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Operating Systems Solaris Available design options for a cluster hosting many different virtualized Solaris versions Post 302902236 by Lyxix on Monday 19th of May 2014 02:40:36 PM
Old 05-19-2014
Oracle Available design options for a cluster hosting many different virtualized Solaris versions

Good day, everyone, and thanks first off for reading my question.

So, I have been Googling and reading oracle documentation for the past couple weeks, and I am just getting more and more confused as to what I need to do, and I would really appreciate some guidance or at least pointing me to what specifically I should be reading.

Situation: We have several 10+ year old Solaris systems, running either Solaris 8 or 10, that hold several mission-critical systems for business operation. These systems are rapidly dying and need to be migrated to a newer system. They are old systems that require very few resources to run, but are critical nonetheless.

So far: We have purchased four T5220 SPARC servers, with 8 cores and 64GB of RAM each. They have arrived, and I am ready to start building the "solution".

The intent: To be able to take system images of these old systems, virtualize them, and have them run on some type of high-availability cluster solution that will keep them operational, even if one (or possibly two) of the four physical T5220 servers failed.

Question: How should I do this? It seemed like a simple idea to start out with. My initial thoughts were to install Solaris 11 on each of the four servers, cluster them together with Oracle cluster, run a Hypervisor of some type as a cluster application (Oracle VM?) on top of the physical cluster, and then drop all of the virtual machines on top of that hypervisor. That way, the virtual machines should run uninterrupted if a cluster node fails.

Is this feasible? Possible? What is the right terminology here so I know what to be researching? I didn't think this would be so hard, but I can't even find a good white paper/document to read - they all seem to be focused to something other than what I'm looking for.

Any suggestions for how I should accomplish this or where I can go to find the information I'm looking for?

Thanks in advance for all your help.

-Lyxix
 

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clusvcadm(8)						       Red Hat Cluster Suite						      clusvcadm(8)

NAME
clusvcadm - Cluster User Service Administration Utility SYNOPSIS
clusvcadm [-d <service> ] [-e <service> ] [-l] [-u] [-S] [-m <member> ] [-r <service> ] [-R <service> ] [-M <service> ] [-Z <service> ] [-U <service> ] [-s <service> ] [-v] DESCRIPTION
The clusvcadm command allows an administrator to enable, disable, relocate, and restart user services in a cluster. In order to perform cluster service operations, the cluster daemons must be running (and have quorum) on the member system on which the command is invoked. OPTIONS
-d <service> Stops and disables the user service named service -e <service> Enables and starts the user service named service -l Lock services in preparation for cluster shutdown. This should only be used if the administrator intends to perform a global, clus- ter wide shutdown. This prevents services from starting (but not stopping, like -Z does). Once the cluster quorum is dissolved, this state is reset. If a new instance of rgmanager boots while others are locked, the behavior is undefined. -u Unlock resource group managers. This allows services to start again. -S Display whether the resource group managers are locked or not. This can be used to verify the correct operation of the -l and -u options, but is only useful for debugging. -m <member> When used in conjunction with either the -e or -r options, this specifies the preferred target member on which to start the service. -r <service> Relocates the user service named service to another cluster member. -R <service> Restarts the user service named service on the cluster member on which it is currently running. -M <service> Use a special "migration" operation to move the user service named service to another cluster member. Currently, this is only use- ful for virtual machines. Use of migration usually requires special configuration of the local virtual machine manager in order to work correctly. -Z <service> Freezes the service named service on the cluster member on which it is currently running. This will prevent status checks of the service as well as failover in the event the node fails or rgmanager is stopped. -U <service> Unfreezes the user service named service on the cluster member on which it is currently running. This will re-enable status checks. -s <service> Stops the service named service until a member transition or until it is enabled again. -v Display version information and exit. NOTES
Executing -U (unfreeze) on a service which was frozen in the started state while the service owner is offline results in an undefined (and possibly dangerous) condition. Manually ensure all resources are clear before doing this. SEE ALSO
clustat(8) Jan 2005 clusvcadm(8)
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