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Chapter 4

Preparing to Install Standalone CGTP With the Reliable Boot Service

To provide standalone CGTP nodes with Reliable NFS and the Reliable Boot Service, install the Foundation Services on a two-node cluster. You can use the nhinstall tool, or manually install and configure both the standalone node and the cluster nodes.

The following sections describe the main requirements for the installation. For further information about the hardware and software requirements, see the Netra High Availability Suite Foundation Services 2.1 6/03 Custom Installation Guide.

For a list of the main hardware and software requirements, see the following sections:

Installation Server Requirements

You require an installation server to install the Foundation Services. An installation server enables you to install the Solaris operating system and the Foundation Services on the cluster by using the Solaris JumpStart™ software.

The installation server requires the following:

Hardware requirements

  • UltraSPARC® platform

  • Two network devices

    One network device is used to connect the installation server to an external network. The other network device is used to connect the installation server to the cluster network.

Operating system

Solaris

Software requirements

Perl Version 5, which is available with the Developer Solaris Software Group.

Disk capacity

Minimum 1.5 Gbytes for a Solaris software distribution

This size does not include applications that you might want to deploy on the cluster.

Free space

Minimum 1.5 Gbytes after the Solaris operating system has been installed

To connect the installation server to the cluster and the standalone nodes, see Connecting the Nodes.

Cluster Node Requirements

The hardware and software requirements for the two-node cluster to be installed with the Foundation Services are as follows:

Hardware requirements

  • Two Netra servers

    For example, Netra T1 servers.

  • Two Ethernet switches

  • A terminal server to manage the consoles

Operating system

Solaris 9

Software requirements

  • The Solaris distribution

  • The Foundation Services software distribution

Standalone Node Requirements

The hardware and software requirements for the diskless nodes to be installed with standalone CGTP are as follows:

Hardware requirements

  • Two Netra servers

    For example, Netra T1 servers.

  • Two Ethernet cards

Operating system

Solaris 9 operating system

Software requirements

The following CGTP packages and patches from the Foundation Services software distribution:

  • CGTP patches

    For exact patch numbers, see the Netra High Availability Suite Foundation Services 2.1 6/03 README.

  • SUNWnhtp9 package, CGTP kernel drivers and modules

  • SUNWnhtu9 package, CGTP user-space components, configuration scripts and files

  • SUNWnhdbs package, scripts to configure the routes for the standalone diskless nodes

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