Sun Cluster 3.0-3.1 Hardware Administration Manual for Solaris OS augments documentation that ships with your hardware components by providing information on maintaining the hardware specifically in a Sun Cluster environment. Table 1–2 describes some of the differences between maintaining cluster hardware and maintaining standalone hardware.
Table 1–2 Sample Differences Between Servicing Standalone and Cluster Hardware
Task |
Standalone Hardware |
Cluster Hardware |
---|---|---|
Shutting down a node |
Use the shutdown(1M) command. |
To perform an orderly node shutdown, first use the scswitch(1M) command to switch device groups and resource groups to another node. Then shut down the node by running the shutdown(1M) command. |
Adding a disk |
Run boot -r on a SPARC based system, b -r on an x86 based system, or devfsadm(1M) to assign a logical device name to the disk. You also need to run volume manager commands to configure the new disk if the disks are under volume management control. |
Use the devfsadm(1M), scgdevs(1M), and scdidadm(1M) commands. You also need to run volume manager commands to configure the new disk if the disks are under volume management control. |
Adding a transport adapter or public network adapter |
Perform an orderly node shutdown, then install the public network adapter. After you install the network adapter, update the /etc/hostname.adapter and/etc/inet/hosts files. |
Perform an orderly node shutdown, then install the public network adapter. After you install the public network adapter, update the /etc/hostname.adapter and/etc/inet/hosts files. Finally, add this public network adapter to an IP Network Multipathing group. |