Sun Cluster 3.1 - 3.2 Hardware Administration Manual for Solaris OS

Preface

The Sun Cluster 3.1 - 3.2 Hardware Administration Manual for Solaris OScdpwd provides a variety of information about how to install and administer basic Sun^TM Cluster hardware components. Topics covered in this book include how to install and configure terminal concentrators, the cluster interconnect, public network hardware, campus clustering, and dynamic reconfiguration.

Use this manual with any version of Sun Cluster 3.1 or 3.2 software. Unless otherwise noted, procedures are the same for all Sun Cluster 3.1 and 3.2 versions.

Note –

This Sun Cluster release supports systems that use the SPARC and x86 families of processor architectures: UltraSPARC, SPARC64, and AMD64. In this document, the label x86 refers to systems that use the AMD64 family of processor architectures. The information in this document pertains to both platforms unless otherwise specified in a special chapter, section, note, bulleted item, figure, table, or example.

In this document, references to Oracle Real Application Clusters also apply to Oracle Parallel Server unless otherwise stated.

See the Revision History for a list of changes to this manual.

This book does not include information about configuring servers in a Sun Cluster environment nor does it include specific storage device procedures.

Who Should Use This Book

This book is for Sun representatives who are performing the initial installation of a Sun Cluster configuration and for system administrators who are responsible for maintaining the system.

This document is intended for experienced system administrators with extensive knowledge of Sun software and hardware. Do not use this document as a planning or a pre-sales guide. You should have already determined your system requirements and purchased the appropriate equipment and software before reading this document.

How This Book Is Organized

The following chapters contain information about hardware used in a Sun Cluster environment.

Chapter 1, Introduction to Sun Cluster Geographic Edition Hardware provides an overview of installing and administering Sun Cluster hardware.

Chapter 2, Installing and Configuring the Terminal Concentrator describes how to install and configure a terminal concentrator.

Chapter 3, Installing Cluster Interconnect Hardware and Configuring VLANs describes how to install cluster interconnect hardware and configure VLANs.

Chapter 4, Maintaining Cluster Interconnect Hardware describes how to maintain cluster interconnect hardware.

Chapter 5, Installing and Maintaining Public Network Hardware describes how to install and maintain the public network hardware.

Chapter 6, Maintaining Platform Hardware describes how to perform cluster-specific procedures on your cluster node hardware.

Chapter 7, Campus Clustering With Sun Cluster Software provides guidelines and diagrams about how to configure a campus cluster.

Chapter 8, Verifying Sun Cluster Hardware Redundancy describes how to verify cluster redundancy.

Appendix A, Sun Cluster Geographic Edition Object-Oriented Commands introduces the object-oriented command set.

Revision History

The following table lists the information that has been revised or added since the initial release of this documentation. The table also lists the revision date for these changes.

Table P–1 Sun Cluster 3.1 - 3.2 Hardware Administration Manual for Solaris OS


Revision Date	New Information
April 2007	Specifications-Based Campus Clusters, which are described in Chapter 7, Campus Clustering With Sun Cluster Software, now support a wider range of distance configurations. These clusters support such configurations by requiring compliance to a latency and error rate, rather than to a rigid set of distances and components.
July 2007	Specifications-Based Campus Clusters, which are described in Chapter 7, Campus Clustering With Sun Cluster Software, now support an even wider range of distance configurations, including x64. These clusters support such configurations by requiring compliance to a latency and error rate, rather than to a rigid set of distances and components.
March 2008	Corrected a number of incorrect statements about InfiniBand support, jumbo frames VLANs, and cluster interconnect in Chapter 3, Installing Cluster Interconnect Hardware and Configuring VLANs and Chapter 6, Maintaining Platform Hardware.
November 2008	Updated “Interconnect: Requirements When Using Jumbo Frames” section at Requirements When Using Jumbo Frames.
January 2009	Updated links in Preface to Sun Cluster documentation.
August 2009	Added index entries for using jumbo frames on an interconnect cluster.
October 2009	Corrected the number of required transport junctions in “Configuring VLANs as Private Interconnect Networks” from two to one.
December 2009	Added that mediators are supported for three-room campus clusters to Three-Room Campus Cluster Examples and added a new section called Solaris Volume Manager Three-Mediator Support.

Documentation
Solaris Cluster 3.2
Sun Cluster 3.1

Using UNIX Commands

This document contains information about commands that are used to install, configure, or upgrade a Sun Cluster Geographic Edition configuration. This document might not contain complete information about basic UNIX® commands and procedures such as shutting down the system, booting the system, and configuring devices.

See one or more of the following sources for this information:

Online documentation for the Solaris^TM Operating System (Solaris OS)
Other software documentation that you received with your system
Solaris Operating System man pages

Getting Help

If you have problems installing or using Sun Cluster Geographic Edition, contact your service provider and provide the following information.

Your name and email address (if available)
Your company name, address, and phone number
The model number and serial number of your systems
The release number of the operating environment (for example, Solaris 10)
The release number of Sun Cluster Geographic Edition (for example, Sun Cluster Geographic Edition 3.2)

Use the following commands to gather information about your system for your service provider.

Command	Function
`prtconf -v`	Displays the size of the system memory and reports information about peripheral devices
`psrinfo -v`	Displays information about processors
`showrev -p`	Reports which patches are installed
`prtdiag -v`	Displays system diagnostic information
`/usr/cluster/bin/clnode show-rev/usr/cluster/bin/scinstall -pv`	Displays Sun Cluster Geographic Edition release and package version information

Also have available the contents of the /var/adm/messages file.

Documentation, Support, and Training

The Sun web site provides information about the following additional resources:

Typographic Conventions

The following table describes the typographic conventions that are used in this book.

Table P–3 Typographic Conventions


Typeface	Meaning	Example
`AaBbCc123`	The names of commands, files, and directories, and onscreen computer output	Edit your `.login` file. Use `ls -a` to list all files. `machine_name% you have mail.`
`AaBbCc123`	What you type, contrasted with onscreen computer output	`machine_name%` `su` `Password:`
`aabbcc123`	Placeholder: replace with a real name or value	The command to remove a file is `rm` `filename`.
AaBbCc123	Book titles, new terms, and terms to be emphasized	Read Chapter 6 in the User's Guide. A cache is a copy that is stored locally. Do not save the file. Note: Some emphasized items appear bold online.

Shell Prompts in Command Examples

The following table shows the default UNIX system prompt and superuser prompt for the C shell, Bourne shell, and Korn shell.

Table P–4 Shell Prompts


Shell	Prompt
C shell	`machine_name%`
C shell for superuser	`machine_name#`
Bourne shell and Korn shell	`$`
Bourne shell and Korn shell for superuser	`#`