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Sun Cluster Software Installation Guide for Solaris OS

Installation Requirements

The following table lists SunPlex Installer installation requirements for these additional software products.

Table 2–3 Requirements to Use SunPlex Installer to Install Software

Software Package 

Installation Requirements 

Solstice DiskSuite or Solaris Volume Manager 

A partition that uses /sds as the mount–point name. The partition must be at least 20 Mbytes in size.

Sun Cluster HA for NFS data service 

  • At least two shared disks, of the same size, that are connected to the same set of nodes.

  • Solstice DiskSuite software installed, or Solaris Volume Manager software configured, by SunPlex Installer.

  • A logical hostname for use by Sun Cluster HA for NFS. The logical hostname must have a valid IP address that is accessible by all cluster nodes. The IP address must be on the same subnet as any of the adapters in the IP Network Multipathing group that hosts the logical address.

  • A test IP address for each node of the cluster. SunPlex Installer uses these test IP addresses to create Internet Protocol (IP) Network Multipathing (IP Network Multipathing) groups for use by Sun Cluster HA for NFS.

Sun Cluster HA for Apache scalable data service 

  • At least two shared disks of the same size that are connected to the same set of nodes.

  • Solstice DiskSuite software installed, or Solaris Volume Manager software configured, by SunPlex Installer.

  • A shared address for use by Sun Cluster HA for Apache. The shared address must have a valid IP address that is accessible by all cluster nodes. The IP address must be on the same subnet as any of the adapters in the IP Network Multipathing group that hosts the logical address.

  • A test IP address for each node of the cluster. SunPlex Installer uses these test IP addresses to create Internet Protocol (IP) Network Multipathing (IP Network Multipathing) groups for use by Sun Cluster HA for Apache.