Installing Geographic Edition Software

You must install Geographic Edition software on every node of each cluster in your geographically separated cluster by using the installer program or the pkgadd command.

How to Install Geographic Edition Software

This procedure explains how to install Geographic Edition software. Perform the procedure in the global zone for each node of a global cluster or zone cluster that you are configuring in a partnership.

Before You Begin

Before you begin to install software, make the following preparations:

Ensure that the Solaris OS is installed to support Geographic Edition software.

If Solaris software is already installed on the node, you must ensure that the Solaris installation meets the requirements for Geographic Edition software and any other software that you intend to install on the cluster.
Read Chapter 1, Planning the Geographic Edition Installation.
Read the following manuals, which contain information that can help you plan your configuration and prepare your installation strategy:
- Oracle Solaris Cluster Geographic Edition 3.3 Release Notes – Restrictions, bug workarounds, and other late-breaking information.
- Oracle Solaris Cluster Geographic Edition Overview.
- Documentation for all third-party software products.

Become superuser in the global zone of the node where you intend to run the Geographic Edition software.
Note - Geographic Edition software must be installed in the global zone for all nodes of each cluster in the partnership, whether the cluster is a global cluster or a zone cluster.
Load the installation DVD-ROM into the DVD-ROM drive.
If the volume management daemon vold(1M) is running and is configured to manage CD-ROM or DVD devices, the daemon automatically mounts the media on the /cdrom/cdrom0/ directory.

Determine your installation method.

If you are installing Geographic Edition 3.3 software on a cluster that runs Sun Cluster 3.2 11/09 software, use the pkgadd command to install the Geographic Edition packages that you want for your configuration.

The installer program does not permit installation of software from different marketing releases of the same product group.

Change to the Solaris_arch/Product/sun_cluster_geo/Solaris_ver/Packages/ directory, where arch is sparc or x86, and where ver is 10 for Solaris 10.
```
# cd /cdrom/cdrom0/Solaris_arch/Product/sun_cluster_geo/Solaris_ver/Packages/
```

Install the Geographic Edition 3.3 software packages.

# pkgadd -G -d . geopackages

Component	Packages
Geographic Edition infrastructure	`SUNWscghbr, SUNWscghb, SUNWscgctlr, SUNWscgctl, SUNWscgspm`¹`, SUNWgman`
EMC Symmetrix Remote Data Facility data replication	`SUNWscgrepsrdf, SUNWscgrepsrdfu`
Hitachi TrueCopy and Universal Replicator data replication	`SUNWscgreptc, SUNWscgreptcu`
Oracle Data Guard data replication	`SUNWscghrepodg, SUNWscgrepodgu`
Sun StorageTek Availability Suite software	`SUNWscgrepavs`¹, `SUNWscgrepavsu`¹
Geographic Edition script-based plug-ins data replication	`SUNWscgrepsbpu`

¹ not applicable in zone clusters

If you are installing Geographic Edition 3.3 on Oracle Solaris Cluster 3.3 software, use the installer program.
1. To use the installer program with a GUI, ensure that the display environment of the cluster node to install is set to display the GUI.
```
% xhost +
% setenv DISPLAY nodename:0.0
```
  If the display environment is not set to display the GUI, the installer program instead displays in text-based mode.
2. Change to the installation wizard directory of the DVD-ROM.
  - For the SPARC platform, type the following command:
```
# cd /cdrom/cdrom0/Solaris_sparc
```
  - For the x86 platform, type the following command:
```
# cd /cdrom/cdrom0/Solaris_x86
```
3. Start the installer program.
```
# ./installer
```
  The installer starts and displays the Welcome page. To exit the installer at any time, click Cancel. For more information about the installer program, see Sun Java Enterprise System 5 Update 1 Installation Guide for UNIX.
4. Follow instructions on the screens to read and accept the Software License Agreement.
  After you accept the license terms, the Choose Software Components menu is displayed.
5. Select Oracle Solaris Cluster Geographic Edition 3.3 and press Return.
  The Confirm Choices screen is displayed.
6. Press Return to confirm your choice.
  The Oracle Solaris Cluster Geographic Edition 3.3 submenu is displayed.
7. Follow onscreen instructions to select the following products from the Oracle Solaris Cluster Geographic Edition submenu.
  - Oracle Solaris Cluster Geographic Edition 3.3.
  - The data replication software that you want to use.
  - (Optional) Oracle Solaris Cluster Manager - Geographic Edition.
8. When prompted, choose whether to install multilingual packages.
  Note - If you choose to install multilingual packages, ensure that all nodes of the cluster have the same default locale.

Unload the installation DVD-ROM from the DVD-ROM drive.
Repeat this procedure on each node of each partner cluster.

Next Steps

Install required patches. Go to Installing Patches.

Configure Geographic Edition software on the clusters. Go to Chapter 3, Enabling and Configuring the Geographic Edition Software.

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