2.1 Configuration Planning Overview

Configuration planning includes making decisions about:

• The Administrative Workstation

• Cluster-specific names and naming conventions

• Network connections

• Volume management

• The Solaris operating environment

• Multihost disk requirements

• File system layout on the multihost disks

• Logical host configuration (HA configurations only)

• Cluster Configuration Database (CCD)

• Quorum device (SSVM and CVM only)

• Data migration strategy

• Multihost backup strategy

Before you develop your configuration plan, consider the reliability issues described in "2.5 Configuration Rules for Improved Reliability". Also, the Sun Cluster environment imposes some configuration restrictions that you should consider before completing your configuration plan. These are described in "2.6 Configuration Restrictions".

Appendix A, Configuration Worksheets and Examples, provides worksheets to help you plan your configuration.