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Sun Cluster Geographic Edition Installation Guide

Planning Required Software

This section helps you to adapt the configuration of your Sun Cluster software for the installation of the Sun Cluster Geographic Edition software. This section also helps you to plan the installation of your data replication software.

The Sun Cluster Geographic Edition software must be installed on a cluster that is running the Solaris Operating System and the Sun Cluster software. The Sun Cluster Geographic Edition software configuration is identical to the as Sun Cluster software configuration.

Required Software

The following table lists the required software.

Table 1–1 Required Software

Software 

Version 

Operating System 

Solaris 8 or 9 (SPARC® edition)

Sun Cluster software 

Sun Cluster 3.1, 8/05 

This version includes version 1.0 of the Common Agent Container that supports the Sun Cluster 3.1 8/05SunPlexTM Manager. The Sun Cluster Geographic Edition product uses the same Common Agent Container infrastructure as the Sun Cluster SunPlex Manager.

Volume management software 

  • For use with Hitachi TrueCopy software: VERITAS Volume Manager software

  • For use with Sun StorEdge Availability Suite 3.2.1 software: Solaris Volume Manager software or VERITAS Volume Manager software

Data replication software 

  • Sun StorEdge Availability Suite 3.2.1 software

  • Hitachi TrueCopy RAID Manager/Solaris Version 01–10–03/02

Sun Cluster Geographic Edition 

Sun Cluster Geographic Edition 3.1 8/05 

Planning the Data Replication Software

A cluster that is using the Sun Cluster Geographic Edition software with a data replication product is subject to the standard configuration rules of a cluster that is running the data replication product with Sun Cluster software. Partner clusters must have compatible software configurations to support data replication between the clusters.

The Sun Cluster Geographic Edition product supports the following data replication products:

If you use Hitachi TrueCopy RAID Manager software, it must be installed on each node of the cluster.

The Sun StorEdge Availability Suite 3.2.1 software is a host-based replication method. This method consists of software installed on a host that controls replication from one server to a secondary server.

The Hitachi TrueCopy replication method is a storage-based method. These methods use replication that is built into the storage hardware.