Creating Oracle-HA config using zone clusters

Question

We have a three-node Sun Cluster (3.3u1) on Solaris 10 update 9. We are using Hitachi VSP for external storage. Eventually we may go to RAC (had to drop the RAC licenses for the time being due to budget cuts) For the time being I want to deploy zone clusters and create several different Oracle-HA installations.
I've seen several ways of doing this and not sure what the best practice is or what limitations each method has. (so far I've not been able to get any of them working but I was using the vanilla 3.3 release and just rebuilt using 3.3u1 and then the 145334-09 core patch)
My question is do I create the cluster resource in the zone cluster or in the global cluster?
One document I'm trying to following does this at a high level:
a) Create HASP resource in global cluster to enable the zone cluster the use of the zpool that will house the oracle binaries (add to my zone cluster using "add dataset")
b) Create a logical hostname resource in the global cluster (add to my zone cluster using "add net")
Then from within one node of the zone cluster:
c) Create the oracle resource group
d) Register the HASP resource type (if not already)
e) Create an HASP resource to mount the zpool (this seems like a redundant step)
f) Create a Logical Hostname resource that will be used by the oracle listener (this seems like a redundant step)
g) Bring the resource group online
h) Install the oracle binaries from the cluster node where the zpool is current mounted
i) Install the database and configure the listener, ...
j) Register the oracle database and listener resource types
k) Create cluster resource for the listener and the database
I'm confused as to why I create the resources in the global zone (steps a & b) and then again in the zone cluster... Anyone have any ideas?
Also I found a sun engineer's blog that shows doing everything above at the global zone only. (Haven't gotten this to work either)
Thanks,

Answer 1

When I follow the example in the sun cluster essentials book I get the following error: (This error is the same with sun cluster 3.3 and 3.3u1) My test cluster is now running 3.3u1 with the 145334-09 core patch set.
When I get to the step where I create the hasp resource within one zone cluster node:
node01-chuck1:~ # clrs create -g rg-zc-chuck1-oracle -t SUNW.HAStoragePlus -p zpools=chuck1-u01 rs-zc-hasp-chuck1-u01
clrs: node02:chuck1 - More than one matching zpool for 'chuck1-u01': zpools configured to HAStoragePlus must be unique.
clrs: (C189917) VALIDATE on resource rs-zc-hasp-chuck1-u01, resource group rg-zc-chuck1-oracle, exited with non-zero exit status.
clrs: (C720144) Validation of resource rs-zc-hasp-chuck1-u01 in resource group rg-zc-chuck1-oracle on node node02-chuck1 failed.
clrs: (C891200) Failed to create resource "rs-zc-hasp-chuck1-u01".
My environment:
2-node cluster, with physical nodes - node01, node02
1 local zpool on each physical node called "zones" and mounted as /zones (These are on disks that are only visible to each physical node)
1 local zfs filesystem on each node called zones/chuck1 and mounted as /zones/chuck1
1 zone cluster created with zonepath = /zones/chuck1 called chuck1
1 zpool created on shared storage - chuck1-u01
At this point all the cluster checks and status commands show everything is healthy. I have done multiple reboots/halts/shutdowns of the zone cluster and no issues that I can see.
1) I have added the dataset to the zone cluster config from the global zone and rebooted the zone cluster. Note that I still don't see anything when I run "zpool status -v" within a zone cluster node. I would expect to see my chuck1-u01 zpool at this point.
2) I then created a resource group within one zone cluster node called rg-zc-chuck1-oracle
3) I then registered the SUNW.HAStoragePlus resource type within one zone cluster node
4) I then attempted to create the HASP resource type within one zone cluster node and I get the error above.
Any ideas? I've followed the sun cluster essentials example explicitly. (In my last attempt I skipped doing anything with the logical hostname resource - was saving that for later once I got the zpool working) It seems to get confused on the second node.
Thx