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What is high availability and cluster? VCS Communication Mechanism VCS Architecture and Agent Monitoring Fail Over Configurations Installation of Veritas Cluster Server in Unix platforms
Sample Cluster
HA Management software
Site replication Fault detection, notification, and failover Storage management Backup and recovery
Redundant Hardware
Power supplies Network interface cards, hubs, switches storage
Resource Types
General description of the attributes of a resource such as disks, IP, applications, databases Predefined resource types: Mount, Share, IP, NIC Resource Types have inherent interdependencies IP resource type depends on the NIC resource type New resource types can be created as required
Agents
Processes that control resources One agent per resource type Agent controls all resources of that type New agents can be added apart from predefined agents
Dependencies
The order in which VCS brings the resources and service groups online or offline Parent resource depends on child resource for example Mount depends on Disk Dependencies are homogenous, for example Service group cant depend on a resource
VCS components
nic
192.1.1.1
192.1.1.1
Asymmetric Failover
192.1.1.1
192.1.1.2
192.1.1.2
192.1.1.1
Symmetric Failover
N to 1 failover
SG Web SG Oracle
NBU
SG
SG Oracle
Multi Node / Multi Group Clusters Unlimited numbers of resource (service) groups Migrate RG without affecting other RGs Cascading failover Policy based failover - load distribution Attribute based RGs Easy start, stop and migration of resource groups - GUI
Environment variables
PATH=$PATH:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/opt/VRTSvcs/bin MANPATH=$MANPATH:/opt/VRTS/man export $PATH, $MANPATH
Installvcs options
-installonly -> Only licensing & installation of VCS software -configonly -> creates configuration files without performing installation -configfile -> unattended installation using VCSvars.pm file
Installation parameters
Cluster Name Cluster Number : 0 to 255, Avoid 0 as its default System Names (host name) Network interfaces identified for VCS private network Web console configuration Virtual IP, Subnet mask and Network interface. ClusterService servicegroup is created SMTP/SNMP notification configuration
Starting VCS
hastart command starts the had and hashadow processes had checks for active configuration in private network otherwise it loads the configuration from disk. Node-1 starts had & hashadow processes on second node and process is repeated until all members have identical copies.
References : Symantec Tech notes & VCS Admin Guide 5.0 http://www.symantec.com/connect/forums/top-technotes-veritascluster-server-updated-march-2012 http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=content &id=DOC5492 https://sort.symantec.com/public/documents/sf/5.0/solaris/pdf/vcs _users.pdf