Overview of Installation Procedures

The Sun Cluster installation procedures have changed significantly from Solstice HA 1.3 and Sun Cluster 2.1. In Sun Cluster 2.2, the interactive command scinstall(1M) is used to install the software and to set up cluster components such as logical hosts and network interfaces.

For detailed installation procedures, see Chapter 3, "Installing and Configuring Sun Cluster Software," in the Sun Cluster 2.2 Software Installation Guide.

Generally, the steps to install and configure Sun Cluster are grouped into three procedures:

1. Preparing the administrative workstation and installing the client software.

   This entails installing the Solaris operating environment and Sun Cluster 2.2 client software on the administrative workstation.

2. Installing the server software.

   This includes using the Cluster Console to install the Solaris operating environment and Sun Cluster 2.2 software on all cluster nodes; using scinstall(1M) to set up network interfaces, logical hosts, and quorum devices; and selecting data services and volume manager support packages.

3. Configuring and bringing up the cluster.

   This includes setting up paths; installing patches; installing and configuring your volume manager, SCI, PNM backup groups, logical hosts, and data services; and bringing up the cluster.