Sun Cluster 3.1 Data Service Planning and Administration Guide

Overview of the Installation and Configuration Process

Use the following procedures to install and configure data services.

Before you install and configure data services, see the Sun Cluster 3.1 Software Installation Guide, which includes procedures on how to install the data service software packages and how to configure Internet Protocol Network Multipathing (IP Networking Multipathing) groups that the network resources use.


Note –

You can use SunPlex Manager to install and configure the following data services: Sun Cluster HA for Oracle, Sun Cluster HA for Sun ONE Web Server, Sun Cluster HA for Sun ONE Directory Server, Sun Cluster HA for Apache, Sun Cluster HA for DNS, and Sun Cluster HA for NFS. See the SunPlex Manager online help for more information.


Installation and Configuration Task Flow

The following table shows a task map of the procedures to install and configure a Sun Cluster failover data service.

Table 1–1 Task Map: Sun Cluster Data Service Installation and Configuration

Task 

For Instructions, Go to 

Install the Solaris and Sun Cluster software 

Sun Cluster 3.1 Software Installation Guide

Set up IP Networking Multipathing groups 

Sun Cluster 3.1 Software Installation Guide

Set up multihost disks 

Sun Cluster 3.1 Software Installation Guide

Plan resources and resource groups 

Sun Cluster 3.1 Release Notes

Decide the location for application binaries, and configure the nsswitch.conf file

Chapter 1, Planning for Sun Cluster Data Services

Install and configure the application software 

The appropriate Sun Cluster data services book.  

Install the data service software packages 

Sun Cluster 3.1 Software Installation Guide or the appropriate Sun Cluster data services book.

Register and configure the data service 

The appropriate Sun Cluster data services book.  

Example

The example in this section shows how you might set up the resource types, resources, and resource groups for an Oracle application that has been instrumented to be a highly available failover data service.

The main difference between this example and an example of a scalable data service is that, in addition to the failover resource group that contains the network resources, a scalable data service requires a separate resource group (called a scalable resource group) for the application resources.

The Oracle application has two components, a server and a listener. Sun supplies the Sun Cluster HA for Oracle data service, and therefore these components have already been mapped into Sun Cluster resource types. Both of these resource types are associated with resources and resource groups.

Because this example is a failover data service, the example uses logical hostname network resources, which are the IP addresses that fail over from a primary node to a secondary node. Place the logical hostname resources into a failover resource group, and then place the Oracle server resources and listener resources into the same resource group. This ordering enables all of the resources to fail over as a group.

For Sun Cluster HA for Oracle run to on the cluster, you must define the following objects.