Setting up veritas cluster server on red hat enterprise linux for a robust. View or download agents and documentation about high availability ha agents according to agent type, application, release version, platform, and architecture. Sharply reduce expenses while maximizing application uptime by easily migrating your enterprise apps and data to the cloudon your terms. This oracle solaris cluster series articles will cover the build of a twonode cluster running solaris cluster 4. A range of support options that give you the flexibility to select the right amount of service for any size organization telephone andor webbased support that provides rapid response and. How to install veritas volume manager software oracle docs. Dear all, ive been asked to manage few asymmetric failover win 2003 systems with veritas cluster server installed. Veritas storage foundation and high availability sfha veritas storage foundation cluster file system sfcfs veritas storage foundation cluster file system and high availability sfcfsha veritas storage foundation for oracle rac sf oracle rac veritas volume manager vm veritas file system fs veritas cluster server vcs.
These components provide the performance and reliability that vcs requires. Installation of veritas cluster and volume managersfha. Because i have to limit the number of cpus to run oracle ebusiness suite and also i can install solaris 11 in the future on other guest domains, i was thinking of oracle vm server for sparc. Automatic download of installer hot fixes ifyouarerunningthe6. Veritas storage foundation and high availability solutions.
Strategy for data migration from veritas cluster to. Consider installing or upgrading to the latest version. Veritas infoscale availability now supports oracle solaris 11. High availability ha agents, documentation, pdfs, and. If you just run the veritas explorer,it will collect all their product. Download the oracle solaris cluster from oracle website. Veritas cluster server installation guide solaris 5.
Running vrtsexplorer to diagnose issues in the cluster. Download virtual datacenter cloud framework vdcf for oracle solaris. Installation of veritas cluster and volume managersfha unixarena. Veritas storage foundation and high availability ha solutions. If you want to include a service partition on the same disk as the oracle solaris partition, you must. This book documents guidelines and procedures for installing and configuring software on an oracle solaris cluster 3. First, copy the installation media to the vm node01. How do you start vcs cluster if its not started automatically after the server reboot.
On solaris 11, when you install the operating system together with sfha products using automated installer, the local installer scripts do not get generated 3640805 stopping the installer during an upgrade and then resuming the upgrade might freeze the service groups 2574731. For more information about zfs root support, see dynamic multipathing administrators guide. Vcs veritas cluster services beginners lesson cluster communications. Llt low latency transport provides fast, kerneltokernel communications, and monitors network connections.
Vdcf standard edition bundle sparc i386 for standard licences and subscription ha includes. In this third and final installment of the veritas cluster server to solaris cluster migration blog trilogy, youll find two case studies from actual migrations that have previously been completed. Perform this step if you encounter issues in your cluster environment that require professional support. The first boot after live upgrade to new version of solaris 11 and vxvm veritas volume manager takes long time. If you install the oracle solaris 10 8 11 os on a system that does not currently include a service or diagnostic partition, the installation program might not create a service partition by default. How to upgrade when running veritas vxvm oracle solaris. In my company im working with veritas cluster server, because its a historical thing. To use solaris 11 features vdcf has to be installed on a solaris 11. Home veritas vcs veritas storage foundation and high. Veritas infoscale availability does not support oracle solaris versions later than 11. Download the trialware from the symantec website which can be installed using the keyless licensing option. The vrtsspt package is included on the veritas software discs under the support.
If not just see how we can fix these kind of issues on veritas cluster. We developed a migration tool to take the scripts of a veritas cluster server agent and use them in solaris cluster. Do you know where i can download veritas volume manager for solaris. We had a number of customers where we performed the migration from veritas cluster server to solaris cluster. Chapter 5 installing and configuring veritas volume manager. Basepatch, vserver, ldom, resource management, monitoring. Beginners lesson veritas cluster services for system. Sun cluster aka oracle solaris cluster on hanskarri. How to install oracle solaris cluster on solaris 11. The following products make extensive use of the private cluster interconnects for distributed locking.
Vdcf is installed in the global zone of a solaris 11 server. Maintenance agreement resources if you want to contact symantec regarding an existing maintenance agreement, please contact the maintenance agreement administration team for your region. We recently transferred our samba server to a cluster of two sun systems running solaris 9 with veritas cluster server. When you migrate from veritas cluster server to solaris cluster, youll also have the opportunity to cut cost even more by switching its underlying volume manager and its file system to one of the free options built in solaris, like solaris volume manager and zfs. We can just plug in the veritas cluster server agent into solaris cluster. Cluster server on solaris, patch detail veritas services and. How to setup oracle solaris cluster on vmware workstation. When the system is up and running, run the installer command from the installation media to configure the veritas infoscale software. Solaris 11 image packaging system basics ips solaris 11 image packaging system basics ips1 the brief of new ips features and troubleshoot methods, installing and uninstalling the packages, checking the packages contents and package dependencies and package manifest basics and understanding the packages components. Veritas storage foundation cluster file system cfs veritas storage foundation for oracle rac sf oracle rac symantec recommends network switches for the cfs and the sf oracle rac clusters due to their performance characteristics. This is the first article about sun cluster aka oracle solaris cluster on unixarena.
January 31, 2014 by lingeswaran r leave a comment veritas explorer is a utility provided by symantec to collect the necessary system information along with their products veritas volume manager and veritas cluster information. Download symantec storage foundation with high availability 6. Heres is the second part on migrating from veritas cluster to solaris cluster as promised. Uncompress the patch that you downloaded from veritas. Support agreement resources if you want to contact symantec regarding an existing support agreement, please contact the support agreement administration team for your region as follows. This vm template is for use in oracle vm virtualbox, a crossplatform tool that runs on windows, linux, mac os x, and oracle solaris. Install and configure your local and multihost disks for veritas volume manager vxvm by using the procedures in this chapter, along with the planning information in planning volume management. Vrtsexplorer, also known as veritas explorer, is a tool provided by symantec to gather system and configuration information from a node to diagnose or analyze issues in the cluster. Download this patch and extract it to a directory 2. In the first part we will see how to download storage foundation package from. But i have some theoretical knowledge of sun cluster.
Used as either a storage target, optimizing data placement, or a platform for your applications, veritas infoscale plus the cloud forms an ideal, integrated platform to propel your business forward. Here we will see how to setup two solaris cluster on solaris 10 using vmware workstation. If the values shown are less than 6000 for solaris 10 and less than 8000 for solaris 11, you can expect a reboot after installation. The nfs mount agent was developed using the vpro agent framework version 3. Content is rated by the community, and members receive. Symantec cluster server release notes 11 important release information. If you want to install veritas cluster server along with veritas volume manager,choose sfha. Solaris 11 sparc packages affected by the patchvrtsvcs base product versions for the patch. Install solaris 10 update 11 on both the virtual machines. How do you troubleshoot if vcs cluster is not starting. Symantec s support offerings include the following. We have done the same setup on veritas cluster quite long time back. The release supports oracle solaris 11 x64 on both physical and virtual environments. Case studies to migrate from veritas cluster server to.
Installation of veritas cluster server vcs on two nodes. The intention of making the cluster will be configuring high availability local zone aka failover local zones. Migrating from veritas cluster server to solaris cluster. The cluster software will not be installed in the control domain. I have been asking this questions on the solaris interviews but most of them are fail to impress. Is there any intention for veritas to support solaris 11. Veritas cluster services third party cluster software works on different operating systems like solaris.
Veritas cluster server bundled agents reference guide solaris 6. You can create new account and login to download packages. The vpro agent framework, developed by veritas, is a set of libraries that. Foundation and the veritas cluster server are on veritas storage. Installation of veritas cluster and volume managersfha august 1, 2012 by lingeswaran r 12 comments in this post we will see how to install storage foundation high availability packages on two servers using the installer on vmware solaris guest operating systems. Installation and upgrade checklist report for vcs 6. The two options above are a complete rewrite of your agent and will take some time, but will lead to a pure solaris cluster configuration. Availablememory,diskspace,andnicinformation operatingsystem versionandpatchlevel networktopology router,gateway,andipaddressinformation problemdescription. Vcs uses two components, llt and gab, to share data over private networks among systems. High availability ha agents, documentation, pdfs, and downloads veritas. Beginners lesson veritas volume manager for solaris. This installation same on actual solaris physical servers and linux servers. Kernel zones are not supported by oracle vm virtualbox.