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Making Choices When Installing a Cluster |
Before installing the software on your cluster, choose a method of installation and the software for the nodes of your cluster, as described in this chapter.
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 7/05 Overview.
For information about the supported hardware, see the Netra High Availability Suite Foundation Services 2.1 7/05 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. For more information, see Chapter 2 and Chapter 3.
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 Chapter 4 through Chapter 7.
The Foundation Services run on a cluster installed with the Solaris Operating System.
For information about the Solaris versions supported on particular hardware, see the Netra High Availability Suite Foundation Services 2.1 7/05 Release Notes.
Install the Solaris Operating System and other supplementary software to enhance the reliability, availability, and serviceability of your cluster.
Install the following software on the nodes of the cluster:
Software included in the Solaris distribution
Sun StorEdge Network Data Replicator (SNDR) is part of the AVS software suite.
For information about supported software versions, see the Netra High Availability Suite Foundation Services 2.1 7/05 Release Notes.
Note - Some examples in this book only use IPv4 addresses, but IPv6 is supported. |
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