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InfoScale™ 9.0 Storage Foundation Cluster File System High Availability Configuration and Upgrade Guide - Solaris
Last Published:
2025-04-21
Product(s):
InfoScale & Storage Foundation (9.0)
Platform: Solaris
- Section I. Introduction to SFCFSHA
- Introducing Storage Foundation Cluster File System High Availability
- Section II. Configuration of SFCFSHA
- Preparing to configure
- Preparing to configure SFCFSHA clusters for data integrity
- About planning to configure I/O fencing
- Setting up the CP server
- Planning your CP server setup
- Installing the CP server using the installer
- Configuring the CP server cluster in secure mode
- Setting up shared storage for the CP server database
- Configuring the CP server using the installer program
- Configuring the CP server manually
- Verifying the CP server configuration
- Configuring SFCFSHA
- Overview of tasks to configure SFCFSHA using the product installer
- Starting the software configuration
- Specifying systems for configuration
- Configuring the cluster name
- Configuring private heartbeat links
- Configuring the virtual IP of the cluster
- Configuring SFCFSHA in secure mode
- Configuring a secure cluster node by node
- Adding VCS users
- Configuring SMTP email notification
- Configuring SNMP trap notification
- Configuring global clusters
- Completing the SFCFSHA configuration
- About the License Audit Tool
- Verifying and updating licenses on the system
- Configuring SFDB
- Configuring SFCFSHA clusters for data integrity
- Setting up disk-based I/O fencing using installer
- Setting up server-based I/O fencing using installer
- Setting up non-SCSI-3 I/O fencing in virtual environments using installer
- Setting up majority-based I/O fencing using installer
- Enabling or disabling the preferred fencing policy
- Performing an automated SFCFSHA configuration using response files
- Performing an automated I/O fencing configuration using response files
- Configuring I/O fencing using response files
- Response file variables to configure disk-based I/O fencing
- Sample response file for configuring disk-based I/O fencing
- Configuring CP server using response files
- Response file variables to configure server-based I/O fencing
- Sample response file for configuring server-based I/O fencing
- Response file variables to configure non-SCSI-3 I/O fencing
- Sample response file for configuring non-SCSI-3 I/O fencing
- Response file variables to configure majority-based I/O fencing
- Sample response file for configuring majority-based I/O fencing
- Manually configuring SFCFSHA clusters for data integrity
- Setting up disk-based I/O fencing manually
- Setting up server-based I/O fencing manually
- Preparing the CP servers manually for use by the SFCFSHA cluster
- Generating the client key and certificates manually on the client nodes
- Configuring server-based fencing on the SFCFSHA cluster manually
- Configuring CoordPoint agent to monitor coordination points
- Verifying server-based I/O fencing configuration
- Setting up non-SCSI-3 fencing in virtual environments manually
- Setting up majority-based I/O fencing manually
- Section III. Upgrade of SFCFSHA
- Planning to upgrade SFCFSHA
- About the upgrade
- Supported upgrade paths
- Transitioning between the InfoScale products
- Considerations for upgrading SFCFSHA to 9.0 on systems configured with an Oracle resource
- Preparing to upgrade SFCFSHA
- Considerations for upgrading REST server
- Using Install Bundles to simultaneously install or upgrade full releases (base, maintenance, rolling patch), and individual patches
- Performing a full upgrade of SFCFSHA using the installer
- Performing a rolling upgrade of SFCFSHA
- Performing a phased upgrade of SFCFSHA
- About phased upgrade
- Performing a phased upgrade using the product installer
- Moving the service groups to the second subcluster
- Upgrading the operating system on the first subcluster
- Upgrading the SFCFSHA stack on the first subcluster
- Preparing the second subcluster
- Activating the first subcluster
- Upgrading the operating system on the second subcluster
- Upgrading the second subcluster
- Completing the phased upgrade
- Performing an automated SFCFSHA upgrade using response files
- Upgrading Volume Replicator
- Upgrading VirtualStore
- Upgrading SFCFSHA using Boot Environment upgrade
- Performing post-upgrade tasks
- Planning to upgrade SFCFSHA
- Section IV. Post-configuration tasks
- Section V. Configuration of disaster recovery environments
- Section VI. Adding and removing nodes
- Adding a node to SFCFSHA clusters
- About adding a node to a cluster
- Before adding a node to a cluster
- Adding a node to a cluster using the Veritas InfoScale installer
- Adding the node to a cluster manually
- Starting Veritas Volume Manager (VxVM) on the new node
- Configuring cluster processes on the new node
- Setting up the node to run in secure mode
- Starting fencing on the new node
- After adding the new node
- Configuring Cluster Volume Manager (CVM) and Cluster File System (CFS) on the new node
- Configuring the ClusterService group for the new node
- Adding a node using response files
- Configuring server-based fencing on the new node
- Adding nodes to a cluster that is using authentication for SFDB tools
- Updating the Storage Foundation for Databases (SFDB) repository after adding a node
- Sample configuration file for adding a node to the cluster
- Removing a node from SFCFSHA clusters
- About removing a node from a cluster
- Removing a node from a cluster
- Modifying the VCS configuration files on existing nodes
- Modifying the Cluster Volume Manager (CVM) configuration on the existing nodes to remove references to the deleted node
- Removing the node configuration from the CP server
- Removing security credentials from the leaving node
- Updating the Storage Foundation for Databases (SFDB) repository after removing a node
- Sample configuration file for removing a node from the cluster
- Adding a node to SFCFSHA clusters
- Section VII. Configuration and Upgrade reference
- Appendix A. Installation scripts
- Appendix B. Configuration files
- Appendix C. Configuring the secure shell or the remote shell for communications
- About configuring secure shell or remote shell communication modes before installing products
- Manually configuring passwordless ssh
- Setting up ssh and rsh connection using the installer -comsetup command
- Setting up ssh and rsh connection using the pwdutil.pl utility
- Restarting the ssh session
- Enabling and disabling rsh for Solaris
- Appendix D. High availability agent information
- Appendix E. Sample SFCFSHA cluster setup diagrams for CP server-based I/O fencing
- Appendix F. Reconciling major/minor numbers for NFS shared disks
- Appendix G. Configuring LLT over UDP
- Using the UDP layer for LLT
- Manually configuring LLT over UDP using IPv4
- Broadcast address in the /etc/llttab file
- The link command in the /etc/llttab file
- The set-addr command in the /etc/llttab file
- Selecting UDP ports
- Configuring the netmask for LLT
- Configuring the broadcast address for LLT
- Sample configuration: direct-attached links
- Sample configuration: links crossing IP routers
- Using the UDP layer of IPv6 for LLT
- Manually configuring LLT over UDP using IPv6
Sample response file for adding a node to a SFCFSHA cluster
The following example shows a response file for adding a node to a SFCFSHA cluster.
our %CFG;
$CFG{clustersystems}=[ qw(sys1) ];
$CFG{newnodes}=[ qw(sys5) ];
$CFG{opt}{addnode}=1;
$CFG{opt}{configure}=1;
$CFG{opt}{vr}=1;$CFG{prod}=" ENTERPRISE90";$CFG{systems}=[ qw(sys1 sys5) ];
$CFG{vcs_allowcomms}=1;
$CFG{vcs_clusterid}=101;
$CFG{vcs_clustername}="clus1";
$CFG{vcs_lltlink1}{sys5}="bge1";
$CFG{vcs_lltlink2}{sys5}="bge2";
1;