Requirement to be able to install Veritas Cluster

[blaine]

Hello,

I would like to know if this is possible to install Solaris 11 + Oracle and a couple of DB and then, at a later time, create install veritas and create a cluster with a second identical server which will be the secondary/passive cluster member?

In other word, is is mandatory to create the cluster before we install Oracle on top?

Thanks in advance!

[Gaurav_S · Accepted solution]

Hi,

Yes it is possible however any specific reason you don't want to install VCS first ?

If this is somehow your requirement though, You can first setup your machine with databases & later install the product & bring the database under VCS control. During the installation of SF product, you can generate the responsefile & use this responsefile for installation on second node. OR you can use the "installonly" option on second node so that only product is installed & later you can run "installsf -configure" command to configure it & couple it with first node of cluster.

Refer below section for using responsefile

https://sort.symantec.com/public/documents/sfha/6.1/solaris/productguides/html/sfha_install/pt05.htm

Also, I would recommend to go with latest version of software i.e 6.1 as it supports solaris 11. You can find the supported oracle matrix in below link

http://www.symantec.com/docs/DOC5081

G

[kjbss · Accepted solution]

If you were not already planning to do so, you can save a lot of effort down-the-road by installing SFHA before installing the Oracle environment and database so that you can place your databases' data files onto disks assigned to a disk group designated for hosting your database.  That way you will already have the storage-level infrastructure set up to support moving that database between hosts (without having to later migrate your database data files onto a shared storage infrastructure).  

All things considered, if you already have the SFHA 6.1 software (which you can get at any time from the Symantec trial-ware site), you can save a LOT of effort by installing SFHA on the one system that you already have, and either configure it as a "one node cluster" or simply not configure the VCS components until you are ready.