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Oracle Solaris Cluster Concepts Guide     Oracle Solaris Cluster 3.3 3/13
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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 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 Oracle Solaris Cluster Manager to Monitor 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 Global-Cluster Non-Voting Nodes (Oracle Solaris Zones) Directly Through the RGM

Criteria for Using Support for Oracle Solaris Zones Directly Through the RGM

Requirements for Using Support for Oracle Solaris Zones Directly Through the RGM

Additional Information About Support for Solaris Zones Directly Through the RGM

Support for Oracle Solaris 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

Global Namespace

The Oracle Solaris Cluster software mechanism that enables global devices is the global namespace. The global namespace includes the /dev/global/ hierarchy as well as the volume manager namespaces. The global namespace reflects both multihost disks and local disks (and any other cluster device, such as CD-ROMs and tapes). Each cluster node that is physically connected to multihost disks provides a path to the storage for any node in the cluster.

For Solaris Volume Manager, the volume manager namespaces are located in the /dev/md/diskset/dsk (and rdsk) directories. These namespaces consist of directories for each Solaris Volume Manager disk set imported throughout the cluster.

In the Oracle Solaris Cluster software, each device host in the local volume manager namespace is replaced by a symbolic link to a device host in the /global/.devices/node@nodeID file system. nodeID is an integer that represents the nodes in the cluster. Oracle Solaris Cluster software continues to present the volume manager devices as symbolic links in their standard locations as well. Both the global namespace and standard volume manager namespace are available from any cluster node.

The advantages of the global namespace include the following:

Local and Global Namespaces Example

The following table shows the mappings between the local and global namespaces for a multihost disk, c0t0d0s0.

Table 3-2 Local and Global Namespace Mappings

Component or Path
Local Host Namespace
Global Namespace
Oracle Solaris logical name
/dev/dsk/c0t0d0s0
/global/.devices/node@nodeID/dev/dsk/c0t0d0s0
DID name
/dev/did/dsk/d0s0
/global/.devices/node@nodeID/dev/did/dsk/d0s0
Solaris Volume Manager
/dev/md/diskset/dsk/d0
/global/.devices/node@nodeID/dev/md/diskset/dsk/d0

The global namespace is automatically generated on installation and updated with every reconfiguration reboot. You can also generate the global namespace by using the cldevice command. See the cldevice(1CL) man page.