If you have followed the first 4 posts of this series then you are ready to install the SFHA on the 2 nodes. We would also configure the I/O fencing using the installer. Unlike older version the I/O fencing can be configured with the help of installer. We don’t even have to initialize the disks […]
Archives for August 2015
VCS cluster 6.2 LAB : Configuring Open-E DSS
In the last post we installed the Open-e DSS V7 Lite software. Let us now configure it in order to provision iSCSI storage for the 2 VM nodes of the cluster. Creating iSCSI volume We have allocated four 10Gb HDD for the VM. One out of this is used for the OS installation of Open-e […]
VCS cluster 6.2 LAB : Installing Open-E DSS
One of the most important components of this lab setup is the shared storage. I will be using the software Open-E DSS V7 lite version for the setup. The lite and the professional version software are the same except when we register the software we do it using the free key provided. The lite version […]
VCS cluster 6.2 LAB : Installing and configuring OEL
Installing the 2 nodes of the cluster The first step in the setup is to prepare the 2 nodes of the cluster. I have used Oracle enterprise linux 6.6 for the setup. You can use any OS of your choice supported by symantec. The VMs configuration is as follows : HDD – 20GB RAM – […]
VCS cluster 6.2 LAB with working I/O fencing : The setup
In one of my older posts I have configured VCS cluster home lab. The setup works fine but without I/O fencing configured. The setup configured in this series of posts has a working I/O fencing. The difference being the use of a different software iSCSI software – Open-E DSS V7 lite version. The other software […]