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

The Sun Cluster Geographic Edition software must be installed on a cluster that is running the Solaris Operating System and the Sun Cluster software. 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 

Operating System 

  • Solaris 8, 9, or 10 (SPARC® Platform Edition)

  • Solaris 10 (x64 Platform Edition)

Sun Cluster software 

Sun Cluster 3.1, 8/05 

This version includes version 1.1 of the common agent container that supports the Sun Cluster 3.1 8/05 SunPlexTM Manager. The Sun Cluster Geographic Edition product uses the same common agent container infrastructure as the Sun Cluster SunPlex Manager.

You must use common agent container 1.1, which is located in /opt/SUNWcacao/bin. Use the /opt/SUNWcacao/bin/cacaoadm -V command to check which version of common agent container you are using.

Note –

The version of Sun Cluster software on Sun Java Enterprise System 2006Q4 does not support installation on Solaris OS 8. If you have installed Solaris OS 8, you must install the Sun Cluster software from Sun Java Enterprise System 2005Q4.

Volume management software 

  • For use with Sun StorEdgeTM Availability Suite 3.2.1 software: Solaris Volume Manager software or VERITAS Volume Manager software

  • For use with Hitachi TrueCopy software: VERITAS Volume Manager software

Note –

VERITAS Volume Manager software is not supported if you are running Sun Cluster Geographic Edition on Solaris OS x64 Platform Edition.

Data replication software 

  • Sun StorEdge Availability Suite 3.2.1 software

  • Hitachi TrueCopy RAID Manager/Solaris Version:

    • A minimum of 01–18–03/06 for x64

    • A minimum of 01–10–03/02 for SPARC

  • EMC Symmetrix Remote Data Facility SymCLI 6.0.1 and microcode 5670 software

Sun Cluster Geographic Edition 

Sun Cluster Geographic Edition 3.1 2006Q4 

Planning the Data Replication Software

A cluster that is using the 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 StorEdge Availability Suite 3.2.1 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. The 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, the software must be installed on each node of the cluster.