The following table lists the tasks that you perform to install and configure Solstice DiskSuite/Solaris Volume Manager software for Sun Cluster configurations. You can skip certain procedures in the following conditions:
If you used SunPlex Manager to install Solstice DiskSuite software (Solaris 8), the procedures How to Install Solstice DiskSuite Software through How to Create State Database Replicas are already completed. Go to Mirroring the Root Disk or How to Create a Diskset to continue to configure Solstice DiskSuite software.
If you installed Solaris 9 software, Solaris Volume Manager is already installed. You can start at How to Set the Number of Metadevice or Volume Names and Disksets.
Task |
Instructions |
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1. Plan the layout of your Solstice DiskSuite/Solaris Volume Manager configuration. | |
2. (Solaris 8 only) Install Solstice DiskSuite software. | |
3. Calculate the number of metadevice names and disksets needed for your configuration, and modify the /kernel/drv/md.conf file. |
How to Set the Number of Metadevice or Volume Names and Disksets |
4. Create state database replicas on the local disks. | |
5. (Optional) Mirror file systems on the root disk. | |
6. Create disksets by using the metaset command. | |
7. Add disk drives to the disksets. | |
8. (Optional) Repartition disk drives in a diskset to allocate space to slices 1 through 6. | |
9. List DID pseudo-driver mappings and define metadevices or volumes in the /etc/lvm/md.tab files. | |
10. Initialize the md.tab files. | |
11. (Dual-string configurations only) Configure dual-string mediator hosts, check the status of mediator data, and, if necessary, fix bad mediator data. | |
12. Configure the cluster. |