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Sun Cluster Software Installation Guide for Solaris OS
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Preface
Chapter 1 Planning the Sun Cluster Configuration
Finding Sun Cluster Installation Tasks
Planning the Solaris OS
Guidelines for Selecting Your Solaris Installation Method
Solaris OS Feature Restrictions
Solaris Software Group Considerations
System Disk Partitions
Guidelines for the Root (/) File System
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
Public Networks
IP Network Multipathing Groups
Guidelines for NFS
Service Restrictions
Sun Cluster Configurable Components
Cluster Name
Node Names
Private Network
Private Hostnames
Cluster Interconnect
Transport Adapters
Transport Junctions
Quorum Devices
Planning the Global Devices and Cluster File Systems
Guidelines for Highly Available Global Devices and Cluster File Systems
Cluster File Systems
Disk Device Groups
Mount Information for Cluster File Systems
Planning Volume Management
Guidelines for Volume-Manager Software
Guidelines for Solstice DiskSuite or Solaris Volume Manager Software
SPARC: Guidelines for VERITAS Volume Manager Software
File-System Logging
Mirroring Guidelines
Guidelines for Mirroring Multihost Disks
Guidelines for 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 an Administrative Console
How to Install Solaris Software
SPARC: How to Install Sun Multipathing Software
SPARC: How to Install VERITAS File System Software
How to Install Sun Cluster Framework and Data-Service Software Packages (Java ES installer)
How to Set Up the Root Environment
Establishing the Cluster
How to Configure Sun Cluster Software on All Nodes (scinstall)
How to Install Solaris and Sun Cluster Software (JumpStart)
Using SunPlex Installer to Configure Sun Cluster Software
Installation Requirements
Test IP Addresses
Character-Set Limitations
How to Configure Sun Cluster Software (SunPlex Installer)
How to Configure Sun Cluster Software on Additional Cluster Nodes (scinstall)
How to Update SCSI Reservations After Adding a Node
How to Install Data-Service Software Packages (pkgadd)
How to Install Data-Service Software Packages (scinstall)
How to Install Data-Service Software Packages (Web Start installer)
How to Configure Quorum Devices
How to Verify the Quorum Configuration and Installation Mode
Configuring the Cluster
How to Create Cluster File Systems
How to Configure Internet Protocol (IP) Network Multipathing Groups
How to Change Private Hostnames
How to Configure Network Time Protocol (NTP)
SPARC: Installing the Sun Cluster Module for Sun Management Center
SPARC: Installation Requirements for Sun Cluster Monitoring
SPARC: How to Install the Sun Cluster Module for Sun Management Center
SPARC: How to Start Sun Management Center
SPARC: How to Add a Cluster Node as a Sun Management Center Agent Host Object
SPARC: How to Load the Sun Cluster Module
Uninstalling the Software
How to Uninstall Sun Cluster Software to Correct Installation Problems
How to Uninstall the SUNWscrdt Package
How to Unload the RSMRDT Driver Manually
Chapter 3 Installing and Configuring Solstice DiskSuite or Solaris Volume Manager Software
Installing and Configuring Solstice DiskSuite or Solaris Volume Manager Software
How to Install Solstice DiskSuite Software
How to Set the Number of Metadevice or Volume Names and Disk Sets
How to Create State Database Replicas
Mirroring the Root Disk
How to Mirror the Root (/) File System
How to Mirror the Global Namespace
How to Mirror File Systems Other Than Root (/) That Cannot Be Unmounted
How to Mirror File Systems That Can Be Unmounted
Creating Disk Sets in a Cluster
How to Create a Disk Set
Adding Drives to a Disk Set
How to Add Drives to a Disk Set
How to Repartition Drives in a Disk Set
How to Create an md.tab File
How to Activate Metadevices or Volumes
Configuring Dual-String Mediators
Requirements for Dual-String Mediators
How to Add Mediator Hosts
How to Check the Status of Mediator Data
How to Fix Bad Mediator Data
Chapter 4 SPARC: Installing and Configuring VERITAS Volume Manager
SPARC: Installing and Configuring VxVM Software
SPARC: Setting Up a Root Disk Group Overview
SPARC: How to Install VERITAS Volume Manager Software
SPARC: How to Encapsulate the Root Disk
SPARC: How to Create a Root Disk Group on a Nonroot Disk
SPARC: How to Mirror the Encapsulated Root Disk
SPARC: Creating Disk Groups in a Cluster
SPARC: How to Create and Register a Disk Group
SPARC: How to Assign a New Minor Number to a Disk Device Group
SPARC: How to Verify the Disk Group Configuration
SPARC: Unencapsulating the Root Disk
SPARC: How to Unencapsulate the Root Disk
Chapter 5 Upgrading Sun Cluster Software
Overview of Upgrading a Sun Cluster Configuration
Upgrade Requirements and Software Support Guidelines
Choosing a Sun Cluster Upgrade Method
Performing a Nonrolling Upgrade
How to Prepare the Cluster for a Nonrolling Upgrade
How to Perform a Nonrolling Upgrade of the Solaris OS
How to Upgrade Dependency Software Before a Nonrolling Upgrade
How to Perform a Nonrolling Upgrade of Sun Cluster 3.1 8/05 Software
How to Verify a Nonrolling Upgrade of Sun Cluster 3.1 8/05 Software
How to Finish a Nonrolling Upgrade to Sun Cluster 3.1 8/05 Software
Performing a Rolling Upgrade
How to Prepare a Cluster Node for a Rolling Upgrade
How to Perform a Rolling Upgrade of a Solaris Maintenance Update
How to Upgrade Dependency Software Before a Rolling Upgrade
How to Perform a Rolling Upgrade of Sun Cluster 3.1 8/05 Software
How to Finish a Rolling Upgrade to Sun Cluster 3.1 8/05 Software
Recovering From Storage Configuration Changes During Upgrade
How to Handle Storage Reconfiguration During an Upgrade
How to Resolve Mistaken Storage Changes During an Upgrade
SPARC: Upgrading Sun Management Center Software
SPARC: How to Upgrade Sun Cluster Module Software for Sun Management Center
SPARC: How to Upgrade Sun Management Center Software
Chapter 6 Configuring Data Replication With Sun StorEdge Availability Suite Software
Introduction to Data Replication
What Is Disaster Tolerance?
Data Replication Methods Used by Sun StorEdge Availability Suite Software
Remote Mirror Replication
Point-in-Time Snapshot
Replication in the Example Configuration
Guidelines for Configuring Data Replication
Configuring Replication Resource Groups
Configuring Application Resource Groups
Configuring Resource Groups for a Failover Application
Configuring Resource Groups for a Scalable Application
Guidelines for Managing a Failover or Switchover
Task Map: Example of a Data–Replication Configuration
Connecting and Installing the Clusters
Example of How to Configure Device Groups and Resource Groups
How to Configure a Disk Device Group on the Primary Cluster
How to Configure a Disk Device Group on the Secondary Cluster
How to Configure the File System on the Primary Cluster for the NFS Application
How to Configure the File System on the Secondary Cluster for the NFS Application
How to Create a Replication Resource Group on the Primary Cluster
How to Create a Replication Resource Group on the Secondary Cluster
How to Create an NFS Application Resource Group on the Primary Cluster
How to Create an NFS Application Resource Group on the Secondary Cluster
Example of How to Enable Data Replication
How to Enable Replication on the Primary Cluster
How to Enable Replication on the Secondary Cluster
Example of How to Perform Data Replication
How to Perform a Remote Mirror Replication
How to Perform a Point-in-Time Snapshot
How to Verify That Replication Is Configured Correctly
Example of How to Manage a Failover or Switchover
How to Provoke a Switchover
How to Update the DNS Entry
Appendix A Sun Cluster Installation and Configuration Worksheets
Installation and Configuration Worksheets
Local File System Layout Worksheet
Example: Local File System Layout Worksheets, With and Without Mirrored Root
Public Networks Worksheet
Example: Public Networks Worksheet
Local Devices Worksheets
Example: Local Devices Worksheets
Disk Device Group Configurations Worksheet
Example: Disk Device Group Configurations Worksheet
Volume-Manager Configurations Worksheet
Example: Volume-Manager Configurations Worksheet
Metadevices Worksheet (Solstice DiskSuite or Solaris Volume Manager)
Example: Metadevices Worksheet (Solstice DiskSuite or Solaris Volume Manager)
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