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Oracle Solaris Cluster Software Installation Guide     Oracle Solaris Cluster 4.0
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Preface

1.  Planning the Oracle Solaris Cluster Configuration

Finding Oracle Solaris Cluster Installation Tasks

Planning the Oracle Solaris OS

Guidelines for Selecting Your Oracle Solaris Installation Method

Oracle Solaris OS Feature Restrictions

System Disk Partitions

SPARC: Guidelines for Oracle VM Server for SPARC in a Cluster

Planning the Oracle Solaris Cluster Environment

Licensing

Software Updates

Public-Network IP Addresses

Console-Access Devices

Public Network Configuration

Quorum Server Configuration

NFS Guidelines

Service Restrictions

Network Time Protocol (NTP)

Oracle Solaris Cluster Configurable Components

Global-Cluster Name

Global-Cluster Voting-Node Names and Node IDs

Private Network Configuration

Private Hostnames

Cluster Interconnect

Transport Adapters

Transport Switches

Global Fencing

Quorum Devices

Zone Clusters

Global-Cluster Requirements and Guidelines

Zone-Cluster Requirements and Guidelines

Planning Global Devices, Device Groups, and Cluster File Systems

Planning Global Devices

Planning Device Groups

Planning Cluster File Systems

Choosing Mount Options for UFS Cluster File Systems

Mount Information for Cluster File Systems

Planning Volume Management

Guidelines for Volume Manager Software

Guidelines for Solaris Volume Manager Software

UFS Cluster File System Logging

Mirroring Guidelines

Guidelines for Mirroring Multihost Disks

Guidelines for Mirroring the ZFS Root Pool

2.  Installing Software on Global-Cluster Nodes

3.  Establishing the Global Cluster

4.  Configuring Solaris Volume Manager Software

5.  Creating a Cluster File System

6.  Creating Zone Clusters

7.  Uninstalling Software From the Cluster

Index

Planning Volume Management

This section provides the following guidelines for planning volume management of your cluster configuration:

Oracle Solaris Cluster software uses volume manager software to group disks into device groups that can then be administered as one unit. You must install Solaris Volume Manager software on all voting nodes of the cluster.

See your volume manager documentation and Configuring Solaris Volume Manager Software for instructions about how to install and configure the volume manager software. For more information about the use of volume management in a cluster configuration, see Multihost Devices in Oracle Solaris Cluster Concepts Guide and Device Groups in Oracle Solaris Cluster Concepts Guide.

Guidelines for Volume Manager Software

Consider the following general guidelines when you configure your disks with volume manager software:

See your volume manager software documentation for disk layout recommendations and any additional restrictions.

Guidelines for Solaris Volume Manager Software

Consider the following points when you plan Solaris Volume Manager configurations:

UFS Cluster File System Logging

Logging is required for UFS cluster file systems. Oracle Solaris Cluster software supports Solaris UFS logging. See the mount_ufs(1M) man page for more information.

Mirroring Guidelines

This section provides the following guidelines for planning the mirroring of your cluster configuration:

Guidelines for Mirroring Multihost Disks

Mirroring all multihost disks in an Oracle Solaris Cluster configuration enables the configuration to tolerate single-device failures. Oracle Solaris Cluster software requires that you mirror all multihost disks across expansion units. You do not need to use software mirroring if the storage device provides hardware RAID as well as redundant paths to devices.

Consider the following points when you mirror multihost disks:

For more information about multihost disks, see Multihost Devices in Oracle Solaris Cluster Concepts Guide.

Guidelines for Mirroring the ZFS Root Pool

Oracle Solaris ZFS is the default root file system in the Oracle Solaris 11 release. See How to Configure a Mirrored Root Pool in Oracle Solaris Administration: ZFS File Systems for instructions about how to mirror the ZFS root pool. Also see Chapter 5, Managing ZFS Root Pool Components, in Oracle Solaris Administration: ZFS File Systems for information about how to manage the different root pool components.

For maximum availability, mirror root (/), /usr, /var, /opt, and swap on the local disks. However, Oracle Solaris Cluster software does not require that you mirror the ZFS root pool.

Consider the following points when you decide whether to mirror the ZFS root pool: