Connecting and Installing the Clusters (Sun Cluster System Administration Guide for Solaris OS)

Sun Cluster System Administration Guide for Solaris OS

Connecting and Installing the Clusters

Figure A–7 illustrates the cluster configuration the example configuration uses. The secondary cluster in the example configuration contains one node, but other cluster configurations can be used.

Figure A–7 Example Cluster Configuration

Figure illustrates the cluster configuration used in
the example configuration.

Table A–2 summarizes the hardware and software that the example configuration requires. The Solaris OS, Sun Cluster software, and volume manager software must be installed on the cluster nodes before Sun StorageTek Availability Suite software and patches are installed.

Table A–2 Required Hardware and Software


Hardware or Software	Requirement
Node hardware	Sun StorageTek Availability Suite software is supported on all servers that use Solaris OS. For information about which hardware to use, see the Sun Cluster 3.1 - 3.2 Hardware Administration Manual for Solaris OS.
Disk space	Approximately 15 Mbytes.
Solaris OS	Solaris OS releases that are supported by Sun Cluster software. All nodes must use the same version of the Solaris OS. For information about installation, see the Sun Cluster Software Installation Guide for Solaris OS
Sun Cluster software	Sun Cluster 3.2 2/08 software. For information about installation, see the Sun Cluster Software Installation Guide for Solaris OS.
Volume manager software	Solaris Volume Manager software or Veritas Volume Manager (VxVM) software. All nodes must use the same version of volume manager software. For information about installation see Chapter 4, Configuring Solaris Volume Manager Software, in Sun Cluster Software Installation Guide for Solaris OS and Chapter 5, Installing and Configuring Veritas Volume Manager, in Sun Cluster Software Installation Guide for Solaris OS
Sun StorageTek Availability Suite software	For information about how to install the software, see the installation manuals for your release of Sun StorageTek Availability Suite or Sun StorageTek Availability Suite software: Sun StorEdge Availability Suite 3.1 - Sun StorEdge Availability documentation Sun StorEdge Availability Suite 3.2 - Sun StorEdge Availability documentation Sun StorageTek Availability Suite 4.0 – Sun StorageTek Availability documentation
Sun StorageTek Availability Suite software patches	For information about the latest patches, see `http://www.sunsolve.com`.