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Oracle Solaris Cluster Hardware Administration Manual Oracle Solaris Cluster 4.0 |
1. Introduction to Oracle Solaris Cluster Hardware
2. Installing and Configuring the Terminal Concentrator
3. Installing Cluster Interconnect Hardware and Configuring VLANs
Interconnect Requirements and Restrictions
Cluster Interconnect and Routing
Cluster Interconnect Speed Requirements
Ethernet Switch Configuration When in the Cluster Interconnect
Requirements When Using Jumbo Frames
Requirements and Restrictions When Using InfiniBand in the Cluster Interconnect
Installing Ethernet or InfiniBand Cluster Interconnect Hardware
How to Install Ethernet or InfiniBand Transport Cables and Transport Junctions
Configuring VLANs as Private Interconnect Networks
4. Maintaining Cluster Interconnect Hardware
5. Installing and Maintaining Public Network Hardware
6. Maintaining Platform Hardware
7. Campus Clustering With Oracle Solaris Cluster Software
This section contains requirements on interconnect operation when using certain special features.
Heartbeat packets that are sent over the cluster interconnect are not IP based. As a result, these packets cannot be routed. If you install a router between two cluster nodes that are connected through cluster interconnects, heartbeat packets cannot find their destination. Your cluster consequently fails to work correctly.
To ensure that your cluster works correctly, you must set up the cluster interconnect in the same layer 2 (data link) network and in the same broadcast domain. The cluster interconnect must be located in the same layer 2 network and broadcast domain even if the cluster nodes are located in different, remote data centers. Cluster nodes that are arranged remotely are described in more detail in Chapter 7, Campus Clustering With Oracle Solaris Cluster Software.
An interconnect path is one network step in the cluster private network: from a node to a node, from a node to a switch, or from the switch to another node. Each path in your cluster interconnect must use the same networking technology.
All interconnect paths must also operate at the same speed. This means, for example, that if you are using Ethernet components that are capable of operating at different speeds, and if your cluster configuration does not allow these components to automatically negotiate a common network speed, you must configure them to operate at the same speed.
When configuring Ethernet switches for your cluster private interconnect, disable the spanning tree algorithm on ports that are used for the interconnect
If you use Scalable Data Services and jumbo frames on your public network, ensure that the Maximum Transfer Unit (MTU) of the private network is the same size or larger than the MTU of your public network.
Note - Scalable services cannot forward public network packets that are larger than the MTU size of the private network. The scalable services application instances will not receive those packets.
Consider the following information when configuring jumbo frames:
The maximum MTU size for an InfiniBand interface is typically less than the maximum MTU size for an Ethernet interface.
If you use switches in your private network, ensure they are configured to the MTU sizes of the private network interfaces.
For information about how to configure jumbo frames, see the documentation that shipped with your network interface card. See your Oracle Solaris OS documentation or contact your Oracle sales representative for other Oracle Solaris restrictions.
The following requirements and guidelines apply to Oracle Solaris Cluster configurations that use InfiniBand adapters:
A two-node cluster must use InfiniBand switches. You cannot directly connect the InfiniBand adapters to each other.
Oracle's Sun InfiniBand switches support up to nine nodes in a cluster.
Jumbo frames are not supported on a cluster that uses InfiniBand adapters.
If only one InfiniBand adapter is installed on a cluster node, each of its two ports must be connected to a different InfiniBand switch.
If two InfiniBand adapters are installed in a cluster node, leave the second port on each adapter unused. For example, connect port 1 on HCA 1 to switch 1 and connect port 1 on HCA 2 to switch 2.
VLANs are not supported on a cluster that uses InfiniBand switches.