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InfoScale™ 9.0 Virtualization Guide - Solaris

Last Published: 2025-04-14

Product(s): InfoScale & Storage Foundation (9.0)

Platform: Solaris

Section I. Overview of InfoScale solutions in Solaris virtualization environments
1. Overview of InfoScale virtualization solutions
Section II. Zones
1. InfoScale Enterprise Solutions support for Solaris Native Zones
Section III. Oracle VM Server for SPARC
Section IV. Reference
1. Appendix A. Where to find more information

Configure network service groups

VCS agents manage network resources that are made available to a guest Logical Domain. Depending on the back-end storage device, use appropriate VCS agent. For more information, see Identify supported storage and network services.

Note:

You must configure a network service group on each physical system in the cluster.

Figure: shows network service groups in the control domain and alternate I/O domain

Perform the configuration steps for the network service group on each physical system.

Configuration parameter	Description
Localize network resource attribute	You may need to localize VCS resources depending on the back-end network device. For example, for disk agent, if the network device exported from control and alternate I/O domain are different, you need to localize the Device attribute. NIC primary1-network ( Device @primary = nxge3 Device @alternate = nxge4 )
Service group type	Service groups that manage network services in the control domain and alternate I/O domain must be configured as a parallel service group.
Configure the SystemList attribute	Modify the SystemList attribute in the service group to add host names of the control domain and alternate I/O domain configured on the physical system.
Configure Phantom resource	If all the resources are of the type NIC, configure a Phantom resource. The NIC resource is of the type OnOnly and does not contribute to determine the state of the service group. The Phantom resource enables VCS to determine the state of parallel service groups that do not include OnOff resources. For more information on the Phantom agent, refer to the Cluster Server Bundled Agents Reference Guide.

An example of network service group configuration from main.cf (for a setup that has two physical systems)

Control domain host names - primary1, primary2

Alternate domain host names - alternate1, alternate2

group primary1-nwsg (
        SystemList = { primary1 = 0, alternate1 = 1 }
        AutoStartList = { primary1, alternate1 }	
        Parallel = 1
        )

        NIC nicres1 (
                Device @primary1 = nxge3
                Device @alternate1 = nxge1
                )

        Phantom ph3 (
                )
group primary2-nwsg (
        SystemList = { primary2= 0, alternate2 = 1 }
        AutoStartList = { primary2, alternate2 }
        Parallel = 1
        )

        NIC  nicres2(
                Device @primary2= nxge3
                Device @alternate2 = nxge1
                )

        Phantom ph4 (
                )