Sun Cluster 3.2 on Vmware nodes

Hi,

I am trying to install Sun cluster 3.2 on VMware solaris 10 nodes.

In 3.2 scinstall can configure the cluster software on the secondnode also. But the scinstall hangs after configuring the second node and reboots the second node. Also observed that after rebooting the second node is not forming the initial cluster. Does anybody know any workaround for this ?

I also tried making the first node as a first cluster node. Faced the same problem again. scinstall completes fine and after reboot the firstnode doesnot form a cluster and boots in non-cluster mode always.

If anyone is aware of these problems please help me.

Regards

LP

[679 byte] By [lpandrea] at [2007-11-27 1:38:53]
# 1
It's probably the same issue as mentioned in the following posting: http://forum.java.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=5160048&tstart=0Tim
Tim.Reada at 2007-7-12 0:51:19 > top of Java-index,Solaris Operating System,Solaris Essentials - General Technical Questions...
# 2
Thanks for responding ... Let me try what is mentioned in the above link and see if it works. Thanks again !
lpandrea at 2007-7-12 0:51:19 > top of Java-index,Solaris Operating System,Solaris Essentials - General Technical Questions...
# 3

Tim,

I have reinstalled the VMware nodes again and this time configured one node as suncluster node. The scinstall went on fine and after reboot of the server the node will not boot in cluster mode.

#/usr/cluster/bin/cluster status

cluster: (C152734) This node is not in cluster mode.

#

Any idea, why it is booting in non cluster mode ?

- LP

lpandrea at 2007-7-12 0:51:19 > top of Java-index,Solaris Operating System,Solaris Essentials - General Technical Questions...
# 4

Very strange - I've not tried VMware so I don't have much to offer here. I would suggest the following though:

* Have a look at the services that are running and see if something is blocked. (svcs -x)

* Have you booted the Solaris kernel 64 bit under VMware

* What messages are there in /var/adm/messages

* Have you patched the Solaris installation under VMware, if so, what major patches did you install differently (if any)

Tim

Tim.Reada at 2007-7-12 0:51:19 > top of Java-index,Solaris Operating System,Solaris Essentials - General Technical Questions...
# 5

Tim,

I havn't installed any patches.

I have checked the services using svcs -x and initially found one server was disabled

/system/cluster/cl-svc-cluster-milestone

I tried to start that service and had lot of dependencies and started them all and rebooted the machine. Still it is booting in non cluster mode and now svcs -xv gives the following services were not started

# svcs -xv

svc:/system/cluster/sc_failfast:default (Enabling the failfast service)

State: maintenance since Wed Apr 25 19:47:17 2007

Reason: Start method exited with $SMF_EXIT_ERR_CONFIG.

See: http://sun.com/msg/SMF-8000-KS

See: /var/svc/log/system-cluster-sc_failfast:default.log

Impact: 14 dependent services are not running:

svc:/system/cluster/cl-svc-enable:default

svc:/system/cluster/sc_zones:default

svc:/system/cluster/scprivipd:default

svc:/system/cluster/cl-svc-cluster-milestone:default

svc:/system/cluster/sckeysync:default

svc:/system/cluster/rpc-fed:default

svc:/system/cluster/rgm:default

svc:/system/cluster/scdpm:default

svc:/system/cluster/rpc-pmf:default

svc:/system/cluster/sc_ng_zones:default

svc:/system/cluster/pnm:default

svc:/system/cluster/cl-event:default

svc:/system/cluster/cl-eventlog:default

svc:/system/cluster/cl-ccra:default

svc:/system/cluster/scslm:default (Sun Cluster cleanup for SLM generated pools/pset)

State: offline since Wed Apr 25 19:36:59 2007

Reason: Dependency svc:/system/pools is absent.

See: http://sun.com/msg/SMF-8000-E2

Impact: 4 dependent services are not running:

svc:/system/cluster/rpc-fed:default

svc:/system/cluster/cl-svc-cluster-milestone:default

svc:/system/cluster/sckeysync:default

svc:/system/cluster/rgm:default

svc:/application/print/server:default (LP print server)

State: disabled since Wed Apr 25 19:36:49 2007

Reason: Disabled by an administrator.

See: http://sun.com/msg/SMF-8000-05

See: man -M /usr/share/man -s 1M lpsched

Impact: 2 dependent services are not running:

svc:/application/print/rfc1179:default

svc:/application/print/ipp-listener:default

- LP

lpandrea at 2007-7-12 0:51:19 > top of Java-index,Solaris Operating System,Solaris Essentials - General Technical Questions...
# 6
Forgot to mention . . its a 32 bit machine and so a 32bit kernel.
lpandrea at 2007-7-12 0:51:19 > top of Java-index,Solaris Operating System,Solaris Essentials - General Technical Questions...
# 7
Ah! That would explain it. There is no support (drivers) for Solaris running 32 bit. You must be running at 64 bit kernel. Tim
Tim.Reada at 2007-7-12 0:51:19 > top of Java-index,Solaris Operating System,Solaris Essentials - General Technical Questions...
# 8
Then what does it mean by solaris 10 x86 and suncluster 3.2 for x86 ?Do you mean that suncluster 3.2 will work only with x64 and sparc ?Any links which can throw more light on this pls - LP
lpandrea at 2007-7-12 0:51:19 > top of Java-index,Solaris Operating System,Solaris Essentials - General Technical Questions...
# 9
Sun Cluster 3.2 will only work on SPARC (64 bit anyway most of the time) and 64 bit AMD/Intel systems. I expect this is documented in the manual. Have a look on docs.sun.com in the SC3.2 release notes, etc. If it isn't documented anywhere, then it would be a docs bug.Tim
Tim.Reada at 2007-7-12 0:51:19 > top of Java-index,Solaris Operating System,Solaris Essentials - General Technical Questions...
# 10
Thanks a lot for your valuable inputs. I have already wasted lot of time without knowing this. Anyways, one more Question pls .. does Sun Cluster 3.1 support Solaris 10 on 32 bit x86 ?- LP
lpandrea at 2007-7-12 0:51:19 > top of Java-index,Solaris Operating System,Solaris Essentials - General Technical Questions...
# 11
Sorry to hear you've run into this. As far as I remember, the are no Sun Cluster releases for S10 that support 32 bit x86. If I hear otherwise from my colleagues, I'll let you know.Tim
Tim.Reada at 2007-7-12 0:51:19 > top of Java-index,Solaris Operating System,Solaris Essentials - General Technical Questions...
# 12
LP,please send me a private email at firstname dot lastname at sun dot com, and we can chat about what might be possible...Matthias Pfuetzner
Matthias.Pfuetznera at 2007-7-12 0:51:19 > top of Java-index,Solaris Operating System,Solaris Essentials - General Technical Questions...
# 13
LP,just so that you know:a.) internal to Sun we do build the 32-bit piecesb.) we're working on releasing those to the public with a big "not supported" statement (probably on BigAdmin)So, that's the current status...Matthias
Matthias.Pfuetznera at 2007-7-12 0:51:19 > top of Java-index,Solaris Operating System,Solaris Essentials - General Technical Questions...
# 14
LP,I didn't yet see a private email from you, so I can not yet help you.Please get in contact, so that we can discuss further options.Matthias
Matthias.Pfuetznera at 2007-7-12 0:51:20 > top of Java-index,Solaris Operating System,Solaris Essentials - General Technical Questions...