Sun Cluster Data Services 3.1 5/03 Release Notes Supplement
This page supplements the standard user documentation, including the Sun Cluster 3.1 Data Service 5/03 Release Notes that shipped with the Sun™ Cluster 3.1 product. These “online release notes” provide the most current information on the Sun Cluster 3.1 product. This page includes the following information.
- Revision Record
- New Features
- Restrictions and Requirements
- Known Problems
- Known Documentation Problems
Revision Record
The following table lists the information contained in this page and provides the revision date for this information.
Sun Cluster Data Services 3.1 5/03 Release Notes Supplement Revision Record: 2003/2004
| Revision Date | New Information |
|---|---|
| December 2004 | Sun Clustersupports the use of ASM with Oracle 10g Real Application Servers on the SPARC platform. For more information, see IPv6 Support and Restrictions for Public Networks. |
| November 2004 | The Sun Cluster Support for Oracle Real Application Clusters data service supports Oracle 10g Real Application Servers on the SPARC platform. For more information, see Support for Oracle 10g Real Application Clusters on the SPARC Platform. |
| May 2004 | The Sun Cluster HA for Oracle data service in Sun Cluster Data Services 3.1 5/03 now supports Oracle 10g. See Support for Oracle 10g. |
| February 2004 | Lack of support for Sun StorEdge 3310 JBOD array in a split-bus configuration has been fixed. See BugId 4818874 for details. |
| Conceptual material and example configurations for using storage-based data replication in a campus cluster. Refer to Chapter 7, Campus Clustering With Sun Cluster Software, in Sun Cluster 3.0-3.1 Hardware Administration Manual for Solaris OS. | |
| July 2003 | Procedures to enable Sun Cluster Support for Oracle Real Application Clusters on a subset of cluster nodes. See Sun Cluster Support for Oracle Real Application Clusters on a Subset of Cluster Nodes. |
| Revised support for Multiple Masters configuration of Sun Cluster HA for Sun ONE Application Server. See Sun Cluster 3.1 Data Service for Sun ONE Application Server. |
New Features
In addition to features documented in Sun Cluster 3.1 Data Service 5/03 Release Notes, this release now includes support for the following features.
Support for Oracle 10g
The Sun Cluster HA for Oracle data service in Sun Cluster Data Services 3.1 5/03 now supports Oracle 10g.
If you are using Sun Cluster HA for Oracle with Oracle 10g, an attempt by the init(1M) command to start the Oracle cssd daemon might cause unnecessary error messages to be displayed. These error messages are displayed if the Oracle binary files are installed on a highly available local file system or on the cluster file system. The messages are displayed repeatedly until the file system where the Oracle binary files are installed is mounted.
These error messages are as follows:
INIT: Command is respawning too rapidly. Check for possible errors.
id: h1 "/etc/init.d/init.cssd run >/dev/null 2>&1 >/dev/null"
Waiting for filesystem containing $CRSCTL.
These messages are displayed if the following events occur:
- A node is running in noncluster mode. In this situation, file systems that Sun Cluster controls are never mounted.
- A node is booting. In this situation, the messages are displayed repeatedly until Sun Cluster mounts the file system where the Oracle binary files are installed.
- Oracle is started on or fails over to a node where the Oracle installation was not originally run. In such a configuration, the Oracle binary files are installed on a highly available local file system. In this situation, the messages are displayed on the console of the node where the Oracle installation was run.
To prevent these error messages, remove the entry for the Oracle cssd daemon from the /etc/inittab file on the node where the Oracle software is installed. To remove this entry, remove the following line from the /etc/inittab file:
h1:23:respawn:/etc/init.d/init.cssd run >/dev/null 2>&1 > </dev/null
Sun Cluster HA for Oracle does not require the Oracle cssd daemon. Therefore, removal of this entry does not affect the operation of Oracle 10g with Sun Cluster HA for Oracle. If your Oracle installation changes so that the Oracle cssd daemon is required, restore the entry for this daemon to the /etc/inittab file.
 | Caution If you are using Real Application Clusters, do not remove the entry for the cssd daemon from the /etc/inittab file. |
Sun Cluster Support for Oracle Real Application Clusters on a Subset of Cluster Nodes
You can enable Sun Cluster Support for Oracle Real Application Clusters on a subset of cluster nodes. Install the data service packages only on the nodes that are configured to run Oracle Real Application Clusters. You are not required to install data service packages on nodes that will not run Oracle Real Application Clusters. For a list of packages and installation instructions, see Sun Cluster Data Service for Oracle Real Application Clusters Guide for Solaris OS.
 | Note Restrictions apply when you use Sun Cluster Support for Oracle Real Application Clusters with hardware RAID support or VxVM with the cluster feature. The Sun Cluster Support for Oracle Real Application Clusters software must be installed only on the cluster nodes that are directly attached to the shared storage used by Oracle Real Application Clusters. |
Adding Sun Cluster Support for Oracle Real Application Clusters to Selected Nodes
Add Sun Cluster Support for Oracle Real Application Clusters to selected nodes in the following situations:
- You are adding nodes to a cluster and you plan to run Sun Cluster Support for Oracle Real Application Clusters on the nodes.
- You are enabling Sun Cluster Support for Oracle Real Application Clusters on a node.
To add Sun Cluster Support for Oracle Real Application Clusters to selected nodes, the required data service software packages on the nodes. The storage management scheme that you are using determines which packages to install. For installation instructions, see Sun Cluster Data Service for Oracle Real Application Clusters Guide for Solaris OS.
Removing Sun Cluster Support for Oracle Real Application Clusters From a Node
To remove Sun Cluster Support for Oracle Real Application Clusters from selected nodes, remove software packages from the nodes. The storage management scheme that you are using determines which packages to remove.
How to Remove Sun Cluster Support for Oracle Real Application Clusters From a Node
- Become superuser.
- Boot the nodes from which you are removing Sun Cluster Support for Oracle Real Application Clusters in noncluster mode.
- Uninstall from each node the Sun Cluster Support for Oracle Real Application Clusters software packages for the storage management scheme that you are using.
- If you are using VxVM with the cluster feature, type the following command:
# pkgrm SUNWscucm SUNWudlm SUNWudlmr SUNWcvmr SUNWcvm
- If you are using hardware RAID support, type the following command:
# pkgrm SUNWscucm SUNWudlm SUNWudlmr SUNWschwr
- If you are using the cluster file system, type the following command:
# pkgrm SUNWscucm SUNWudlm SUNWudlmr
- If you are using VxVM with the cluster feature, type the following command:
Restrictions and Requirements
The following restrictions and requirements have been added or updated since the Sun Cluster 3.1 Data Service 5/03 release.
There are no known restrictions and requirements at this time.
Known Problems
In addition to known problems documented in the Sun Cluster 3.1 Data Service 5/03 Release Notes, the following known problems affect the operation of the Sun Cluster 3.1 Data Service 5/03 release.
There are no known problems at this time.
Known Documentation Problems
This section discusses documentation errors you might encounter and steps to correct these problems. This information is in addition to known documentation problems documented in the Sun Cluster 3.1 Data Service 5/03 Release Notes.
Sun Cluster 3.1 Data Service for NetBackup
This section discusses errors and omissions from the Sun Cluster 3.1 Data Service for Netbackup.
The “Sun Cluster HA for NetBackup Overview” section should state that in a Sun Cluster environment, robotic control is only supported on media servers and not on the NetBackup master server running on Sun Cluster software.
Sun Cluster 3.1 Data Service for Sun ONE Application Server
Do not configure the Sun Cluster HA for Sun Java System Application Server as a resource that is mastered on multiple nodes at the same time. The multiple masters configuration is not supported. Only the failover configuration is supported. For information about supported configurations, contact your Sun service representative.
Release Notes
The following subsections describe omissions or new information that will be added to the next publishing of the Release Notes.