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Sun Cluster 3.1 Software Installation Guide
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Preface
Chapter 1 Planning the Sun Cluster Configuration
Where to Find Sun Cluster Installation Tasks
Planning the Solaris Operating Environment
Guidelines for Selecting Your Solaris Installation Method
Solaris Software Group Considerations
System Disk Partitions
Guidelines for the Root (/) File System
Guidelines for the swap Partition
Guidelines for the /globaldevices File System
Volume Manager Requirements
Example—Sample File System Allocations
Planning the Sun Cluster Environment
Licensing
Software Patches
IP Addresses
Console-Access Devices
Logical Addresses
Sun Cluster Configurable Components
Cluster Name
Node Names
Private Network
Private Hostnames
Cluster Interconnect
Public Networks
Disk Device Groups
IP Network Multipathing Groups
Quorum Devices
Planning the Global Devices and Cluster File Systems
Guidelines for Highly Available Global Devices and Cluster File Systems
Mount Information for Cluster File Systems
Planning Volume Management
Guidelines for Volume Manager Software
Guidelines for Solstice DiskSuite/Solaris Volume Manager Software
Guidelines for VERITAS Volume Manager Software
File-System Logging
Mirroring Guidelines
Mirroring Multihost Disks
Mirroring the Root Disk
Chapter 2 Installing and Configuring Sun Cluster Software
Installing the Software
How to Prepare for Cluster Software Installation
How to Install Cluster Control Panel Software on the Administrative Console
How to Install Solaris Software
How to Install Sun Cluster Software on the First Cluster Node (scinstall)
Example—Installing Sun Cluster Software on the First Node
How to Install Sun Cluster Software on Additional Cluster Nodes (scinstall)
Example—Installing Sun Cluster Software on the Second Node
Using SunPlex Manager to Install Sun Cluster Software
How to Install Solaris and Sun Cluster Software (JumpStart)
How to Configure the Name Service Switch
How to Set Up the Root Environment
How to Install Data Service Software Packages
How to Perform Post-Installation Setup
How to Uninstall Sun Cluster Software To Correct Installation Problems
Configuring the Cluster
How to Add Cluster File Systems
Example—Creating a Cluster File System
How to Configure Internet Protocol (IP) Network Multipathing Groups
How to Change Private Hostnames
How to Configure Network Time Protocol (NTP)
Installing the Sun Cluster Module for Sun Management Center
Installation Requirements for Sun Cluster Monitoring
How to Install the Sun Cluster Module for Sun Management Center
How to Start Sun Management Center
How to Add a Cluster Node as a Sun Management Center Agent Host Object
How to Load the Sun Cluster Module
Chapter 3 Upgrading Sun Cluster Software
Upgrading From Sun Cluster 3.0 to Sun Cluster 3.1 Software
Overview of Upgrading From Sun Cluster 3.0 to Sun Cluster 3.1 Software
Upgrade Guidelines
How to Prepare the Cluster for Upgrade
How to Upgrade the Solaris Operating Environment
How to Upgrade Cluster Software
Example—Upgrading From Sun Cluster 3.0 to Sun Cluster 3.1 Software
How to Finish Upgrading Cluster Software
Sun Management Center Software Upgrade
How to Upgrade Sun Management Center Software
Appendix A Installing and Configuring Solstice DiskSuite/Solaris Volume Manager Software
Installing and Configuring Solstice DiskSuite/Solaris Volume Manager Software
Solstice DiskSuite/Solaris Volume Manager Configuration Example
How to Install Solstice DiskSuite Software
How to Set the Number of Metadevice or Volume Names and Disksets
How to Create State Database Replicas
Example—Creating State Database Replicas
Mirroring the Root Disk
How to Mirror the Root (/) File System
Example—Mirroring the Root (/) File System
How to Mirror the Global Namespace
Example—Mirroring the Global Namespace
How to Mirror File Systems Other than Root (/) That Cannot Be Unmounted
Example—Mirroring File Systems That Cannot Be Unmounted
How to Mirror File Systems That Can Be Unmounted
Example—Mirroring File Systems That Can Be Unmounted
How to Create a Diskset
Example—Creating a Diskset
Adding Drives to a Diskset
Example—Adding Drives to a Diskset
How to Repartition Drives in a Diskset
How to Create an md.tab File
Example—Sample md.tab File
How to Activate Metadevices or Volumes
Example—Activating Metadevices or Volumes in the md.tab File
Mediators Overview
Example—Adding Mediator Hosts
How to Check the Status of Mediator Data
How to Fix Bad Mediator Data
Appendix B Installing and Configuring VERITAS Volume Manager
Installing and Configuring VxVM Software
Setting Up a rootdg Disk Group Overview
Where to Go From Here
How to Install VERITAS Volume Manager Software and Encapsulate the Root Disk
How to Mirror the Encapsulated Root Disk
Example—Mirroring the Encapsulated Root Disk
How to Install VERITAS Volume Manager Software Only
How to Create a rootdg Disk Group on a Non-Root Disk
How to Create and Register a Disk Group
How to Assign a New Minor Number to a Disk Device Group
Example—How to Assign a New Minor Number to a Disk Device Group
How to Verify the Disk Group Configuration
How to Unencapsulate the Root Disk
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