Installation Overview

You can install Geographic Edition software on a running cluster without disruption. Because the Geographic Edition software installation process does not require you to restart Oracle Solaris Cluster software, the cluster remains in production with services running.

The installer program offers two interactive installation modes, graphical user interface (GUI) and text-based interface. The graphical mode provides a wizard that guides you, step by step, through the tasks that you need to perform to install the Geographic Edition components. The text-based mode provides the same functions that the GUI provides. However, this mode prompts you for responses on a line-by-line basis, rather than by means of a wizard.

If you are installing Geographic Edition 3.3 software on a cluster that runs Sun Cluster 3.2 11/09 software, you must use the pkgadd command to install Geographic Edition packages. The installer program does not permit installation of software from different marketing releases of the same product group.

You must install Geographic Edition software in the global zone for all nodes of a cluster in a partnership, whether it is a global cluster or a zone cluster. For zone clusters, the Geographic Edition software is propagated to the zone-cluster nodes by default.