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Sun Cluster Geographic Edition Installation Guide

Planning Required Software

This section helps you to adapt the configuration of your Sun Cluster software for the installation of Sun Cluster Geographic Edition software. This section also helps you to plan the installation of your data replication software.

Sun Cluster Geographic Edition software must be installed on a cluster that is running the Solaris Operating System and the Sun Cluster software. You can install Sun Cluster Geographic Edition software at the same time that you install Sun Cluster software or at any time afterwards. The Sun Cluster Geographic Edition software configuration is identical to the Sun Cluster software configuration.

Required Software

The following table lists the required software.

Table 1–1 Required Software

Software 

Version 

Minimum Operating System version

  • Solaris 9 9/05 or Solaris 10 11/06 (SPARC® Platform Edition).

  • Solaris 10 11/06 (x64 Platform Edition).

Sun Cluster software

Sun Cluster 3.2 

This version includes version 2 of the common agent container that supports the Sun Cluster 3.2 SunTM Cluster Manager. The Sun Cluster Geographic Edition product uses the same common agent container infrastructure as Sun Cluster Manager.

You must use common agent container 2, which is located in the /usr/sbin directory. Use the /usr/sbin/cacaoadm -V command to check which version of common agent container you are using.

Volume management software 

  • For use with Solaris Volume Manager software:

    • Sun StorageTek Availability Suite software.

  • SPARC: For use with VERITAS Volume Manager software:

    • Sun StorageTek Availability Suite software.

    • Hitachi TrueCopy software.

    • EMC Symmetrix Remote Data Facility software.

Data replication software

  • Sun availability suite software, either Sun StorageTek Availability Suite 4 software on the Solaris 10 OS, or Sun StorEdge Availability Suite 3.2.1 software on the Solaris 9 OS

  • Hitachi TrueCopy RAID Manager/Solaris Version 01–18–03/03 or compatible.

  • EMC Symmetrix Remote Data Facility SymCLI 6.0.1 and microcode 5671 software.

Sun Cluster Geographic Edition 

Sun Cluster Geographic Edition 3.2 software 

Planning the Data Replication Software

A cluster that is using Sun Cluster Geographic Edition software with a data replication product is subject to the standard configuration rules of a cluster that is running the data replication product with Sun Cluster software. Partner clusters must have compatible software configurations to support data replication between the clusters.

The Sun Cluster Geographic Edition product supports the following data replication products:

The Sun StorageTek Availability Suite software is a host-based replication method. This method consists of software installed on a host that controls replication from one server to a secondary server.

The Hitachi TrueCopy and EMC Symmetrix Remote Data Facility replication use a storage-based method. These methods use replication that is built into the storage hardware.

Sun Cluster Geographic Edition software supports Oracle Real Application Clusters with Hitachi TrueCopy software.

If you use Hitachi TrueCopy RAID Manager software or EMC Symmetrix Remote Data Facility software, you must install the software on each node of the cluster.