ComVault Simpana Installation (cv11) on Linux (RHEL7)- Step by Step
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Gineesh Madapparambath
- Infrastructre & hardware, Utilities, Comvault
- June 17, 2018
This is a very basic article to share the cv11 installation. If any corrections/mistakes, please feel free to feedback as I am not an expert on this item.
Once you have installation package on server, unzip and find the setup file.
[root@ams-bkp-101 Unix]# ls -lrta
total 160
-rwx------. 1 root root 52 Mar 12 03:16 cvpkgseed
-rwx------. 1 root root 52 Mar 12 03:16 support
-rwx------. 1 root root 10 Mar 20 01:00 pkg.xml.description
-rwx------. 1 root root 80514 Mar 20 01:00 pkg.xml
-rwx------. 1 root root 118 Mar 20 01:00 version
-rwx------. 1 root root 132 Mar 20 01:00 silent_install
-rwx------. 1 root root 47053 Mar 20 01:00 detect
-rwx------. 1 root root 132 Mar 20 01:00 cvpkgadd
drwx------. 4 root root 110 Jun 8 05:38 linux-ppc64
drwx------. 4 root root 113 Jun 8 05:38 linux-ppc64-le
drwx------. 4 root root 109 Jun 8 05:38 linux-s390
drwx------. 4 root root 112 Jun 8 05:38 linux-s390-31
drwx------. 12 root root 279 Jun 8 05:38 linux-x86
drwx------. 12 root root 4096 Jun 8 05:39 linux-x8664
drwx------. 5 root root 120 Jun 8 05:39 sol-sparc
drwx------. 4 root root 111 Jun 8 05:39 sol-sparc-x86
drwx------. 4 root root 105 Jun 8 05:40 sol-x86
drwx------. 12 root root 4096 Jun 8 05:40 .
drwx------. 5 root root 134 Jun 8 05:40 sol-x8664
drwxr-xr-x. 3 root root 39 Jun 11 02:52 ..
Run the installer
[root@ams-bkp-101 Unix]# ./cvpkgadd
Using update installer /root/.gxsetup/cvpkgadd/newinstall:
- unzipped from /bkp/Unix/linux-x8664/LooseUpdates/Updates/linux-x8664_11.0.0B80-SP10_SP10-HotFix-2166/linux-glibc2.3-x86_64/installer/nwinstall.gz
- v1180792 15488KB gzipped at XBuildNJ11 on 18-02-09 11:56:57 by pbuilder
Preparing .. READY.
EXTRACT_DIR = /root/.gxsetup/cvpkgadd
Follow the screenshots as below
Choose the task
Choose the Items to be Installed
Choose the installation directory
Choose the log directory
Choose if you want to install software for laptop
Unix Group Assignment
Configure permission
Configure Client Host information
Configure Client information
Choose to install Agent for restore
Confirm Summary before proceed with install
Wait for installation to be finished
Configure Firewall
Configure Comserve Hostname
Configure certificate
Configure client group
Configure storage policies
Confirmation installation status
That’s all. Once installation done confirm the service status.
[root@ams-bkp-101 Unix]# simpana status
--------------------------------- Instance001 ---------------------------------
[ General ]
Version = 11(BUILD80) SP10
CommServe = ams-comserv-102.example.com
Home Directory = /opt/simpana/commvault/Base
Log Directory = /var/log/commvault/Log_Files
Core Directory = /opt/simpana/commvault
Temp Directory = /opt/simpana/commvault/Base/Temp
Platform Type = 4
Cvd Port Number = 8400
[ Package ]
1002/CVGxBase 11(BUILD80) = File System Core
1101/CVGxIDA = File System
[ Physical Machine/Cluster Groups ]
Display Name = ams-bkp-101
- Client Hostname = ams-bkp-101.example.com
- Job Results Directory = /opt/simpana/commvault/iDataAgent/jobResults
Confirm the connection from ComServer.
Gineesh Madapparambath
Gineesh Madapparambath is the founder of techbeatly. He is the co-author of The Kubernetes Bible, Second Edition and the author of Ansible for Real Life Automation. He has worked as a Systems Engineer, Automation Specialist, and content author. His primary focus is on Ansible Automation, Containerisation (OpenShift & Kubernetes), and Infrastructure as Code (Terraform). (Read more: iamgini.com)
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