Legal Names for Sun Cluster Geographic Edition Entities

Sun Cluster Geographic Edition entity names consist of the following:

• Host names

• Cluster names, which must follow the naming requirements for host names

• Partnership names

• Protection group names

• Custom heartbeat names

All names must comply with the following rules:

• Must start with a letter

• Must not exceed 255 characters

• Can contain the following:

  • Upper and lowercase letters

  • Digits

  • Dashes (-), except as the last character of a host name or cluster name

  • Underscores (_), except in a host name or cluster name

For more information about host name requirements, see RFC 1123 at http://www.rfcs.org/.