The Sun Cluster 3.0-3.1 Hardware Administration Manual for Solaris OS provides a variety of information about how to install and administer basic SunTM Cluster hardware components. Topics covered in this book include how to install and configure terminal concentrators, the cluster interconnect, public network hardware, campus clustering, and dynamic reconfiguration.
Use this manual with any version of Sun Cluster 3.0 or .31 software. Unless otherwise noted, procedures are the same for all Sun Cluster 3.0 and 3.1 versions.
Sun Cluster software runs on two platforms, SPARC and x86. The information in this document pertains to both platforms unless otherwise specified in a special chapter, section, note, bulleted item, figure, table, or example. Procedures are also the same unless otherwise noted for Sun Cluster 3.1 03/04 and later versions on both SPARC® and x86 based systems.
In this document, the term “x86” refers to the Intel 32-bit family of microprocessor chips and compatible microprocessor chips made by AMD.
In this document, references to Oracle Real Application Clusters also apply to Oracle Parallel Server unless otherwise stated.
See the Revision History for a list of changes to this manual.
This book does not include information about configuring servers in a Sun Cluster environment nor does it include specific storage device procedures.
This book is for Sun representatives who are performing the initial installation of a Sun Cluster configuration and for system administrators who are responsible for maintaining the system.
This document is intended for experienced system administrators with extensive knowledge of Sun software and hardware. Do not use this document as a planning or presales guide. You should have already determined your system requirements and purchased the appropriate equipment and software before reading this document.
The following chapters contain information about hardware used in a Sun Cluster environment.
Chapter 1, Introduction to Sun Cluster Hardware provides an overview of installing and administering Sun Cluster hardware.
Chapter 2, Installing and Configuring the Terminal Concentrator describes how to install and configure a terminal concentrator.
Chapter 3, Installing Cluster Interconnect Hardware and Configuring VLANs describes how to install cluster interconnect hardware and configure VLANs.
Chapter 4, Maintaining Cluster Interconnect Hardware describes how to maintain cluster interconnect hardware.
Chapter 5, Installing and Maintaining Public Network Hardware describes how to install and maintain the public network hardware.
Chapter 7, SPARC: Campus Clustering With Sun Cluster Software provides guidelines and diagrams on how to configure a campus cluster.
Chapter 8, Verifying Sun Cluster Hardware Redundancy describes how to verify cluster redundancy.
Chapter 9, Recabling and Replacing Disk Devices provides procedures on how to recable disks.
Appendix A, Data Replication Approaches describes host-based and storage-based data replication in standard and campus clusters.
The following table lists the information that has been revised or added since the initial release of this documentation. The table also lists the revision date for these changes.
Table P–1 Sun Cluster 3.0-3.1 Hardware Administration Manual for Solaris OS
Revision Date |
New Information |
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June 2006 |
Added restriction on spanning tree algorithm when using Ethernet switches in the cluster private interconnect. |
May 2006 |
Amended information regarding internal disk RAID for servers. |
January 2006 |
Added information on single, dual-port HBA configurations. |
December 2005 |
Added information about using InfiniBand on the cluster interconnect. |
The following books provide conceptual information or procedures to administer hardware and applications. If you plan to use this documentation in a hardcopy format, ensure that you have these books available for your reference.
The following Sun Cluster books support the Sun Cluster 3.1, 2004, and 2005 releases. If you are maintaining a different version of Sun Cluster software, refer to the appropriate documentation. All Sun Cluster documentation is available at http://docs.sun.com.
Documentation that is not available at http://docs.sun.com is listed with the appropriate URL.
Table P–2 Hardware Documentation
Title |
Part Number |
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Sun Fire Link Software Installation Guide http://docs.sun.com/db/doc/817-0401-11. |
817-0401 |
Sun Fire Link Service Manual http://docs.sun.com/db/doc/806-1394-10. |
806-1394 |
Sun Fire Link Fabric Administrator's Guide http://docs.sun.com/db/doc/806-1405-10. |
806-1405 |
Sun Fire Link Hardware Installation Guide Available on http://docs.sun.com/db/doc/806-1396-11. |
806-1396 |
Sun StorEdge SAN Foundation 4.2 Installation Guide Available on http://www.sun.com/products-n-solutions/hardware/docs/Network_Storage_Solutions/SAN |
817-1244 |
Sun StorEdge SAN Foundation 4.2 Configuration Guide Available on http://www.sun.com/products-n-solutions/hardware/docs/Network_Storage_Solutions/SAN |
817-1245 |
Sun StorEdge SAN Foundation 4.2 Guide to Documentation Available on http://www.sun.com/products-n-solutions/hardware/docs/Network_Storage_Solutions/SAN |
817-1576 |
Sun StorEdge SAN Foundation 4.2 Release Notes Available on http://www.sun.com/products-n-solutions/hardware/docs/Network_Storage_Solutions/SAN |
817-1246 |
816-0850 |
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Sun Gigabit Ethernet/P 2.0 Adapter Installation and User's Guide Available on http://www.sun.com/products-n-solutions/hardware/docs |
804-6140 |
Sun StorEdge Long Wave GBIC Interface Converter Guide Available on http://www.sun.com/products-n-solutions/hardware/docs |
805-6965 |
Sun StorEdge Traffic Manager Installation and Configuration Guide Available on http://www.sun.com/products-n-solutions/hardware/docs |
816-1420 |
Table P–3 Sun Cluster Documentation
Application |
Title |
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Concepts | |
Overview | |
Hardware administration |
Sun Cluster 3.0-3.1 Hardware Administration Manual for Solaris OS Individual hardware administration guides |
Software installation | |
Data service administration |
Sun Cluster Data Services Planning and Administration Guide for Solaris OS Individual data service guides |
Data service development | |
System administration | |
Error messages | |
Command and function reference | |
Release Notes |
This document contains information about commands that are used to install, configure, or upgrade a Sun Cluster configuration. This document might not contain complete information about basic UNIX® commands and procedures such as shutting down the system, booting the system, and configuring devices.
See one or more of the following sources for this information:
Online documentation for the SolarisTM Operating System (Solaris OS)
Other software documentation that you received with your system
Solaris Operating System man pages
If you have problems installing or using Sun Cluster, contact your service provider and provide the following information.
Your name and email address (if available)
Your company name, address, and phone number
The model number and serial number of your systems
The release number of the operating environment (for example, Solaris 9)
The release number of Sun Cluster (for example, Sun Cluster 3.1 8/05)
Use the following commands to gather information about your system for your service provider.
Command |
Function |
---|---|
prtconf -v |
Displays the size of the system memory and reports information about peripheral devices |
psrinfo -v |
Displays information about processors |
showrev -p |
Reports which patches are installed |
prtdiag -v |
Displays system diagnostic information |
/usr/cluster/bin/scinstall -pv |
Displays Sun Cluster release and package version information |
Also have available the contents of the /var/adm/messages file.
The Sun web site provides information about the following additional resources:
The following table describes the typographic conventions that are used in this book.
Table P–4 Typographic Conventions
Typeface |
Meaning |
Example |
---|---|---|
AaBbCc123 |
The names of commands, files, and directories, and onscreen computer output |
Edit your .login file. Use ls -a to list all files. machine_name% you have mail. |
AaBbCc123 |
What you type, contrasted with onscreen computer output |
machine_name% su Password: |
aabbcc123 |
Placeholder: replace with a real name or value |
The command to remove a file is rm filename. |
AaBbCc123 |
Book titles, new terms, and terms to be emphasized |
Read Chapter 6 in the User's Guide. A cache is a copy that is stored locally. Do not save the file. Note: Some emphasized items appear bold online. |
The following table shows the default UNIX system prompt and superuser prompt for the C shell, Bourne shell, and Korn shell.
Table P–5 Shell Prompts
Shell |
Prompt |
---|---|
C shell |
machine_name% |
C shell for superuser |
machine_name# |
Bourne shell and Korn shell |
$ |
Bourne shell and Korn shell for superuser |
# |
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