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Veritas™ Cluster Server Installation Guide Solaris 5.0 N18534F Veritas Cluster Server Installation Guide Copyright © 2006 Symantec Corporation. All rights reserved. Veritas Cluster Server 5.0 Symantec, the Symantec logo, Veritas are trademarks or registered trademarks of Symantec Corporation or its affiliates in the U.S. and other countries. Other names may be trademarks of their respective owners. The product described in this document is distributed under licenses restricting its use, copying, distribution, and decompilation/reverse engineering. No part of this document may be reproduced in any form by any means without prior written authorization of Symantec Corporation and its licensors, if any. 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Contents Chapter 1 Introducing VCS About VCS .............................................................................................................15 VCS basics .............................................................................................................15 Multiple nodes ..............................................................................................16 Shared storage ..............................................................................................16 LLT and GAB .................................................................................................17 Network channels for heartbeating ..........................................................18 Preexisting network partitions ..................................................................18 VCS seeding ...........................................................................................18 Chapter 2 Preparing to install and configure VCS About preparing to install VCS 5.0 ....................................................................21 About VCS 5.0 features .......................................................................................22 Symantec Product Authentication Service ..............................................22 Veritas Cluster Management Console .......................................................25 SMTP email notification for VCS events ..................................................27 SNMP trap notification for VCS events ....................................................27 Global clusters using VCS ...........................................................................28 I/O fencing ....................................................................................................28 Preparing to install VCS 5.0 ...............................................................................28 Hardware requirements ..............................................................................30 Supported operating systems ....................................................................31 Supported software .....................................................................................31 Supported software for the Veritas Cluster Management Console ......31 Supported browsers for the Cluster Management Console ...........................................................................................33 Installing root broker for Symantec Product Authentication Service .......................................................................34 Creating encrypted files for Symantec Product Authentication Service .......................................................................35 Installing the management server for the Veritas Cluster Management Console ..........................................................................38 Installing the management server on Solaris .................................38 Installing the management server on Windows 2003 systems ....41 6 Contents Copying the VCS installation guide and release notes to each node .................................................................................. 43 Accessing Cluster Management Console information ................... 43 Performing pre-installation tasks ..................................................................... 44 Setting the PATH variable .......................................................................... 45 Setting the MANPATH variable ................................................................ 45 Setting up the private network .................................................................. 45 Using network switches ...................................................................... 47 Setting up shared storage ........................................................................... 47 Setting up shared storage: SCSI disks .............................................. 47 Setting up shared storage: Fibre channel ........................................ 49 Disabling the abort sequence on SPARC systems ................................... 50 Enabling communication between systems .......................................... 50 Optimizing LLT media speed settings on private NICs .......................... 51 Guidelines for setting the media speed of the LLT interconnects ...... 51 Setting up ssh on cluster systems ............................................................. 51 Configuring ssh .................................................................................... 52 Obtaining VCS license keys ........................................................................ 54 Patches required for Java Run Time environment from Sun ............... 54 Mounting the product disc ......................................................................... 55 Getting your VCS installation and configuration information ready ........................................................................................ 55 Optional VCS packages ............................................................................... 59 Chapter 3 Installing and configuring VCS About installing and configuring VCS .............................................................. 61 About the VCS installation program ............................................................... 62 Optional features of the installvcs program ........................................... 62 Interacting with the installvcs program .................................................. 63 Installing and configuring VCS 5.0 ................................................................... 63 Overview of tasks ......................................................................................... 64 Checking the systems for installation ...................................................... 65 Starting the software installation ............................................................. 66 Specifying systems for installation ........................................................ 67 Licensing VCS ............................................................................................... 67 Choosing VCS packages ........................................................................... 68 Choosing to install VCS packages or configure VCS .............................. 69 Configuring the cluster ............................................................................... 69 Configuring the cluster in secure mode ................................................... 70 Adding VCS users ........................................................................................ 72 Configuring cluster connector .................................................................. 72 Configuring the Cluster Management Console ....................................... 73 Configuring SMTP email notification ...................................................... 74 Contents 7 Configuring SNMP trap notification .........................................................76 Configuring global clusters ........................................................................77 Installing the VCS packages .......................................................................78 Creating VCS configuration