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Oracle Solaris Cluster Concepts Guide     Oracle Solaris Cluster 4.1
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Preface

1.  Introduction and Overview

2.  Key Concepts for Hardware Service Providers

3.  Key Concepts for System Administrators and Application Developers

Administrative Interfaces

Cluster Time

Campus Clusters

High-Availability Framework

Global Devices

Device IDs and DID Pseudo Driver

Zone Cluster Membership

Cluster Membership Monitor

Failfast Mechanism

Cluster Configuration Repository (CCR)

Device Groups

Device Group Failover

Device Group Ownership

Global Namespace

Local and Global Namespaces Example

Cluster File Systems

Using Cluster File Systems

HAStoragePlus Resource Type

syncdir Mount Option

Disk Path Monitoring

DPM Overview

Monitoring Disk Paths

Using the cldevice Command to Monitor and Administer Disk Paths

Using the clnode set Command to Manage Disk Path Failure

Quorum and Quorum Devices

About Quorum Vote Counts

About Quorum Configurations

Adhering to Quorum Device Requirements

Adhering to Quorum Device Best Practices

Recommended Quorum Configurations

Quorum in Two-Node Configurations

Quorum in Greater Than Two-Node Configurations

Load Limits

Data Services

Data Service Methods

Failover Data Services

Scalable Data Services

Load-Balancing Policies

Failback Settings

Data Services Fault Monitors

Developing New Data Services

Characteristics of Scalable Services

Data Service API and Data Service Development Library API

Using the Cluster Interconnect for Data Service Traffic

Resources, Resource Groups, and Resource Types

Resource Group Manager (RGM)

Resource and Resource Group States and Settings

Resource and Resource Group Properties

Support for Oracle Solaris Zones

Support for Zones on Cluster Nodes Through Oracle Solaris Cluster HA for Solaris Zones

Criteria for Using Oracle Solaris Cluster HA for Solaris Zones

Requirements for Using Oracle Solaris Cluster HA for Solaris Zones

Additional Information About Oracle Solaris Cluster HA for Solaris Zones

Service Management Facility

System Resource Usage

System Resource Monitoring

Control of CPU

Viewing System Resource Usage

Data Service Project Configuration

Determining Requirements for Project Configuration

Setting Per-Process Virtual Memory Limits

Failover Scenarios

Two-Node Cluster With Two Applications

Two-Node Cluster With Three Applications

Failover of Resource Group Only

Public Network Adapters and IP Network Multipathing

SPARC: Dynamic Reconfiguration Support

SPARC: Dynamic Reconfiguration General Description

SPARC: DR Clustering Considerations for CPU Devices

SPARC: DR Clustering Considerations for Memory

SPARC: DR Clustering Considerations for Disk and Tape Drives

SPARC: DR Clustering Considerations for Quorum Devices

SPARC: DR Clustering Considerations for Cluster Interconnect Interfaces

SPARC: DR Clustering Considerations for Public Network Interfaces

Index

Resources, Resource Groups, and Resource Types

Data services use several types of resources: applications such as Oracle iPlanet Web Server or Apache Web Server use network addresses (logical host names and shared addresses) on which the applications depend. Application and network resources form a basic unit that is managed by the Resource Group Manager (RGM).

For example, Oracle Solaris Cluster HA for Oracle is the resource type SUNW.oracle-server and Oracle Solaris Cluster HA for Apache is the resource type SUNW.apache.

A resource is an instance of a resource type that is defined cluster wide. Several resource types are defined.

Network resources are either SUNW.LogicalHostname or SUNW.SharedAddress resource types. These two resource types are preregistered by the Oracle Solaris Cluster software.

The HAStoragePlus resource type is used to synchronize the startup of resources and device groups on which the resources depend. This resource type ensures that before a data service starts, the paths to a cluster file system's mount points, global devices, and device group names are available. For more information, see Synchronizing the Startups Between Resource Groups and Device Groups in Oracle Solaris Cluster Data Services Planning and Administration Guide. The HAStoragePlus resource type also enables local file systems to be highly available. For more information about this feature, see HAStoragePlus Resource Type.

RGM-managed resources are placed into groups, called resource groups, so that they can be managed as a unit. A resource group is migrated as a unit if a failover or switchover is initiated on the resource group.


Note - When you bring a resource group that contains application resources online, the application is started. The data service start method waits until the application is running before exiting successfully. The determination of when the application is up and running is accomplished the same way the data service fault monitor determines that a data service is serving clients. Refer to the Oracle Solaris Cluster Data Services Planning and Administration Guide for more information about this process.


Resource Group Manager (RGM)

The RGM controls data services (applications) as resources, which are managed by resource type implementations. These implementations are either supplied by Oracle or created by a developer with a generic data service template, the Data Service Development Library API (DSDL API), or the Resource Management API (RMAPI). The cluster administrator creates and manages resources in containers called resource groups. The RGM stops and starts resource groups on selected nodes in response to cluster membership changes.

The RGM acts on resources and resource groups. RGM actions cause resources and resource groups to move between online and offline states. A complete description of the states and settings that can be applied to resources and resource groups is located in Resource and Resource Group States and Settings.

Refer to Data Service Project Configuration for information about how to launch Oracle Solaris projects under RGM control.

Resource and Resource Group States and Settings

A system administrator applies static settings to resources and resource groups. You can change these settings only by administrative action. The RGM moves resource groups between dynamic “states.”

These settings and states are as follows:

Resource and Resource Group Properties

You can configure property values for resources and resource groups for your Oracle Solaris Cluster data services. Standard properties are common to all data services. Extension properties are specific to each data service. Some standard and extension properties are configured with default settings so that you do not have to modify them. Others need to be set as part of the process of creating and configuring resources. The documentation for each data service specifies which resource properties can be set and how to set them.

The standard properties are used to configure resource and resource group properties that are usually independent of any particular data service. For the set of standard properties, see the following man pages: cluster(1CL), rt_properties(5), rg_properties(5), r_properties(5), and property_attributes(5).

The RGM extension properties provide information such as the location of application binaries and configuration files. You modify extension properties as you configure your data services. The set of extension properties is described in the individual guide for the data service.