Netra™ High Availability Suite 3.0 1/08 Foundation Services Installation Guide

Netra™ High Availability Suite 3.0 1/08 Foundation Services Installation Guide

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Contents

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Preface

Installing, Configuring, and Connecting the Cluster to the Installation and Development Servers

Overview of Installing With the nhinstall Tool

Installing and Configuring the Cluster Hardware and Network Topology

Installing and Configuring Rackmounted Servers

Installing and Configuring the Terminal Server

Installing and Configuring Ethernet Switches

Installing and Configuring ATCA Blade Servers

Installing and Configuring the Installation Server Hardware and Software

Connecting the Cluster and the Installation Server

To Connect the Installation Server to the Cluster Network

To Connect the Installation Server to the Public Network

Installing the OS and the Netra HA Suite Software on the Cluster

Installing Netra HA Suite Software on LDoms

Example Installation

Installing LDoms 1.0

To Download the Software

To Install the Solaris OS

To Install the LDoms Software

To Configure the Control Domain and Create Guest Domains

To Install the Netra HA Suite Software

To Automate Node Boot

Installing a Development Host

Installing Software on a Development Host

Connecting the Development Host

Installing and Configuring the nhinstall Tool

Preparing the Installation Environment on a Solaris OS Installation Server

To Create a Solaris Distribution on the Installation Server

To Create a MontaVista Distribution on the Installation Server

To Create a Wind River CGL Distribution on a Solaris Installation Server

To Prepare the Installation Server Running the Solaris OS

Preparing the Installation Environment on a Linux SLES9 Installation Server

To Create a MontaVista Distribution on the Installation Server

To Create a Wind River CGL Distribution on a SLES9 Installation Server

To Prepare the Installation Server Running the Linux SLES9 Operating System

Installing the nhinstall Tool

To Install the nhinstall Tool

Configuring the nhinstall Tool

Selecting the Type of Architecture

Configuring the Disk Partitions on Master-Eligible Nodes

Configuring Disk Partitions on Dataless Nodes

Mirroring Shared Disks on the Solaris OS

Configuring the Disk Fencing on the Solaris OS

Configuring the Scoreboard Bitmaps on the Solaris OS

Configuring the NFS Option noac

Configuring a Direct Link Between the Master-Eligible Nodes

Configuring Automatic Reboot for the Master-Eligible Nodes

Configuring the Carrier Grade Transport Protocol

Configuring the Environment for Diskless Nodes on the Solaris OS

Configuring the Boot Policy for Diskless Nodes on the Solaris OS

Configuring DHCP Configuration Files Locally on Solaris OS Master-Eligible Nodes

Configuring the Default Router to the Public Network

Configuring the Cluster IP Addresses

Configuring the Floating External Address of the Master Node

Configuring External IP Addresses for Cluster Nodes

To Configure External IP Addresses for Cluster Nodes

Sharing Physical Interfaces Between CGTP and IPMP Using VLAN

Configuring Volume Management

To Configure Basic Volume Management for Servers With Different Disk Configurations

To Configure Advanced Volume Management

Selecting the Solaris Package Set to be Installed

Installing a Different Version of the Operating System on Diskless and Dataless Nodes

Configuring a Data Management Policy

Configuring a Masterless Cluster

Configuring Reduced Duration of Disk Synchronization on the Solaris OS

Configuring Sanity Check of Replicated Slices

Configuring Delayed Synchronization

Configuring Serialized Slice Synchronization

Installing the Node Management Agent (NMA) on the Solaris OS

Installing the Node State Manager (NSM)

Installing the SA Forum Cluster Membership API (SA Forum/CLM)

Installing the Software by Using the nhinstall Tool

Stages of the Installation Process

Launching the nhinstall Tool

To Launch the nhinstall Tool

To Boot the Master-Eligible Nodes and Dataless Nodes to Install the Operating System

To Boot the Diskless Nodes

Verifying the Installation

To Verify the Installation

Troubleshooting and Restarting the nhinstall Tool

Resetting the nhinstall Tool for a New Installation

To Remove the Progress Indicator and Reset the nhinstall Tool

Running Administration Tasks on the Cluster

Checking the Cluster Nodes

To Check the Status of the Cluster Nodes

To Check the Network Connection Between Nodes

To Check Node Addresses

Managing Switchovers and Failovers

To Trigger a Switchover

To Reboot the Master Node Causing a Failover

Netra™ High Availability Suite 3.0 1/08 Foundation Services Installation Guide

819-5242-13

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