Getting opportunity to work on cluster environment is very difficult on big companies due to security problem. If you get opportunity also you can’t play much on it since most of the cluster environments will be critical to the client. To learn any operating system cluster, you have to build it by your own and […]
How to configure High Availability zone on Solaris cluster ?
In this article, we will see how we can add local zone as a resource in Solaris cluster to make the zone highly available. In the past we have seen similar setup in veritas cluster. By configuring zone as a resource, if any one node fails ,automatically zone will fly to other node with minimal […]
How to create Resource Group on Solaris cluster ?
This article will help you to create a resource group on Solaris cluster and adding couple of resource to it. Resource group is similar to service group in veritas cluster which bundles the resources in one logical unit. Once you have configured the Solaris two node cluster and added the quorum devices, you can create […]
How to configure Quorum devices on Solaris cluster ?
Once you have configured the Solaris cluster , you have to add the quorum device for additional voting process. Without Quorum devices, cluster will be in installed mode. You can verify the status using “cluster show -t global | grep installmode” command.Each node in a configured cluster has one ( 1 ) quorum vote and […]
How to Deploy VMturbo Operation Manager ?
Virtualization reduced the infrastructure cost by utilizing the hardware more efficiently and offers lot of other benefits.But Managing the virtual infrastructure is one of the difficult task since thousands of virtual objects are involved. Since the virtual machines are sharing the hardwares, we have to identify the critical virtual machines and needs to configure the service […]
How to configure Solaris two node cluster on Solaris 10 ?
Once you have installed the Solaris cluster on Solaris 10 nodes, you can start configuring the Solaris cluster according to the requirement . If you are planning for two node cluster, then you need two Solaris 10 hosts with 3 NIC cards and shared storage .You have to provide two dedicated NIC for cluster heartbeat.Also […]
How to install Solaris Cluster 3.3 on Solaris 10 ?
Here we will see how to install oracle Solaris Cluster 3.3 u2 on Solaris 10 x86 system. I haven’t showed any interest on Solaris cluster but getting many requests to write about it. So i took some time and now i am back with Solaris Cluster series articles which will help you to setup the […]
How to Create a Fake SSD on VMware ESXi for Testing VSAN ?
I have been trying to test VMware VSAN on my VMware workstation . One of the important requirement for VSAN is solid state drive. So i have been in such a situation to make the virtual harddrive as SSD. After lot research over the internet , i have found trick which has been shared by […]
Manually Download VMware tools ISO image from VMware
How to download the VMware tools manually from the VMware website ?. In most organizations, there will be a dedicated VMware support team and where the guest operating will be managed by the windows or Linux/Solaris team according to the operating system model. In this support model, you need the VMware team’s help to attach […]
How to add additional physical NIC to existing VMkernel Link ?
We may need to add the additional network interface card to existing VMkernel link to reduce the network overhead and balance the network load between two are more physical interfaces. Having more than one physical NIC also adds the network redundancy. I have been in a situation to increase the dedicated VSAN network performance due […]