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Guide to High Availability: Configuring boot/root/swap
- Published Aug 24, 1999 by Pearson. Part of the Sun BluePrints, The Official Sun Microsystems Resource Series series.
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Features
- Provides detailed examples using specific pieces of hardware and software—Although the high-availability information can be applied to other parts of the computer product line.
Description
- Copyright 2000
- Dimensions: 7 X 9-1/4
- Pages: 103
- Edition: 1st
- Book
- ISBN-10: 0-13-016306-6
- ISBN-13: 978-0-13-016306-6
1630F-3
Take the "reboot" out of boot disk recovery
Configuring Sun StorEdge A5000 and Solstice DiskSuite™, step by step
Mirroring, hot relocation, recovery, Unipak, and much more
Guide to High Availability: Configuring boot/root/swap focuses on the system disk, providing configuration and recovery details for all Sun Servers. This book provides a cookbook approach to ensuring system disk availability. In keeping with the goals of simplicity and flexibility, the end result is solutions that scale from the smallest to the largest configurations.
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Table of Contents
1. Mirroring with the Sun StorEdge A5000 Subsystem and Solstice DiskSuite Software.
Hardware Configuration. Software Configuration. Creating Initial State Database Replicas. Detecting and Recovering from a Disk Failure.
2. Mirroring with the Sun StorEdge A5000 Subsystem and the Sun Enterprise Volume Manager Software.
Configuring the SEVM Software. Recovery. Adding Hot Relocation.
3. Sun StorEdge MultiPack or UniPack as a Solution.
Hardware Configuration. Software Configuration. Recovery. Upgrading the Solaris Operating Environment.
4. Alternative Boot Solutions.
Alternate Pathing and Sun Enterprise Volume Manager. Hardware Configuration. Software Configuration.
Appendix: Using the Command Line.
Setup. Recovery.
Index.
Preface
Preface
The concept of high availability can be applied to all aspects of a computer system. This book applies that concept to the system disk, which includes boot, root, and swap, using a subset of the hardware and all the software solutions that Sun Microsystems? offers today. Although this book provides detailed examples, using specific pieces of hardware and software, the high-availability information can be extended to other parts of the computer product line. For example, this book specifically covers the Sun StorEdge? A5000 subsystem, Sun StorEdge UniPack and MultiPack external desktop storage systems, Sun Enterprise 4000 and 5000 servers, and the Sun Ultra? 2 workstation. However, the concepts in this book are applicable to the Sun Enterprise 3000 to 6000 server line, as well as the Sun Enterprise 250 and 450 servers (which make use of multiple internal disks), and all Sun StorEdge subsystems that fit the criteria of hot-swappability. These concepts are not applicable to subsystems whose sole feature is Raid 5 functionality. If a piece of equipment has the same characteristics as the systems in this book (for example hot-swappablility), you can apply to it the concepts discussed in this book.
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About This BookGuide to High Availability: Configuring boot/root/swap provides configuration and recovery information for Sun servers. This book provides a cookbook approach for a variety of solutions that ensure system disk availability. Each chapter includes both hardware and software high availability solutions.
The philosophy of this book is that it is possible to achieve 100 percent uptime for the system boot disk. If the system disk is properly configured and its disk is hot-swappable, the server does not have to be rebooted when the system disk fails. This book tries to adhere strictly to the definition of high availability that allows a system to keep operating even with a failure.
Although this book does not cover every product and every configuration in detail, it provides enough information so that you can extrapolate the procedures to create the best solution for your particular server or disk. Who Should Use This BookThis book is intended for system engineers responsible for configuring a Sun server with a high availability requirement for the system disk. It uses an explicit, step-by-step approach, allowing you to have all the required information in one document. It covers a specific area of hardware and software configuration; for in-depth information on a particular component, consult the user manual for that product.
How This Book Is OrganizedChapter 1 "Mirroring with the Sun StorEdge A5000 Subsystem and Solstice DiskSuite Software" is a recipe for mirroring your system disk using Solstice DiskSuiteTM software and the Sun StorEdge A5000 system. It contains a specific example of configuration and one recovery scenario.
Chapter 2 "Mirroring with the Sun StorEdge A5000 Subsystem and the Sun Enterprise Volume Manager Software" is a recipe for mirroring your system disk using Sun Enterprise Volume ManagerTM and the Sun StorEdge A5000 system. It contains a specific configuration example and one recovery example. This recovery example is different from the example presented in Chapter 1.
Chapter 3 "Sun StorEdge MultiPack or UniPack as a Solution" is a recipe for mirroring your system disk using the Sun StorEdge MultiPack or UniPack.
Chapter 4 "Alternative Boot Solutions" provides the steps that enable you to configure your boot disk to use alternate pathing in conjunction with Sun Enterprise Volume Manager software.
Appendix A "Using the Command Line" provides command-line options that correspond to the GUI steps used in each chapter. Related BooksFor more information on related topics, see the following books:
- Sun Enterprise Volume Manager 2.5 System Administrator's Guide (PN 805-1607-10)
- Solstice DiskSuite 4.1 User's Guide (PN 802-4215)
- Sun Enterprise Server Alternate Pathing 2.1 User's Guide (PN 805-3532-10)
luxadmManual Page
| Typeface | Meaning | Examples |
|---|---|---|
AaBbCc123 | The names of commands, files, and directories; on-screen computer output | Edit your .login file. Use ls -a to list all files.% You have mail. |
AaBbCc123 | What you type, when contrasted with on-screen computer output | % suPassword: |
| AaBbCc123 | Book titles, new words or terms, words to be emphasized | Read Chapter 6 in the User's Guide. These are called class options. You must be superuser to do this. |
| Command-line variable; replace with a real name or value | To delete a file, type rm filename. |
| Shell | Prompt |
|---|---|
| C shell | machine_name% |
| C shell superuser | machine_name# |
| Bourne shell and Korn shell | $ |
| Bourne shell and Korn shell superuser | # |
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