The Sun Cluster 3.1 - 3.2 With Sun StorEdge or StorageTek 9900 Series Storage Device Manual for Solaris OS provides procedures specific to Sun StorEdgeTM and Sun StorageTekTM 9900 Series storage devices that are placed in a SunTM Cluster environment.
Use this manual with any version of Sun Cluster 3.1 or 3.2 software. Unless otherwise noted, procedures are the same for all Sun Cluster 3.1 or 3.2 versions. See the Revision History for a list of changes to this manual.
This Sun Cluster release supports systems that use the SPARC® and x86 families of processor architectures: UltraSPARC, SPARC64, and AMD64. In this document, the label x86 refers to systems that use the AMD64 family of processor architectures.
The information in this document pertains to both platforms unless otherwise specified in a special chapter, section, note, bulleted item, figure, table, or example.
This book is for Sun representatives who are performing the initial installation of a Sun Cluster configuration and for system administrators who are responsible for maintaining the system.
This document is intended for experienced system administrators with extensive knowledge of Sun software and hardware. Do not use this document as a planning or a pre-sales guide. You should have already determined your system requirements and purchased the appropriate equipment and software before reading this document.
This book contains the following chapters.
Chapter 1, Installing and Configuring a Sun StorEdge or StorageTek 9900 Series Storage Array discusses how to install Sun StorEdge 9900 storage systems and how to configure logical units on Sun StorEdge 9900 storage systems.
Chapter 2, Installing Multipathing Software in a Sun StorEdge or StorageTek 9900 Series Storage Array discusses how to add multipathing software to Sun StorEdge 9900 storage systems.
Chapter 3, Maintaining a Sun StorEdge or StorageTek 9900 Series Storage Array discusses how to maintain Sun StorEdge 9900 storage systems in a running cluster.
The following table lists the information that has been revised or added since the initial release of this documentation. The table also lists the revision date for these changes.
Table P–1 Sun Cluster 3.1 - 3.2 With Sun StorEdge or StorageTek 9900 Series Storage Device Manual for Solaris OS
Revision Date |
New Information |
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February 2008 |
Chapter 1: added Sun StorageTek 9985V and 9990V to the list of 9900 Series storage arrays; updated steps in “How to Add a Storage Array to an Existing Cluster”; updated Step #3 in “How to Add a Logical Volume”. Chapter 2: removed “Installing Multipathing Software” section; updated Before You Begin section in “How to Add Sun StorEdge Traffic Manager Software”. Global: Renamed all chapters and book name to include StorageTek products. |
March 2008 |
Replaced outdated information about SunSolve with information about Sun Connection Update Manager. |
January 2009 |
Updated links in Preface to different versions of Sun Cluster documentation. |
The following books provide conceptual information or procedures to administer hardware and applications. If you plan to use this documentation in a hardcopy format, ensure that you have these books available for your reference.
The following Sun Cluster books support the Sun Cluster 3.1 and 3.2 releases. If you are maintaining a different version of Sun Cluster software, refer to the appropriate documentation. All Sun Cluster documentation is available at http://docs.sun.com. Documentation that is not available at http://docs.sun.com is listed with the appropriate URL.
Table P–2 Hardware Documentation
Title |
Part Number |
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Sun StorEdge Traffic Manager Installation and Configuration Guide Available on http://www.sun.com/products-n-solutions/hardware/docs |
817-3674 |
Table P–3 Sun Cluster Documentation
Documentation |
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This document contains information about commands that are used to install, configure, or upgrade a Sun Cluster configuration. This document might not contain complete information about basic UNIX® commands and procedures such as shutting down the system, booting the system, and configuring devices.
See one or more of the following sources for this information:
Online documentation for the SolarisTM Operating System (Solaris OS)
Other software documentation that you received with your system
Solaris Operating System man pages
If you have problems installing or using Sun Cluster, contact your service provider and provide the following information.
Your name and email address (if available)
Your company name, address, and phone number
The model number and serial number of your systems
The release number of the operating environment (for example, Solaris 10)
The release number of Sun Cluster (for example, Sun Cluster 3.2)
Use the following commands to gather information about your system for your service provider.
Command |
Function |
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prtconf -v |
Displays the size of the system memory and reports information about peripheral devices |
psrinfo -v |
Displays information about processors |
showrev -p |
Reports which patches are installed |
prtdiag -v |
Displays system diagnostic information |
/usr/cluster/bin/clnode show-rev/usr/cluster/bin/scinstall -pv |
Displays Sun Cluster release and package version information |
Also have available the contents of the /var/adm/messages file.
The Sun web site provides information about the following additional resources:
Sun is interested in improving its documentation and welcomes your comments and suggestions. To share your comments, go to http://docs.sun.com and click Feedback.
The following table describes the typographic conventions that are used in this book.
Table P–4 Typographic Conventions
Typeface |
Meaning |
Example |
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AaBbCc123 |
The names of commands, files, and directories, and onscreen computer output |
Edit your .login file. Use ls -a to list all files. machine_name% you have mail. |
AaBbCc123 |
What you type, contrasted with onscreen computer output |
machine_name% su Password: |
aabbcc123 |
Placeholder: replace with a real name or value |
The command to remove a file is rm filename. |
AaBbCc123 |
Book titles, new terms, and terms to be emphasized |
Read Chapter 6 in the User's Guide. A cache is a copy that is stored locally. Do not save the file. Note: Some emphasized items appear bold online. |
The following table shows the default UNIX system prompt and superuser prompt for the C shell, Bourne shell, and Korn shell.
Table P–5 Shell Prompts
Shell |
Prompt |
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C shell |
machine_name% |
C shell for superuser |
machine_name# |
Bourne shell and Korn shell |
$ |
Bourne shell and Korn shell for superuser |
# |