How to Install Oracle Solaris Software
Perform the following tasks:
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Ensure that the hardware setup is complete and that connections are verified before you install Oracle Solaris software. See the Managing Hardware With Oracle Solaris Cluster 4.4 and your server and storage device documentation for details.
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Ensure that your cluster configuration planning is complete. See How to Prepare for Cluster Software Installation for requirements and guidelines.
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If you use a naming service, add address-to-name mappings for all public hostnames and logical addresses to any naming services that clients use for access to cluster services. See Public-Network IP Addresses for planning guidelines. See your Oracle Solaris system administrator documentation for information about using Oracle Solaris naming services.
Use this procedure to install the Oracle Solaris OS on the following systems, as applicable to your cluster configuration:
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(Optional) An administrative console that you will install with
pconsole
software. For more information, see How to Install pconsole Software on an Administrative Console. -
(Optional) A quorum server. For more information, see How to Install and Configure Oracle Solaris Cluster Quorum Server Software.
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Each node in the global cluster, if you will not use the
scinstall
custom Automated Installer method to install software. For more information about Automated Installer installation of a cluster, see How to Install and Configure Oracle Solaris and Oracle Solaris Cluster Software (IPS Repositories).If your nodes are already installed with the Oracle Solaris OS but do not meet Oracle Solaris Cluster installation requirements, you might need to reinstall the Oracle Solaris software. Follow the steps in this procedure to ensure subsequent successful installation of the Oracle Solaris Cluster software. See Planning the Oracle Solaris OS for information about required root-disk partitioning and other Oracle Solaris Cluster installation requirements.
Next Steps
If you want to use the pconsole
utility, go to How to Install pconsole Software on an Administrative Console.
If you want to use a quorum server, go to How to Install and Configure Oracle Solaris Cluster Quorum Server Software.
If your cluster nodes support the mirroring of internal hard drives and you want to configure internal disk mirroring, go to How to Configure Internal Disk Mirroring.
SPARC: If you want to install Oracle VM Server for SPARC, go to How to Install Oracle VM Server for SPARC Software and Create Domains.
Alternatively, to use the Oracle VM Server for SPARC template for Oracle Solaris Cluster to install and configure a cluster of guest domains or I/O domains, go to Establishing a New Logical-Domain Cluster by Deploying the Oracle VM Server for SPARC Template for Oracle Solaris Cluster. However, you cannot use this template to install and configure control domains as cluster nodes. Instead, follow software installation and configuration procedures as for a physical machine.
Otherwise, install the Oracle Solaris Cluster software on the cluster nodes.
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If you already installed the Oracle Solaris OS on the cluster nodes, go to How to Install Oracle Solaris Cluster Software (pkg) or How to Install Oracle Solaris Cluster Software Using Centralized Installer (clinstall).
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If you want to use the
scinstall
custom Automated Installer (AI) method to install both Oracle Solaris OS and Oracle Solaris Cluster software on the cluster nodes, go to How to Install and Configure Oracle Solaris and Oracle Solaris Cluster Software (IPS Repositories).
See Also
See the Administering an Oracle Solaris Cluster 4.4 Configuration for procedures to perform dynamic reconfiguration tasks in an Oracle Solaris Cluster configuration.