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PowerPath for UNIX Installation and Administration Guide
PowerPath in a Cluster Environment
PowerPath in a Sun Cluster 3.0
This section describes how to:
◆ Install PowerPath and Sun Cluster 3.0 in a new cluster, that is,
where neither the PowerPath nor the Sun Cluster 3.0 software is
installed on any host to be included in the cluster.
◆ Integrate PowerPath into an existing Sun Cluster 3.0 cluster.
Installing PowerPath
in a New Sun Cluster
3.0
To install and configure PowerPath and Sun Cluster 3.0 when neither
PowerPath nor Sun Cluster 3.0 is installed:
1. Prepare the cluster environment. Refer to the EMC Host
Connectivity Guides or the Installation Roadmap for FC-Series Storage
Systems and the relevant Sun Cluster documentation.
2. Install PowerPath on all nodes. Refer to Chapter 1, Installing
PowerPath.
3. Install Sun Cluster 3.0 on all nodes. Refer to the relevant Sun
Cluster documentation.
4. Configure the quorum device on all nodes.
You cannot use gatekeepers and VCMDB devices as quorum devices.
5. Initialize the root disk group on all nodes.
6. Initialize PowerPath devices on all nodes.
7. Start cluster services on the master node.
8. Designate/create shared disk groups on the master node.
9. Create logical volumes from the designated shared disks.
10. Register the disk group.
11. Start cluster services on the other (non-master) nodes.