veritas volume manager installation step by step guide

Download the packages from Symantec and keep the package under /var/tmp.

bash-3.00# ls -lrt
drwxr-xr-x  15 root   root    22 Nov 29  2011 dvd2-sol_x64
-rwx------   1 root   root    924151296 Oct  3 23:50 VRTS_SF_HA_Solutions_6.0_Solaris_x64.tar
bash-3.00# cd dvd2-sol_x64
bash-3.00# ls -lrt |grep installer
total 95
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root        5278 Nov 29  2011 installer

Note:I have removed some unnecessary output in the installation process.

bash-3.00# ./installer
Logs are being written to /var/tmp/installer-201210032354IFr while installer is in progress.
    Storage Foundation and High Availability 
       Solutions 6.0 Install Program
Use the menu below to continue.
Task Menu:
P) Perform a Pre-Installation Check      I) Install a Product
C) Configure an Installed Product        G) Upgrade a Product
O) Perform a Post-Installation Check     U) Uninstall a Product
L) License a Product                     S) Start a Product
D) View Product Descriptions             X) Stop a Product
R) View Product Requirements             ?) Help
Enter a Task: [P,I,C,G,O,U,L,S,D,X,R,?] I
     1)  Veritas Dynamic Multi-Pathing (DMP)
     2)  Veritas Cluster Server (VCS)
     3)  Veritas Storage Foundation (SF)
     4)  Veritas Storage Foundation and High Availability (SFHA)
     5)  Veritas Storage Foundation Cluster File System HA 
     6)  Symantec VirtualStore (SVS)
     7)  Veritas Storage Foundation for Oracle RAC 
     b)  Back to previous menu
Select a product to install: [1-7,b,q] 3
Do you agree with the terms of the End User License Agreement as specified in the
storage_foundation_high_availability/EULA/en/EULA_SFHA_Ux_6.0.pdf file present on media? [y,n,q,?] y
      Veritas Storage Foundation 6.0 Install Program
     1)  Install minimal required packages - XXX MB required
     2)  Install recommended packages - XXXX MB required
     3)  Install all packages - XXXX MB required
     4)  Display packages to be installed for each option

Select the packages to be installed on all systems? [1-4,q,?] (2)
Enter the Solaris x64 system names separated by spaces: [q,?] node1

        Veritas Storage Foundation and High 
          Availability 6.0 Install Program
                       node1
Logs are being written to /var/tmp/installer-201210032354IFr while installer is in progress
    Verifying systems: 100%
    Estimated time remaining: (mm:ss) 0:00                                                          8 of 8
    Checking system communication..........................Done
    Checking release compatibility.........................Done
    Checking installed product ............................Done
    Checking prerequisite patches and packages.............Done
    Checking platform version .............................Done
    Checking file system free space .......................Done
    Checking product licensing ............................Done
    Performing product prechecks ..........................Done
System verification checks completed
Press [Enter] to continue:

 1)  Enter a valid license key
 2)  Enable keyless licensing and complete system licensing later
How would you like to license the systems? [1-2,q] (2)

Checking system licensing
     1)  SF Standard HA
     2)  SF Enterprise HA
     b)  Back to previous menu

Select product mode to license: [1-2,b,q,?] (1)


Would you like to enable replication? [y,n,q] (n)

That's all about the storage foundation installation.
Just reboot the system to use VXVM.
bash-3.00# /usr/sbin/shutdown -y -i6 -g0

bash-3.00# vxdctl enable
VxVM vxdctl ERROR V-5-1-1589 enable failed: Volboot file not loaded
bash-3.00# vxdisk list
VxVM vxdisk ERROR V-5-1-684 IPC failure: Configuration daemon is not accessible.

To fix the above errors,

bash-3.00# vxconfigd
bash-3.00# vxdctl init
bash-3.00# vxdctl enable
bash-3.00# vxdisk -e list
DEVICE   TYPE   DISK   GROUP STATUS  OS_NATIVE_NAME   ATTR
disk_0 auto:ZFS  -     -      ZFS     c1t0d0s2         -

Now you can see that init command created volboot for SF.

bash-3.00# cat /etc/vx/volboot
volboot 3.1 0.1 110
hostid node1
hostguid {b6208f08-0d8c-11e2-8046-000c2985ec00}.

Thank you for reading this article.Please leave a comment if you have any doubt.I will get back to you.