This section includes only restrictions and requirements that have a direct impact on the procedures in this chapter. For general support information, contact your Sun service provider.
This section describes the following requirements.
When you configure a Network Appliance NAS device, you must meet the following requirements.
Allow HTTP administrative access.
Sun Cluster uses the HTTP administrative access to support fencing. Sun Cluster automatically removes file system write permission for a node that has left the cluster, and grants file system write permission for a node that has just joined the cluster. These actions ensure that a node that departed the cluster can no longer modify data. You must have the administrator login and password. You need these items when you are configuring the device in the cluster.
Cluster nodes must be configured with Solaris Internet Protocol Multipathing (IPMP).
See IP Network Multipathing Administration Guide for details on configuring IPMP.
Ensure that the SUNWzlib package is available on your cluster.
The Network Appliance NAS device requires the SUNWzlib package to run on Sun Cluster. If you installed the End User Solaris Software Group on your cluster, you must add the SUNWzlib package using the pkgadd command.
# pkgadd SUNWzlib |
When exporting Network Appliance NAS directories for use with the cluster, you must use the form rw=nodename1;nodename2 to specify access to the directories. You make these entries in the exports file on the NAS device.
When you configure your Network Appliance NAS device for use with Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC), you must meet the following requirements.
You must configure the Network Appliance NAS device with fencing support in order to guarantee data integrity.
You must create a volume on each Network Appliance NAS device for storing Oracle database files, namely:
Data files
Control files
Online redo log files
Archived redo log files
You must create a quota tree (qtree) for the each directory in the following list:
The directory that contains Oracle data files for the cluster
The Oracle home directory that is to be mounted on each node
On each Network Appliance NAS device, you must add an entry to the /etc/exports file for the root of the volume that you created for storing Oracle database files.
You must ensure that the volume is exported without the nosuid option.
When adding the Network Appliance NAS directories to the cluster, ensure that the following mount options are set:
forcedirectio
noac
proto=tcp
The administrator has the option of deciding whether to use the Network Appliance NAS device as a quorum device.
When you use a Network Appliance NAS device as a quorum device, you must meet the following requirements.
You must configure an iSCSI LUN on the Network Appliance NAS device for use as the quorum device.
When booting the cluster, you must always boot the Network Appliance NAS device before you boot the cluster nodes.
If you boot devices in the wrong order, your nodes cannot find the quorum device. If a node should fail in this situation, your cluster might be unable to remain in service. If the cluster fails because the Network Appliance NAS quorum device was not available, bring up the NAS device. After that action completes, boot the cluster.
It is strongly recommended that you use a Network Appliance clustered filer. Clustered filers provide high availability with respect to the filer data and do not constitute a single point of failure in the cluster.
It is strongly recommended that you use the network time protocol (NTP) to synchronize time on the cluster nodes and the NAS device. Refer to your Network Appliance documentation for instructions about how to configure NTP on the NAS device. Select at least one NTP server for the NAS device that also serves the cluster nodes.
When configuring a Network Appliance NAS device as a quorum device, you can only add the quorum device when all cluster nodes are operating and communicating with the Network Appliance NAS device.
There is no fencing support for NFS-exported file systems from a NAS device when used in a non-global zone, including nodes of a zone cluster. Fencing support of Network Appliance NAS devices is only provided in global zones.