Re: [Veritas-ha] Cluster Interconnect cables: Direct connect or VLANs?

2009-09-16 Thread Eric Hennessey
The configuration you’re considering – running your cluster interconnects over two separate VLANs – is actually our preferred and recommended method, even when deploying a simple 2-node cluster. While using direct connections between cluster nodes is simple and convenient, it becomes

Re: [Veritas-ha] wrong system name

2009-03-16 Thread Eric Hennessey
For LLT, there are two configuration files: /etc/llttab and /etc/llthosts. Make sure you've made the appropriate changes to both files. From: veritas-ha-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-ha-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of amit Sent: Sunday, March 15, 2009 2:07 PM

Re: [Veritas-ha] VCS Solaris Containers (Zones)

2009-03-05 Thread Eric Hennessey
Will VCS be managing the non-global zone so that it runs on either host? If so, the zone needs to be configured on each host. If the non-global zone will only be running on one of the servers independent of the cluster, then you're fine. From: veritas-ha-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu

Re: [Veritas-ha] Q: best upgrade procedure for solaris VCS

2009-02-05 Thread Eric Hennessey
My suggestion would be to upgrade SF and VCS first, the reason being that the later versions of VCS support Solaris 8, 9, and 10 within the same cluster. This way, you can do a rolling upgrade of the OS afterwards by upgrading first the idle node, then switch the app service group to the

Re: [Veritas-ha] VCS 5.03 Application agent probing

2009-01-09 Thread Eric Hennessey
A probe is simply an initial run of the monitor entry point (your monitor script) when the resource first goes online. If your monitor script otherwise works, it's possible the initial probe is running too soon after the online entry point when the resource isn't yet fully online. Eric

Re: [Veritas-ha] VCS 5.03 Application agent probing

2009-01-09 Thread Eric Hennessey
Tom's got a point...I just now looked at the monitor script, and you exit with a 0. The monitor should return 100 if it determines the app is offline and 110 if it's determined to be up. Eric From: veritas-ha-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu

Re: [Veritas-ha] Upgrading Solaris 8 to 10 in a VCS Environment

2008-11-10 Thread Eric Hennessey
Not so...VCS 4.1 was released specifically to support Solaris 10. Eric -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of ssloh Sent: Sunday, November 09, 2008 10:11 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Veritas-ha@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-ha]

Re: [Veritas-ha] ASM instance VCS group problem

2008-09-30 Thread Eric Hennessey
Thanks for clarifying that, Annette. Eric -Original Message- From: Annette Benz Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2008 12:32 AM To: Eric Hennessey; Shashi Kanth Boddula; veritas-ha@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: RE: [Veritas-ha] ASM instance VCS group problem Hi , Please note

Re: [Veritas-ha] ASM instance VCS group problem

2008-09-29 Thread Eric Hennessey
I think you need to open a support case on this...it almost looks as if your version of the Oracle agent for VCS is having a hard time parsing the + sign in the instance name. Eric -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Shashi Kanth Boddula

Re: [Veritas-ha] clustering solaris 10+ zones

2008-07-24 Thread Eric Hennessey
attach/detach, but it'll give you a good overview of how we work with zones. http://eval.symantec.com/mktginfo/enterprise/white_papers/ent-whitepaper _implementing_solaris_zones_06-2007.en-us.pdf Cheers! Eric Eric Hennessey Director, Technical

Re: [Veritas-ha] Missing Files

2008-07-23 Thread Eric Hennessey
If reinstalling on that one node doesn't work, you should open up a support case. Eric From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of i man Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2008 5:48 AM To: Gene Henriksen Cc: veritas-ha@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-ha] Missing

Re: [Veritas-ha] Implementing Solaris(tm) Zones with VCS, any update?

2008-06-29 Thread Eric Hennessey
The latest version of our zone agent supports zone attach-detach, which isn't reflected in that paper. The essential best practices outlined in that paper, though, remain the same. Eric From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rodolfo Bonnin Sent: Thursday, June 26,

Re: [Veritas-ha] AutoStartList: One or both nodes?

2008-06-25 Thread Eric Hennessey
According to the docs, if the system identified in AutoStartList isn't up when all others are up after a full cluster start, the SG remains offline. So if you really don't care which system hosts a given SG on cluster start, you can omit the AutoStartList attribute. Eric From: [EMAIL

Re: [Veritas-ha] OS timezone change and VCS behavior.

2008-03-08 Thread Eric Hennessey
In short, VCS has no real dependency on time of day, so you won't run into any issues. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Joshua Fielden Sent: Friday, March 07, 2008 11:05 AM To: Rodolfo Bonnin; veritas-ha@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re:

Re: [Veritas-ha] Solaris upgrade in a cluster - how to minimizedowntime ?

2008-02-12 Thread Eric Hennessey
This is perfectly do-able with VCS 4.1, since 4.1 supports Solaris 8, 9 and 10. The general procedure at a high level is: 1. Freeze all service groups 2. Upgrade an idle node in the cluster 3. Once the upgraded node reboots and rejoins the cluster, unfreeze the service groups running on one

Re: [Veritas-ha] best way for patching of cluster servers

2007-12-10 Thread Eric Hennessey
the cluster join attempt will fail. In addition, when working with CFS and/or SF-RAC clusters the requirements become more stringent as there's an increased risk of failure when running disparate OS versions and patch levels. Cheers! Eric -Original Message- From: Eric Hennessey Sent: Sunday

Re: [Veritas-ha] best way for patching of cluster servers

2007-12-09 Thread Eric Hennessey
member to properly join a VCS cluster. The cluster join process is strictly governed by the version of VCS, not by the OS version. Hope this helps! Eric -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 07, 2007 7:09 PM To: Eric Hennessey Cc: Jim

Re: [Veritas-ha] best way for patching of cluster servers

2007-12-07 Thread Eric Hennessey
From: upen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2007 7:43 PM To: Eric Hennessey Cc: veritas-ha@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-ha] best way for patching of cluster servers Thanks Eric One question, Does Veritas/symantec provide support for Patching Sun

Re: [Veritas-ha] best way for patching of cluster servers

2007-12-07 Thread Eric Hennessey
from Sun. See the following site: http://sunsolve.sun.com But we've supported mixed Solaris versions and patch levels for several releases of VCS. Eric -Original Message- From: Jim Senicka Sent: Friday, December 07, 2007 8:26 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'; Eric Hennessey Cc: 'veritas-ha

Re: [Veritas-ha] Can I use Solaris 10 / VCS connected to a shared Firewire Drive?

2007-11-04 Thread Eric Hennessey
VCS with RAC requires SCSI-3 capable disks for I/O fencing, so this wouldn't work. From: F.A [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, November 04, 2007 6:23 PM To: veritas-ha@mailman.eng.auburn.edu; Eric Hennessey Subject: Can I use Solaris 10 / VCS connected

Re: [Veritas-ha] Need Best Practices for upgrading Hardware, Solaris 8 to 9 Veritas 4.1 for Oracle from MP1 to MP2

2007-10-10 Thread Eric Hennessey
This question was also posted to the Symantec forums, and I responded there: It seems to me that the fact you're migrating to a new server makes this easy: Build out the new servers using the target OS version/patch level. Install appropriate Oracle s/w on the new server. Install target

Re: [Veritas-ha] procedure to replace a mirrored disk / LUN with multiple mirrored volumes in VCS environment

2007-07-10 Thread Eric Hennessey
As long as at least one plex in the volume is available, VCS will detect no change in the state of any configured Volume or Mount resources. That said, it's always best practice to freeze a service group when mucking about with any resources under that service group's control. Eric

Re: [Veritas-ha] Odd behavior from DiskGroup monitor

2007-06-17 Thread Eric Hennessey
How heavily loaded is this server? From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Anand Ganesh Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2007 1:54 PM To: Tom Riemer; veritas-ha@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-ha] Odd behavior from DiskGroup monitor

Re: [Veritas-ha] load-balancing in VCS

2007-04-06 Thread Eric Hennessey
VCS used to do something like this with a version called VCS Traffic Director. We decided that it was better to let load balancers do what load balancers do, and put one in front of a VCS cluster running a parallel service group. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL

Re: [Veritas-ha] Veritas Volume Replicator in ReplicatedDataClusterquestion

2007-03-15 Thread Eric Hennessey
And the use of a steward is HIGHLY recommended. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jim Senicka Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2007 10:10 AM To: Cronin, John S; Pavel A Tsvetkov; Veritas-ha@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-ha] Veritas

Re: [Veritas-ha] Veritas Volume Replicator in Replicated Data Clusterquestion

2007-03-13 Thread Eric Hennessey
RDCs are supported only with synchronous replication, regardless of the type of replication used. It doesn't matter if it's VVR or some form of array-based replication. Eric _ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Pavel A Tsvetkov Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2007

Re: [Veritas-ha] LLT Mac address discrepancy

2006-12-14 Thread Eric Hennessey
This looks similar to something I used to see when the EEPROM variable use_local_mac_address was set to false. Have you checked that on all nodes? Alternatively, check and make sure that each NIC from each system is on its own private network/VLAN. Eric -Original Message- From: [EMAIL

Re: [Veritas-ha] HA nodes Patch levels

2006-11-13 Thread Eric Hennessey
While we recommend same OS rev and kernel patch, it's not a requirement. Differences should be transitional, though. For instance, VCS 5.0 supports Solaris 8, 9 and 10. Therefore, you can mix Solaris 8, 9 and 10 nodes in the same cluster while you're in the midst of getting all nodes

Re: [Veritas-ha] NotifierMngr not behaving as i expect

2006-09-18 Thread Eric Hennessey
It appears you have the notifier configured correctly. You should open a support case on this. Eric -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Stoyan Angelov Sent: Friday, September 15, 2006 3:39 PM To: veritas-ha@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: