Chapter 1Planning Your Installation
Plan the installation and configuration of your
cluster thoroughly to avoid setbacks and delays. Before you start to install
the software on your cluster, verify that you have the required installation
hardware and cluster hardware.
For information about planning your cluster and choosing the
method of installation, see the Netra High Availability Suite Foundation Services 2.1 6/03 Overview.
For information about the supported hardware, see the Netra High Availability Suite Foundation Services 2.1 6/03 Hardware Guide.
The Foundation Services product provides two ways of installing software
on the cluster:
Installation with the nhinstall tool. The nhinstall tool enables
you to install the Foundation Services on a cluster. This tool is flexible and provides
various configuration options that you can adapt to your requirements. However,
the nhinstall tool only supports the installation of master-eligible
nodes and diskless nodes. For more information, see Part II, Installing and Configuring Software on the Cluster Using the nhinstall Tool.
Manual installation. You can
manually install the software on a cluster that contains master-eligible nodes
and diskless nodes or dataless nodes.
Manual installation provides greater flexibility when installing components
of the Foundation Services. However, a manual installation can result in a cluster configuration
that is not easily reproducible on other clusters. For more information, see Part III, Manually Installing and Configuring the Software on the Cluster.
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