination Configuration .................................................................................................... 92

Starting and Stopping ESS ..................................................................................................................... 96

Restarting LESS ..................................................................................................................................... 97

Using Veritas Cluster Server .............................................................................................................. 97

Using serv script ............................................................................................................................... 101