Cluster of CMS in Solaris

Please guide me to create cluster of CMS in solaris.
Some document and tips will be of great help...
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Cluster 3.2 for Solaris 8

Hi All,
Please let me know Sun Cluster 3.2 support Solaris 8.
Regards,
R. Rajesh Kannan.

Solaris Operating System (OS) � Sun Cluster 3.2 software and Quorum Server software requires the following minimum versions of the Solaris OS:
Solaris 9 � Solaris 9 9/05 SPARC only.
Solaris 10 � Solaris 10 11/06.

Cluster 2.2 and solaris 8

can we run cluster 2.2 with solaris 8 ???
thanks

Hi,
The Sun Cluster 2.2 4/00 Release is having support for Solaris 8.
Hope this helps.
Thanks,
Gopinath
Sun DTS.

Upgrade from Solaris 8 SPARC with Sun cluster 3.1u3 to Solaris 10 SPARC

Dear All,
We are planning an upgrade of the OS from Solaris 8 SPARC to Solaris 10 SPARC on a two-node active-standby clustered system.
The current major software we have on the Solaris 8 system are:
1: Sun Cluster 3.1u3
2: Oracle 9i 9.2.0.8
3: Veritas File System Vxfs v4.0
4: Sun Solaris 8 2/04 SPARC
Any pointers as to what sequence and how the upgrade should be done?
Thanks in advance.
Regards,
Ray

yes I know it can be quite complicated and complex, but Sun provided us with a detailed documentation, at least in our case Solaris 9 to 10 it was very helpful.
You might get better help in the cluster forum http://forums.sun.com/forum.jspa?forumID=842
-- Nick

Sun cluster 3.1 on Solaris 10 update1

Hi All,
Good day !!!
I am trying to build Sun Cluster 3.1 on Sun Solaris 10 update1 operating system.
I am using sun V240 servers. If i plumb bge1 and bge2 the second
and third interface and reboot the server system is not comming up.
it promts error saying "init" failed and it stops responding.
Also if i create /etc/defaultrouter file and put gateway system is not comming up.
Kindly let me know weather solaris 10 update1 is support for cluster or not.
Thanks,
nagaraju

Hi, I am not sure what your network setup looks like but I assume that you have configured your first port as the public network. You do not need to touch any other interface for the cluster setup manually. During the installation procedure you just give the names of your private network ports to the scinstall procedure. This will do all the setup for you.
The V240 is supported for SC3.1.
Regards
Hartmut

Creating a new Essbase Cluster on the same Solaris server

Hi All,
I have two servers:
Server1: Foundation services, APS, EAS
Server2: Essbase Server, Essbase Studio Server on epminstance_1
Due to business requirements I need to "rename" the Essbase cluster from "EssbaseCluster-1" to something else.. I know this is not possible and from the below document I understand that I need to create a new instance on Server2 and configure Essbase and Essbase Studio on it.
"How to Rename Essbase Cluster (Doc ID 1434439.1)"
Goal: In EPM System Release 11.1.2.x, is it possible to rename the Essbase instance and cluster names after they are configured?
Solution: No, it is not possible to rename the Essbase cluster or instance names after the initial configuration. If you need to change the instance and cluster names, create new instance and cluster. Export the applications from the old cluster and import them into the new cluster.
My doubt lies with configuring the 2nd Essbase server as I am not clear how a single environment with two Essbase standalone instances on the same physical Solaris server, with each belonging to their own cluster will behave. I know that they are independent clusters and the concept of active/passive and active/active clusters are for Essbase instances part of the same cluster.
I plan to create a new epminstance_2 instance on Server2 and configure the 2nd Essbase server as follows: give it a *new* cluster name and not assign it to the existing Essbase cluster and deploy it in standalone mode.
1. Now I plan to use the 1st instance only as a backup option.. In an event where for some reason the new instance were to fail I would start up the services on the older essbase instance. Is this possible without any additional configuration or changes to OPMN?
2. Alternatively, say we want to remove the older instance. Kindly suggest ways in which I can safely "remove" the older cluster (other than uninstalling). Also when users log in using SmartView, they would see the older and new cluster.. Is there anyways I can get rid of the older cluster without having to uninstall everthing on Server2 and start fresh?
Thanks!

Thanks John!
I have a doubt which I hope you can throw some light now..
I created a new instance and configured Essbase Server and Studio server on it. So now I have two EPM instances on the same physical server both having Essbase server and Essbase studio server - both Essbase servers belong to different Essbase clusters. Now from the EPM docs I do not find any mention that we can or cannot have multiple instances of Essbase Studio on the same server. Kindly correct me if I am wrong..
In the deployment report I see two identical entries for the Essbase Studio server in the older epminstance but I do not see Essbase Studio of the 2nd Instance.
epmsystem_1 (Server2)
Essbase Studio Server - 9080
epmsystem_1 (Server2)
Essbase Studio Server - 9080
After I start up the 2nd Essbase Studio server I tried connecting to it from Essbase Studio Console and got the error "Read permission denied to object folder:\'system'."
Similarly when I run start_BPMS_bpms1_CommandLineClient.sh and issue the reinit command I get the same error.
So I stopped the 2nd Essbase Studio server on epmsystem_2 and started up the first Essbase Studio server on epmsystem_1. I was able to connect to it fine from Essbase Studio console and reinit worked too.. I ran a drill through report which worked fine.
-> So is it that we can have only one instance of Essbase Studio on a single server?
Also say I want to use the Essbase Studio on the 2nd instance.. Could I re-configure just Essbase server on epmsystem_1 and re-configure Essbase server and Essbase studio server on epmsystem_2 ?
Thanks,
Kent

Strange Cluster Startup Timing Issues (Solaris 2.7)

          When we start up our admin server for our WLS 6.0sp1 cluster (running on Solaris
          2.7), then try to start all the managed servers approximately simultaneously,
          the managed servers come up apparently normally (no errors in the logs) but no
          EJBs ever deploy.
          If we follow the same steps, but wait until each server is all the way up before
          starting the next, everything is fine.
          Has anyone else run into this?
          -daniel


Hmm, I wonder if they "cannot" or "will not" supply you the patch...
          Oh well, hopefully this won't get me in trouble! Here's the patch, stick it in your weblogic /lib
          directory or in CLASSPATH, and add the following to your startup command:
          -Dweblogic.rmi.queuesize=n
          And if you are having problems, don't tell BEA who gave this to you! :-)
          Gene
          "Aaron Oas" <[email protected]> wrote in message
          news:[email protected]...
          > Thanks for the information.
          >
          > We wrote to BEA support; here's the response (i.e. no patch is forthcoming):
          >
          > ----------------------------- begin BEA
          > response -----------------------------
          > FR: tommy
          >
          > CASE_ID_NUM: 248170
          >
          > MESSAGE:
          >
          > Daniel,
          >
          > My name is Tommy, and I'm a Developer Relations Engineer with
          > BEA Technical Support. I wanted to drop you a quick note to tell you
          > that I've picked up your support case.
          >
          > At this time engineering does not have a patch for this CR. This issue is
          > slated to be fixed in WLS 6.1 release which is scheduled for end of July.
          > At this time engineering is pushing to have 6.1 released on schedule, and
          > since
          > there is a valid work around for this issue, they will not provide a patch.
          >
          > The work around is to simply boot your servers in increments of about 30
          > seconds.
          >
          > Thanks in Advance,
          >
          > Tommy Butcher
          >
          > ----------------------------- end BEA response -----------------------------
          >
          > I guess it could be worse.
          >
          > - Aaron
          >
          >
          > "Gene Chuang" <[email protected]> wrote in message
          > news:[email protected]...
          > > Currently, weblogic_admin_rmi_queue native thread count is fixed at 3 (or
          > was it 4?). I did get a
          > > patch which allows me to set the count as a flag at startup, although it
          > would seem the longterm
          > > solution is for WL to self-manage the thread count dynamically. For
          > anyone who needs this interim
          > > solution, write to support and mention the CR.
          > >
          > > Gene
          > >
          > > "Aaron Oas" <[email protected]> wrote in message
          > > news:[email protected]...
          > > > Gene (and clusterers in general) -
          > > >
          > > > It seems odd that so few people have reported problems with concurrently
          > > > starting servers in a cluster if it is a limitation of
          > > > weblogic_admin_rmi_queue native thread count. Is it a limitation
          > imposed by
          > > > the Solaris kernel on weblogic (i.e. Solaris max threads per process or
          > per
          > > > user can't be set high enough in /etc/system)?
          > > >
          > > > I would think that for a mission-critical environment, starting managed
          > > > servers in a weblogic cluster would ideally be automated and
          > simultaneous;
          > > > rather than serial, and certainly rather than manual (log into each
          > solaris
          > > > box in turn and run the startup script by hand).
          > > >
          > > > Does anyone out there running weblogic clusters automate the startup of
          > > > their weblogic cluster as a whole (e.g. a startup script on the admin
          > server
          > > > box that cranks up all the remote managed servers as well)?
          > > >
          > > > I have ideas about how to do this without using rexec and .rhosts files,
          > but
          > > > it's not trivial (create a listener on each box wait for startup
          > command,
          > > > check for managed server process, run startup script...), and I'm
          > wondering
          > > > if:
          > > > 1) there is a well-known approach to starting up all the managed servers
          > on
          > > > remote boxes, and
          > > > 2) there is a solution to the apparent requirement that clustered
          > managed
          > > > servers can't start at the same time, even on separate boxes
          > > >
          > > > Hope there are some thoughts on this out there,
          > > >
          > > >
          > > > - Aaron
          > > > "Gene Chuang" <[email protected]> wrote in message
          > > > news:[email protected]...
          > > > > I've filed a issue, CR042545, where I cannot concurrently start more
          > than
          > > > 2 managed servers in
          > > > > Solaris 2.7 due to weblogic_admin_rmi_queue native thread count
          > > > limitations... hopefully it has
          > > > > been fixed in 6.1?
          > > > >
          > > > > Gene
          > > > >
          > > > > "Fred Bloggs" <[email protected]> wrote in message
          > > > news:[email protected]...
          > > > > >
          > > > > > When we start up our admin server for our WLS 6.0sp1 cluster
          > (running on
          > > > Solaris
          > > > > > 2.7), then try to start all the managed servers approximately
          > > > simultaneously,
          > > > > > the managed servers come up apparently normally (no errors in the
          > logs)
          > > > but no
          > > > > > EJBs ever deploy.
          > > > > >
          > > > > > If we follow the same steps, but wait until each server is all the
          > way
          > > > up before
          > > > > > starting the next, everything is fine.
          > > > > >
          > > > > > Has anyone else run into this?
          > > > > >
          > > > > > -daniel
          > > > >
          > > > >
          > > >
          > > >
          > >
          > >
          >
          >
          [cr042545.jar]

Solaris Cluster 3.3u2 configuration - Solaris Ldoms

Hi,
I've 2 sun blade T5-1B and I create 4 ldoms on each blade, also I install the Solaris Cluster 3.3u2 and its all done successfully, I did several time resource fail-over with nodes, everything seems working perfect for me as normal behavior of expected but I've an issue to test public transport testing, hereby I remove the both physical public transport cable form node1 but its didn't fail-over on node2, little confuse as its should be fail-over to node2, but not. Please let me know if where missed something to get proper fail-over?
Please advise.
regards,

Hi M10vir,
this means you are running SC3.3u2 in guest domains and pulling the cables from the primary domain?
If so, this would mean that the IPMP group used in the guest domain need to get a link down that Solaris Cluster do a failover when logical hostname resources are configured. How are the network interfaces configured and what is the status of the network interfaces when the cables are removed? Furthermore does the domains recognize that the network is gone and the relevant messages are in /var/adm/messages?
Thanks,
Juergen

Multimedia Cluster / software distro for Solaris 9

Hello all!
I was wondering if there is any sort multimedia cluster available for Sun OS 5.9. A software distribution having some sort of multimedia applications for video, audio and stuff.... Otherwise one gets bored sometime on dry solaris. Had heard previously about Sun MediaCentre...What about it? Is it still available from SUN?? Are there any other third party clusters available ???

There's plenty of stuff out there you can get for multimedia: xmms, xine; there are even Windows media player and Real Player for Solaris floating around...can't get them from the official sites anymore, I don't think...

Cluster session replica on solaris

          Hi,
               I had made a cluster on two solarises, I want the servlet session can be replicated,
          But if I set weblogic.httpd.session.persistentStoreType=replicated , sometimes the browser will
          display message "inconsistent cookie, primary key != me " when I access a session servlet,
          and the call is failed. In other ways, session replica is O.K. If I disable this property, nothing
          occured, but session can't be replicated. who can explain it ? thanks for your help.
          Best regards,
          Zhanlu


          You might check:
          1. two clustering machines must have the same cluster name configured
          (weblogic.cluster.name) and port #
          2. using MulticastTest utility to check the communication is ok
          between clustering nodes
          3. there should have add server name/ip to cluster view something
          right before WL startup on each clustered nodes
          4. ping multicast adddress to see 2 nodes ip returned
          Hope this works. Brian
          "Sreenivas Gadila" <[email protected]> wrote:
          >
          >Hi,
          >
          >We are testing our environtment with weblogic5.1 sp8.
          >and we want
          >to migrate
          >to the new environment. rightnow i am using the trial
          >version of
          >your
          >software.
          >
          >
          >I have a cluster setup in my environment. i have 2 solaris
          >8 machines
          >running with weblogic 5.1 SP 8. also i have an iplanet
          >4.0 webserver
          >running
          >at the front end (I installed the NSAPI plugin for iplanet
          >webserver
          >as per
          >your instructions in the docs). now my problem is i could
          >not able
          >to get
          >the session information upon failover to the second server.
          >can
          >you let me
          >know what are all the properties do i need to setup in
          >my
          >weblogic.properties files. do i need to set up any of
          >the httpd
          >properties
          >also for clustering, cos i am not using weblogic as my
          >web server.
          >I am
          >using your simple example of SimpleSession.jsp to test.
          >here the
          >information
          >is not replicated in the cookie. Initially i get the page
          >hit from
          >1st
          >server and then the from the 2nd server but both the hits
          >are not
          >same they
          >differ in number? is this the general behaviour of the
          >example
          >or do i need
          >to tweek my weblogic.properties files on my servers.
          >
          >Here are the cluster properties in my weblogic.properties
          >file
          >which i am
          >using in my cluster servers.
          >
          >weblogic.cluster.enable=true
          >weblogic.cluster.dnsName={dns name of the server
          >weblogic.cluster.multicastAddress=224.0.0.0
          >weblogic.cluster.multicastTTL=1
          >weblogic.cluster.defaultLoadAlgorithm=round-robin
          >weblogic.system.perclusterPropertiesfile=/weblogic/mycluster
          >weblogic.httpd.clustering.enable=true
          >weblogic.httpd.session.persistance=true
          >weblogic.httpd.session.persistentStoreType=replicated
          >
          >Please let me know if i need to add / delete any of the
          >properties.
          >
          >Any help is highly appreciated
          >Thanks
          >Sreeni..
          >

Setup Cluster using Solaris Container data service

We have a two-node cluster that we would like to use to create either a zone cluster or use the Solaris Container data service that would create a scalable (or multiple master) data service of two zones, one on each node. We have an app running in the zone, CiscoWorks, that has a local database of jobs that are scheduled to run to configure Cisco switches. I was curious how we setup the storage. If each zone is running on local disks, how do the zones stay in sync and the database updated with job information? Would I setup a device group of the disks where the zones will reside on each node? Can I use SAN as the local disk so the zones can be replicated to a Disaster Recovery location?
Thanks for any help,
Chuck

Chuck,
Sadly, I think I'm going to make your implementation decisions a lot more complicated because there are three ways you can use zones within Solaris Cluster.
1. Create a failover zone using the HA Solaris Container Data Service. Here the zone root moves between the cluster nodes as the zone fails over.
2. Create static zones between with resource groups can migrate. Each zone root is local the the physical node. However, the configuration of the zones can be subtly different.
3. Create a virtual cluster using static zones within which resource groups can migrate. Each zone root is local the the physical node. However, the configuration of the zones are forced to be the same.
Note also, that a ZFS zpool can only be mounted on one node or zone at anyone time, although it can be mounted read/write in one zone and read-only in other zones on the same node (IIRC).
I would be inclined to put your database into an HA configuration, i.e. one that runs on one node at any one time. I would then constrain that in a zone cluster that is bound to a project with restricted resources, i.e. CPUs and memory. Any other tiers of the application, could then be placed either in the global zone (main cluster) or placed in another zone cluster and equally constrained.
I don't know if that's any help. I can recommend a good book on the subject <shameless plug "Oracle Solaris Cluster Essentials"/>. The example chapters should be of help.
Regards,
Tim
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Common Agent Container Problem on New Solaris Cluster 3.2 (1/09)

Hi,
I have just installed Solaris Cluster 3.2 u2. Getting following error when run cluster check or sccheck -v 2:
cluster check
cacaocsc: unable to connect: Connection refused by peer
cluster check: (C704199) unable to reach Common Agent Container
sccheck -v 2
sccheck: Requesting explorer data and node report from node1.
sccheck: Requesting explorer data and node report from node1-cl.
sccheck: node1: Additional explorer arguments: -w !default,cluster,disks,etc,messages,nbu,netinfo,patch,pkg,sds,lvm,sonoma,sysconfig,var,vxvm,vxfs,vxfsextended -c "/usr/cluster/lib/sccheck/vfstab-global-mount-points" -c "/usr/cluster/lib/sccheck/netapp-nas-quorum-devices"
sccheck: node1: WARNING: EXP_CONTRACT_ID not set!
sccheck: node1: WARNING: EXP_REPLY not set!
sccheck: node1:
sccheck: node1: 2 warnings found in /etc/opt/SUNWexplo/default/explorer
sccheck: node1:
sccheck: node1: Mar 07 21:56:15 node1[5519] explorer: ERROR explorer
sccheck: node1: Mar 07 21:56:15 node1[5519] explorer: ERROR Module or alias sds does not exist.
sccheck: node1: Explorer run failed:
sccheck: node1-cl: Additional explorer arguments: -w !default,cluster,disks,etc,messages,nbu,netinfo,patch,pkg,sds,lvm,sonoma,sysconfig,var,vxvm,vxfs,vxfsextended -c "/usr/cluster/lib/sccheck/vfstab-global-mount-points" -c "/usr/cluster/lib/sccheck/netapp-nas-quorum-devices"
sccheck: node1-cl: WARNING: EXP_CONTRACT_ID not set!
sccheck: node1-cl: WARNING: EXP_REPLY not set!
sccheck: node1-cl:
sccheck: node1-cl: 2 warnings found in /etc/opt/SUNWexplo/default/explorer
sccheck: node1-cl:
sccheck: node1-cl: Mar 07 21:56:15 node1-cl[3851] explorer: ERROR explorer
sccheck: node1-cl: Mar 07 21:56:15 node1-cl[3851] explorer: ERROR Module or alias sds does not exist.
sccheck: node1-cl: Explorer run failed:
sccheck: node1 error: Unexpected early return from server.
sccheck: node1-cl error: Unexpected early return from server.
sccheck: Unable to run checks on: node1,node1-cl
Even when I try to run Cluster Manager from web I am getting following error:
"A communication problem was encountered by the system"
Following is the version I am using:
root@node1 #
root@node1 # cacaoadm -V
2.2.0.1
root@node1 #
root@node1 # smcwebserver -V
Version 3.1
root@node1 #
root@node1 #
root@node1 # svcs -a | grep container
online 21:30:30 svc:/application/management/common-agent-container-1:default
root@node1 #
root@node1 #
root@node1 # svcs -a | grep webconsole
online 21:20:29 svc:/system/webconsole:console
root@node1 #
root@node1 #
root@node1 #
root@node1 # cat /etc/release
Solaris 10 5/08 s10s_u5wos_10 SPARC
Copyright 2008 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Use is subject to license terms.
Assembled 24 March 2008
root@node1 #
root@node1 #
root@node1 # cat /etc/cluster/release
Sun Cluster 3.2u2 for Solaris 10 sparc
Copyright 2008 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
root@node1 #
root@node1 #
Do you have any idea or tips to solve this problem?
Thanks
Edited by: shmozumder on Mar 8, 2009 1:50 AM

Hi Tim,
Yes - it's running:
default instance is ENABLED at system startup.
Smf monitoring process:
29410
29411
Uptime: 0 day(s), 0:14
dssdbgen03p1 # svcs -a |grep -i comm
disabled 17:03:06 svc:/network/rpc/mdcomm:default
online 13:20:53 svc:/application/management/common-agent-container-2:default
uninitialized 16:58:32 svc:/application/management/common-agent-container-1:default
I also get messages like the following in the /var/adm/messages file when starting cacaoadm :
Jul 7 13:20:52 dssdbgen03p1 java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: Cannot find class com.sun.cacao.rmi.impl.RMIModule in module com.sun.cacao.rmi
Jul 7 13:20:52 dssdbgen03p1 java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: Cannot find class com.sun.cacao.invoker.impl.InvokerModule in module com.sun.cacao.invoker
Jul 7 13:20:52 dssdbgen03p1 java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: Cannot find class com.sun.cacao.snmpv3adaptor.SnmpV3AdaptorModule in module com.sun.cacao.snmpv3_adaptor
Jul 7 13:20:52 dssdbgen03p1 java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: Cannot find class com.sun.cacao.dtrace.impl.DTraceModule in module com.sun.cacao.dtrace
Jul 7 13:20:52 dssdbgen03p1 java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: Cannot find class com.sun.cacao.rbac.impl.RbacModule in module com.sun.cacao.rbac
Jul 7 13:20:52 dssdbgen03p1 java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: Cannot find class com.sun.cacao.instrum.impl.InstrumModule in module com.sun.cacao.instrum
Jul 7 13:20:52 dssdbgen03p1 java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: Cannot find class com.sun.cacao.commandstream.CommandStreamAdaptorModule in module com.sun.cacao.command_stream_adaptor

Failed to install SUN cluster 3.1 8/05 on solaris 10(x64)

I install the cluster 3.1 u4 on two nodes(node1 and node2) by using "scinstall".( The two nodes have the same system) After cluster installed, i reboot node2 . Before rebooting, I have done the following operation.
# echo "etc/cluster/nodeid" >> /boot/solaris/filelist.ramdisk
# echo "etc/cluster/ccr/did_instances" >> /boot/solaris/filelist.ramdisk
# bootadm update-archive
updating /platform/i86pc/boot_archive...this may take a minute
# init 6
But node2 crashed,and failed to reboot.
I could only see several characters "GRUB" in the screen. The system even doesnot present the grub menu.
The system i used:
bash-3.00# prtdiag
System Configuration: Sun Microsystems Sun Fire X4200 Server
BIOS Configuration: American Megatrends Inc. 080010 08/10/2005
bash-3.00# uname -a
SunOS arcsunx42km0838 5.10 Generic_118855-19 i86pc i386 i86pc
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The only thing I can find that is vaguely similar is where users have installed -19 of 118855 but not updated all the other patches on the system. I would try booting from the failsafe mode, if you can get to this. Then update all the patches.
If you can't I guess you are going to have to either boot from DVD and fix or just rebuild.
Tim
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Available design options for a cluster hosting many different virtualized Solaris versions

Good day, everyone, and thanks first off for reading my question.
So, I have been Googling and reading oracle documentation for the past couple weeks, and I am just getting more and more confused as to what I need to do, and I would really appreciate some guidance or at least pointing me to what specifically I should be reading.
Situation: We have several 10+ year old Solaris systems, running either Solaris 8 or 10, that hold several mission-critical systems for business operation. These systems are rapidly dying and need to be migrated to a newer system. They are old systems that require very few resources to run, but are critical nonetheless.
So far: We have purchased four T5220 SPARC servers, with 8 cores and 64GB of RAM each. They have arrived, and I am ready to start building the "solution".
The intent: To be able to take system images of these old systems, virtualize them, and have them run on some type of high-availability cluster solution that will keep them operational, even if one (or possibly two) of the four physical T5220 servers failed.
Question: How should I do this? It seemed like a simple idea to start out with. My initial thoughts were to install Solaris 11 on each of the four servers, cluster them together with Oracle cluster, run a Hypervisor of some type as a cluster application (Oracle VM?) on top of the physical cluster, and then drop all of the virtual machines on top of that hypervisor. That way, the virtual machines should run uninterrupted if a cluster node fails.
Is this feasible? Possible? What is the right terminology here so I know what to be researching? I didn't think this would be so hard, but I can't even find a good white paper/document to read - they all seem to be focused to something other than what I'm looking for.
Any suggestions for how I should accomplish this or where I can go to find the information I'm looking for?
Thanks in advance for all your help.
-Lyxix

Thanks Walter, that did help a lot! Looking into it a bit more, this is what it looks like I need to learn about and implement. How does this sound for an extremely broad overview:
Step 1) Cluster the 4 physical servers together (figure out what type of cluster I need, and use Oracle Cluster 4.x on top of Solaris 11.1 or maybe 11.2 beta?)
Step 2) Create Zoneclusters, probably one for each type of OS I need to run (a Sol 8 ZC, and a Sol 10 ZC, and then possibly a Sol 11 ZC to try to migrate the systems up if possible...)
Step 3) Create Logical Domains (LDOMs) for each of my old systems, and put them on the zone clusters, using Oracle VM Server.
In this setup, if a node fails, the virtual system will go down, but I should be able to configure it to start up another node automatically with minimal downtime for the virtual systems?
I realize "I should be" is reaching, since I have virtually zilch cluster experience and limited Solaris experience, but let's rephrase that to "it's possible to". I realize I have a lot of work ahead of me, but thankfully I have no strict time limits to get this implemented and can work one step at a time.
Thanks so much for your help - does this all sound correct so far?
-Lyxix

Solaris 8 on a v440 where do I get drivers for older solaris version?

I have a db cluster of v880s on Solaris 8. I need to temporarily move the database to a v440. I created a flash archive on the v880s and, of course, it didn't work after installing (got tod error and couldn't boot). I know this is because it is too old a version of Solaris. My question is, can I apply the new drivers to the v880 and then create a new flar image? If so, where do I get the drivers? Also, is there any way to apply the drivers to a system that has been imaged already with a flar from a v880? Can I apply them as a post-install script under jumpstart? Can I somehow boot from cdrom and then apply them? Any information would be greatly appreciated. This is a fairly urgent matter as we have a firm date with movers that can't be changed.

Hmm, the V440 is a quite old box as well, so it should work with Solaris 8 7/03 or older.
There are three alternatives as far as i can see:
1: What version of Solaris 8 are you using? If you are using 7/03 or later it should be sufficent if you booted the V440 into singleuser mode (from cd/dvd or network) mounted the disk and ran devfsadm -R on it.
2: If the Solaris 8 would be older than 7/03, you should, as far as i can see, be able to install the flar archives from your jumpstart, and then boot of a Solaris 8 7/03 (or later) cd and run an upgrade from it.
3: Apply the following patches, either to your 880 before you create the image, or to your V440 after installing the flar (you would have to apply the patches from single-user as mentioned inn step 1, it should be possible to add the patches from a jumpstart image using the patchadd -R command).
108528-22 (or newer) Kernel Update patch
108974-31 (or newer) sd and ssd patch
109873-19 (or newer) libprtdiag_psr.so.1 patch
109888-24 (or newer) platform drivers patch
109889-06 (or newer) platform links & libc_psr patch
110819-04 (or newer) us driver patch
110460-30 (or newer) fruid/PICL plug-ins patch
112249-04 (or newer) Netra-12 libprtdiag_psr.so.1 patch
113679-04 (or newer) rmc* and librsc.so.1 patch
113684-03 (or newer) scadm patch
115274-01 (or newer) raidctl patch
115275-01 (or newer) mpt driver patch
109896-17 (or newer) USB and Audio Framework patch
110918-05 (or newer) openeepr and prtconf patch
113682-02 (or newer) pmugpio patch
109793-19 (or newer) su driver patch
7/M.

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