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Oracle Solaris Cluster System Administration Guide
September 2010, Revision A
This book describes how to administer an Oracle Solaris Cluster configuration.
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Preface
1. Introduction to Administering Oracle Solaris Cluster
Overview of Administering Oracle Solaris Cluster
Working With a Zone Cluster
Oracle Solaris OS Feature Restrictions
Administration Tools
Graphical User Interface
Command-Line Interface
Preparing to Administer the Cluster
Documenting an Oracle Solaris Cluster Hardware Configuration
Using an Administrative Console
Backing Up the Cluster
Beginning to Administer the Cluster
How to Log Into the Cluster Remotely
How to Connect Securely to Cluster Consoles
How to Access the Cluster Configuration Utilities
How to Display Oracle Solaris Cluster Patch Information
How to Display Oracle Solaris Cluster Release and Version Information
How to Display Configured Resource Types, Resource Groups, and Resources
How to Check the Status of Cluster Components
How to Check the Status of the Public Network
How to View the Cluster Configuration
How to Validate a Basic Cluster Configuration
How to Check the Global Mount Points
How to View the Contents of Oracle Solaris Cluster Command Logs
2. Oracle Solaris Cluster and RBAC
Setting Up and Using RBAC With Oracle Solaris Cluster
Oracle Solaris Cluster RBAC Rights Profiles
Creating and Assigning an RBAC Role With an Oracle Solaris Cluster Management Rights Profile
How to Create a Role by Using the Administrative Roles Tool
How to Create a Role From the Command Line
Modifying a User's RBAC Properties
How to Modify a User's RBAC Properties by Using the User Accounts Tool
How to Modify a User's RBAC Properties From the Command Line
3. Shutting Down and Booting a Cluster
Overview of Shutting Down and Booting a Cluster
How to Shut Down a Cluster
How to Boot a Cluster
How to Reboot a Cluster
Shutting Down and Booting a Single Node in a Cluster
How to Shut Down a Node
How to Boot a Node
How to Reboot a Node
How to Boot a Node in Noncluster Mode
Repairing a Full
/var
File System
How to Repair a Full
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File System
4. Data Replication Approaches
Understanding Data Replication
Supported Data Replication Methods
Using Storage-Based Data Replication Within a Cluster
Requirements and Restrictions When Using Storage-Based Data Replication Within a Cluster
Manual Recovery Concerns When Using Storage-Based Data Replication Within a Cluster
Best Practices When Using Storage-Based Data Replication
5. Administering Global Devices, Disk-Path Monitoring, and Cluster File Systems
Overview of Administering Global Devices and the Global Namespace
Global Device Permissions for Solaris Volume Manager
Dynamic Reconfiguration With Global Devices
Veritas Volume Manager Administration Considerations
Administering Storage-Based Replicated Devices
Administering Hitachi TrueCopy Replicated Devices
How to Configure a Hitachi TrueCopy Replication Group
How to Configure DID Devices for Replication Using Hitachi TrueCopy
How to Verify a Hitachi TrueCopy Replicated Global Device Group Configuration
Example: Configuring a TrueCopy Replication Group for Oracle Solaris Cluster
Administering EMC Symmetrix Remote Data Facility Replicated Devices
How to Configure an EMC SRDF Replication Group
How to Configure DID Devices for Replication Using EMC SRDF
How to Verify EMC SRDF Replicated Global Device Group Configuration
Example: Configuring an SRDF Replication Group for Oracle Solaris Cluster
Overview of Administering Cluster File Systems
Cluster File System Restrictions
Guidelines to Support VxFS
Administering Device Groups
How to Update the Global-Devices Namespace
How to Change the Size of a
lofi
Device That Is Used for the Global-Devices Namespace
Migrating the Global-Devices Namespace
How to Migrate the Global-Devices Namespace From a Dedicated Partition to a
lofi
Device
How to Migrate the Global-Devices Namespace From a
lofi
Device to a Dedicated Partition
Adding and Registering Device Groups
How to Add and Register a Device Group (Solaris Volume Manager)
How to Add and Register a Device Group (Raw-Disk)
How to Add and Register a Replicated Device Group (ZFS)
How to Create a New Disk Group When Initializing Disks (Veritas Volume Manager)
Maintaining Device Groups
How to Remove and Unregister a Device Group (Solaris Volume Manager)
How to Remove a Node From All Device Groups
How to Remove a Node From a Device Group (Solaris Volume Manager)
How to Create a New Disk Group When Encapsulating Disks (Veritas Volume Manager)
How to Add a New Volume to an Existing Device Group (Veritas Volume Manager)
How to Convert an Existing Disk Group to a Device Group (Veritas Volume Manager)
How to Assign a New Minor Number to a Device Group (Veritas Volume Manager)
How to Register a Disk Group as a Device Group (Veritas Volume Manager)
How to Register Disk Group Configuration Changes (Veritas Volume Manager)
How to Convert a Local Disk Group to a Device Group (VxVM)
How to Convert a Device Group to a Local Disk Group (VxVM)
How to Remove a Volume From a Device Group (Veritas Volume Manager)
How to Remove and Unregister a Device Group (Veritas Volume Manager)
How to Add a Node to a Device Group (Veritas Volume Manager)
How to Remove a Node From a Device Group (Veritas Volume Manager)
How to Remove a Node From a Raw-Disk Device Group
How to Change Device Group Properties
How to Set the Desired Number of Secondaries for a Device Group
How to List a Device Group Configuration
How to Switch the Primary for a Device Group
How to Put a Device Group in Maintenance State
Administering the SCSI Protocol Settings for Storage Devices
How to Display the Default Global SCSI Protocol Settings for All Storage Devices
How to Display the SCSI Protocol of a Single Storage Device
How to Change the Default Global Fencing Protocol Settings for All Storage Devices
How to Change the Fencing Protocol for a Single Storage Device
Administering Cluster File Systems
How to Add a Cluster File System
How to Remove a Cluster File System
How to Check Global Mounts in a Cluster
Administering Disk-Path Monitoring
How to Monitor a Disk Path
How to Unmonitor a Disk Path
How to Print Failed Disk Paths
How to Resolve a Disk-Path Status Error
How to Monitor Disk Paths From a File
How to Enable the Automatic Rebooting of a Node When All Monitored Shared-Disk Paths Fail
How to Disable the Automatic Rebooting of a Node When All Monitored Shared-Disk Paths Fail
6. Administering Quorum
Administering Quorum Devices
Dynamic Reconfiguration With Quorum Devices
Adding a Quorum Device
How to Add a Shared Disk Quorum Device
How to Add a Sun NAS or Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage Systems NAS Quorum Device
How to Add a Network Appliance Network-Attached Storage (NAS) Quorum Device
How to Add a Quorum Server Quorum Device
Removing or Replacing a Quorum Device
How to Remove a Quorum Device
How to Remove the Last Quorum Device From a Cluster
How to Replace a Quorum Device
Maintaining Quorum Devices
How to Modify a Quorum Device Node List
How to Put a Quorum Device Into Maintenance State
How to Bring a Quorum Device Out of Maintenance State
How to List the Quorum Configuration
How to Repair a Quorum Device
Administering Oracle Solaris Cluster Quorum Servers
Overview of the Quorum Server Configuration File
Starting and Stopping the Quorum Server Software
How to Start a Quorum Server
How to Stop a Quorum Server
Displaying Information About the Quorum Server
How to Display Information About the Quorum Server
Cleaning Up Stale Quorum Server Cluster Information
How to Clean Up the Quorum Server Configuration Information
7. Administering Cluster Interconnects and Public Networks
Administering the Cluster Interconnects
Dynamic Reconfiguration With Cluster Interconnects
How to Check the Status of the Cluster Interconnect
How to Add Cluster Transport Cables, Transport Adapters, or Transport Switches
How to Remove Cluster Transport Cables, Transport Adapters, and Transport Switches
How to Enable a Cluster Transport Cable
How to Disable a Cluster Transport Cable
How to Determine a Transport Adapter's Instance Number
How to Change the Private Network Address or Address Range of an Existing Cluster
Administering the Public Network
How to Administer IP Network Multipathing Groups in a Cluster
Dynamic Reconfiguration With Public Network Interfaces
8. Adding and Removing a Node
Adding a Node to a Cluster
How to Add a Node to the Authorized Node List
Creating a Non-Voting Node (Zone) in a Global Cluster
How to Create a Non-Voting Node in a Global Cluster
Removing a Node From a Cluster
How to Remove a Node From a Zone Cluster
How to Remove a Node From the Cluster Software Configuration
How to Remove a Non-Voting Node (Zone) From a Global Cluster
How to Remove Connectivity Between an Array and a Single Node, in a Cluster With Greater Than Two-Node Connectivity
How to Correct Error Messages
9. Administering the Cluster
Overview of Administering the Cluster
How to Change the Cluster Name
How to Map Node ID to Node Name
How to Work With New Cluster Node Authentication
How to Reset the Time of Day in a Cluster
SPARC: How to Display the OpenBoot PROM (OBP) on a Node
How to Change the Node Private Hostname
How to Add a Private Hostname for a Non-Voting Node on a Global Cluster
How to Change the Private Hostname on a Non-Voting Node on a Global Cluster
How to Delete the Private Hostname for a Non-Voting Node on a Global Cluster
How to Rename a Node
How to Change the Logical Hostnames Used by Existing Oracle Solaris Cluster Logical Hostname Resources
How to Put a Node Into Maintenance State
How to Bring a Node Out of Maintenance State
Configuring Load Limits
How to Configure Load Limits on a Node
Performing Zone Cluster Administrative Tasks
How to Remove a Zone Cluster
How to Remove a File System From a Zone Cluster
How to Remove a Storage Device From a Zone Cluster
How to Uninstall Oracle Solaris Cluster Software From a Cluster Node
Troubleshooting a Node Uninstallation
Unremoved Cluster File System Entries
Unremoved Listing in Device Groups
Missing Uninstall Script
Creating, Setting Up, and Managing the Oracle Solaris Cluster SNMP Event MIB
How to Enable an SNMP Event MIB
How to Disable an SNMP Event MIB
How to Change an SNMP Event MIB
How to Enable an SNMP Host to Receive SNMP Traps on a Node
How to Disable an SNMP Host From Receiving SNMP Traps on a Node
How to Add an SNMP User on a Node
How to Remove an SNMP User From a Node
Troubleshooting
Running an Application Outside the Global Cluster
How to Take a Solaris Volume Manager Metaset From Nodes Booted in Noncluster Mode
Restoring a Corrupted Diskset
How to Save the Solaris Volume Manager Software Configuration
How to Purge the Corrupted Diskset
How to Recreate the Solaris Volume Manager Software Configuration
10. Configuring Control of CPU Usage
Introduction to CPU Control
Choosing a Scenario
Fair Share Scheduler
Configuring CPU Control
How to Control CPU Usage in the Voting Node on a Global Cluster
How to Control CPU Usage in a Global-Cluster Non-Voting Node With the Default Processor Set
How to Control CPU Usage in a Global-Cluster Non-Voting Node With a Dedicated Processor Set
11. Patching Oracle Solaris Cluster Software and Firmware
Overview of Patching Oracle Solaris Cluster
Oracle Solaris Cluster Patch Tips
Patching Oracle Solaris Cluster Software
How to Apply a Rebooting Patch (Node)
How to Apply a Rebooting Patch (Cluster)
How to Apply a Nonrebooting Oracle Solaris Cluster Patch
How to Apply Patches in Single-User Mode with Failover Nodes
Changing an Oracle Solaris Cluster Patch
How to Remove a Non-Rebooting Oracle Solaris Cluster Patch
How to Remove a Rebooting Oracle Solaris Cluster Patch
12. Backing Up and Restoring a Cluster
Backing Up a Cluster
How to Find File System Names to Back Up
How to Determine the Number of Tapes Needed for a Full Backup
How to Back Up the Root (
/
) File System
How to Perform Online Backups for Mirrors (Solaris Volume Manager)
How to Perform Online Backups for Volumes (Veritas Volume Manager)
How to Back Up the Cluster Configuration
Restoring Cluster Files
How to Restore Individual Files Interactively (Solaris Volume Manager)
How to Restore the Root (
/
) File System (Solaris Volume Manager)
How to Restore a Root (
/
) File System That Was on a Solaris Volume Manager Volume
How to Restore a Nonencapsulated Root (
/
) File System (Veritas Volume Manager)
How to Restore an Encapsulated Root (
/
) File System (Veritas Volume Manager)
13. Administering Oracle Solaris Cluster With the Graphical User Interfaces
Overview of Oracle Solaris Cluster Manager
SPARC: Overview of Sun Management Center
Configuring Oracle Solaris Cluster Manager
Setting up RBAC Roles
How to Use the Common Agent Container to Change the Port Numbers for Services or Management Agents
How to Change the Server Address for Oracle Solaris Cluster Manager
How to Regenerate Common Agent Container Security Keys
Starting the Oracle Solaris Cluster Manager Software
How to Start Oracle Solaris Cluster Manager
A. Example
Configuring Host-Based Data Replication With Sun StorageTek Availability Suite Software
Understanding Sun StorageTek Availability Suite Software in a Cluster
Data Replication Methods Used by Sun StorageTek Availability Suite Software
Remote Mirror Replication
Point-in-Time Snapshot
Replication in the Example Configuration
Guidelines for Configuring Host-Based Data Replication Between Clusters
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
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 Device Group on the Primary Cluster
How to Configure a 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
How to Provoke a Switchover
How to Update the DNS Entry
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