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 […]
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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 […]
The ultimate Veritas Cluster Server (VCS) interview questions
Basics What are the different service group types ? Service groups can be one of the 3 type : 1. Failover – Service group runs on one system at a time. 2. Parallel – Service group runs on multiple systems simultaneously. 3. Hybrid – Used in replicated data clusters (disaster recovery setups). SG behaves as […]
VCS cluster 5.1 LAB using VMware workstation : Installing VCS
Now comes the last step in this series to create a VCS LAB. We need to copy the installation media to one of the VMs. We would use shared folder feature of VMware workstation to copy the install media into the node geek01. To enable sharing goto VM > Settings . On the options tab […]
VCS cluster 5.1 LAB using VMware workstation : Configuring openfiler
In the last post we have installed the openfiler virtual machine. Let us now configure the openfiler to assign iscsi LUNs to the two solaris 10 virtual machines. Login to the web interface using below credentials Management Interface: https://10.10.10.10:446 Administrator Username: openfiler Administrator Password: password Enabling iSCSI services and adding network Access configuration First step […]
VCS cluster 5.1 LAB using VMware workstation : Installing openfiler
To configure a shared storage for this setup we’ll be using openfiler. We need to create an openfiler VM with 512 MB RAM and 3 Disks of 500 MB for I/O fencing. Also to install the openfiler OS we need a 10GB HDD. Click on the create new virtual machine icon from home screen to […]
VCS cluster 5.1 LAB using VMware workstation : Installing solaris
In the last part we went through the overall setup for this home LAB. Lets now dive into installing the two solaris virtual machines. Before we start creating the virtual machines, we need to setup the 2 networks (one for connecting the VMs from outside and one for openfiler storage). 192.168.1.0/255.255.255.0 – Connecting the VMs […]
VCS cluster 5.1 LAB using VMware workstation : The Setup
I always wanted to have my own VCS cluster LAB where I could do my RnD. Which is generally not possible in the production setup (off course !). So I decided to build this awesome home LAB with VMWare workstation on my laptop. Note : The software iSCSI software used for this setup does not […]
How to add/remove Low/High priority LLT links in VCS online
It’s sometimes a requirement to add a new high or low priority link to the existing LLT links. This can be done online without affecting any of the cluster services. There are 2 ways to do the same online (without offlining any service group). 1. Method 1 (using lltconfig) 2. Method 2 (editing /etc/llttab and […]