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Chapter 1 Planning the Oracle Solaris Cluster Configuration

Finding Oracle Solaris Cluster Installation Tasks

Planning the Oracle Solaris OS

Guidelines for Selecting Your Oracle Solaris Installation Method

Oracle Solaris OS Feature Requirements and Restrictions

System Disk Partitions

Volume Management Software

Planning the Oracle Solaris Cluster Environment

Oracle Solaris Cluster Software Version

Public-Network IP Addresses

Console-Access Devices

Public Network Configuration

Quorum Server Configuration

NFS Guidelines

Service Restrictions

Network Time Protocol (NTP)

Oracle Solaris Cluster Configurable Components

Global-Cluster Name

Global-Cluster Node Names and Node IDs

Private Network Configuration

SPARC: Guidelines for Oracle VM Server for SPARC in a Cluster

Zone Clusters

Global-Cluster Requirements and Guidelines

Zone-Cluster Requirements and Guidelines

Guidelines for Trusted Extensions in a Zone Cluster

Planning Global Devices, Device Groups, and Cluster File Systems

Planning Global Devices

Planning Device Groups

Planning Cluster File Systems

Choosing Mount Options for UFS Cluster File Systems

UFS Cluster File Systems

Mount Information for Cluster File Systems

Planning Volume Management

Guidelines for Volume Manager Software

Guidelines for Solaris Volume Manager Software

UFS Cluster File System Logging

Mirroring Guidelines

Guidelines for Mirroring Multihost Disks

Guidelines for Mirroring the ZFS Root Pool

Chapter 2 Installing Software on Global-Cluster Nodes

Overview of Installing the Software

Installation Considerations

Installing the Software

How to Prepare for Cluster Software Installation

How to Install Oracle Solaris Software

How to Install pconsole Software on an Administrative Console

How to Install and Configure Oracle Solaris Cluster Quorum Server Software

How to Configure Internal Disk Mirroring

SPARC: How to Install Oracle VM Server for SPARC Software and Create Domains

How to Install Oracle Solaris Cluster Software Packages

How to Install the Availability Suite Feature of the Oracle Solaris Software

How to Install Sun QFS Software

How to Set Up the Root Environment

How to Configure IP Filter

Chapter 3 Establishing the Global Cluster

Overview of Establishing a New Cluster or Cluster Node

Establishing a New Global Cluster or New Global-Cluster Node

Configuring Oracle Solaris Cluster Software on All Nodes (scinstall)

How to Configure Oracle Solaris Cluster Software on All Nodes (scinstall)

How to Configure Oracle Solaris Cluster Software on All Nodes (XML)

Establishing a New Oracle Solaris Cluster With the Automated Installer

How to Install and Configure Oracle Solaris and Oracle Solaris Cluster Software (IPS Repositories)

How to Install and Configure Oracle Solaris and Oracle Solaris Cluster Software (Unified Archives)

How to Replicate a Cluster from the Unified Archives

How to Prepare the Cluster for Additional Global-Cluster Nodes

How to Change the Private Network Configuration When Adding Nodes or Private Networks

Configuring Oracle Solaris Cluster Software on Additional Global-Cluster Nodes (scinstall)

How to Configure Oracle Solaris Cluster Software on Additional Global-Cluster Nodes (scinstall)

How to Configure Oracle Solaris Cluster Software on Additional Global-Cluster Nodes (XML File)

How to Update Quorum Devices After Adding a Node to a Global Cluster

How to Configure Quorum Devices

How to Verify the Quorum Configuration and Installation Mode

How to Change Private Hostnames

Configuring Network Time Protocol (NTP)

How to Use Your Own /etc/inet/ntp.conf File

How to Install NTP After Adding a Node to a Single-Node Cluster

How to Update NTP After Changing a Private Hostname

How to Validate the Cluster

How to Record Diagnostic Data of the Cluster Configuration

Chapter 4 Configuring Solaris Volume Manager Software

Configuring Solaris Volume Manager Software

How to Install Solaris Volume Manager

How to Create State Database Replicas

Creating Disk Sets in a Cluster

How to Create a Disk Set

Adding Drives to a Disk Set

How to Add Drives to a Disk Set

How to Repartition Drives in a Disk Set

How to Create an md.tab File

How to Activate Volumes

Configuring Dual-String Mediators

Requirements for Dual-String Mediators

How to Add Mediator Hosts

How to Check For and Fix Bad Mediator Data

Chapter 5 Creating a Cluster File System

Creating Cluster File Systems

How to Create Cluster File Systems

Creating Oracle ACFS File Systems

Sample Configurations of an Oracle ACFS File System

How to Register and Configure the Framework Resource Groups

How to Create an Oracle ACFS File System

How to Register and Configure the Scalable Device-Group Resource Group

How to Register and Configure the Oracle ASM Resource Group

How to Register and Configure the Oracle ACFS Proxy Resource Group

How to Create an Oracle Grid Infrastructure Resource for Interoperation With Oracle Solaris Cluster

Chapter 6 Creating Zone Clusters

Overview of Creating and Configuring a Zone Cluster

Creating and Configuring a Zone Cluster

Creating a Zone Cluster

How to Install and Configure Trusted Extensions

How to Create a Zone Cluster (clsetup)

How to Configure a Zone Cluster to Use Trusted Extensions

Adding File Systems to a Zone Cluster

How to Add a Highly Available Local File System to a Zone Cluster (clsetup)

How to Add a Highly Available Local File System to a Zone Cluster (CLI)

How to Add a ZFS Storage Pool to a Zone Cluster (clsetup)

How to Add a ZFS Storage Pool to a Zone Cluster (CLI)

How to Add a Cluster File System to a Zone Cluster (clsetup)

How to Add a UFS Cluster File System to a Zone Cluster (CLI)

How to Add a Sun QFS Shared File System to a Zone Cluster (CLI)

How to Add an Oracle ACFS File System to a Zone Cluster (CLI)

Adding Local File Systems to a Specific Zone-Cluster Node

How to Add a Local File System to a Specific Zone-Cluster Node (CLI)

How to Add a Local ZFS Storage Pool to a Specific Zone-Cluster Node (CLI)

Adding Storage Devices to a Zone Cluster

How to Add a Global Storage Device to a Zone Cluster (clsetup)

How to Add a DID Device to a Zone Cluster (CLI)

How to Add a Disk Set to a Zone Cluster (CLI)

How to Add a Raw-Disk Device to a Specific Zone-Cluster Node (CLI)

Chapter 7 Uninstalling Software From the Cluster

Uninstalling the Software

How to Unconfigure Oracle Solaris Cluster Software to Correct Installation Problems

How to Uninstall Oracle Solaris Cluster Quorum Server Software

How to Unconfigure a Zone Cluster

How to Uninstall the Availability Suite Feature of the Oracle Solaris Software

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This section provides the following guidelines for planning Oracle Solaris software installation in a cluster configuration:

Guidelines for Selecting Your Oracle Solaris Installation Method
Oracle Solaris OS Feature Requirements and Restrictions
System Disk Partitions

For more information about Oracle Solaris software, see your Oracle Solaris installation documentation.