Cloning SFHA 6.0 installations across multiple Solaris Installations.
Hello,
Can some one please tell me the best and convinient method for cloning SFHA 6.0 installations across multiple Solaris Installations.
We have Solaris LDOM enviornment with multiple Solaris guest LDOMs. For the Operating system, we clone the Vanilla O.S (Solaris 10) by taking the snapshot of the luns (Installed O.S) at the SAN level and then presenting the clones for multiple copies of the operating systems. However we have install SFHA manually on all these enviorments, which consumes a considerable amount of time. Can I Install SFHA 6.0 and then take a snapshot of the san LUN and then present this copy for other O.S. Will this work, considering that the host id is used by SFHA software.
Thanks in Advance.
If you are cloning SF, then you should use:
vxdctl hostid hostid
after cloning to set the correct hostid
See extract fom manual (https://sort.symantec.com/public/documents/sfha/6.0/solaris/manualpages/html/man/volume_manager/html/man1m/vxdctl.1m.html):
hostid Changes the host ID in the volboot file, and on all disks in disk groups currently imported on this machine. It may be desirable to change the VxVM host ID for your machine if you change the network node name of your machine. Regarding licences, if you want to use hostid locked licenses then create image which you are going to clone using keyless licencing and then just add licence key after cloning.
Mike