This is the first article about Sun cluster aka oracle Solaris cluster on UnixArena. This Oracle Solaris cluster series articles will cover the build of a two-node cluster running Solaris Cluster 4.1 on Solaris 11.The intention of making the cluster will be configuring High availability local zone aka failover local zones.We have done the same […]
Solaris Linux Interview Questions – Cluster
As we all know that attending interview is one of the toughest job.Because, you never know the interviewer expectation and his mindset.He/She may be started asking questions which are related their current working environment and interviewee may not know the those setups. Companies also adding more competencies to filter the candidates. One of the important skill sets to […]
How to Configure ISCSI target in Solaris 11 ?
Solaris 11 has integrated with COMSTAR to configure ISCSI devices. You can easily setup COMSTAR ISCSI target and make the volume available over the network. As you know ISCSI is very cheap compare to our traditional SAN environment.With help of Infiniband interface, I am sure we can definitely match the FC SAN performance on ISCSI devices.Here we will see how […]
How to Provision ISCSI target LUNS in Open-E DSS ?
In the Open-E DSS V7 series, we have seen the installation and initial setup of open-e the data storage management software.Here we will see how to add the disks to the Open-E volume manager and how to create a logical volume. In the end of this article, you can see how to create a new ISCSI target […]
How to Install OPEN-E DSS V7 ? Data Storage Software
Open-E DSS V7 is an enterprise data storage management operating system. It provides a ISCSI, NAS,SAN and InfiniBand functionalities .Free version of OPEN-E (lite) supports SAN and NAS functionalities. Compare to openfiler, Open-E is a very good alternative software for data storage management. It’s a very reliable, with substantially better performance on heavy workloads.Here we are going to see […]
How to Find Out Linux CPU Utilization?
Due to huge resources demands from the newer applications , anytime your Linux box in to CPU bottle neck.As a system admin, we need to find out who and what has occupied the system CPU’s.To free up the CPU usage , you may need to contact the owner of the process and it most likely […]
How to Perform Live Migration of KVM Guest in Redhat Cluster ?
I got so many emails that how to configure the redhat cluster to migrate redhat virtual guest(KVM guests) from one cluster node to another and we have seen how to configure it in the previous post.Once the cluster configuration is done ,we are good to test the live migration.Before proceeding to the live migration,we will do some manual test by […]
How to Add KVM Guest on Redhat Cluster as a Service?
I have been trying from so long time to add the KVM virtual guest under redhat cluster for High availability virtual guest.So that virtual machines can automatically move from one node to another if anything happen to the parent server.Its similar to VMWARE ESX cluster where virtual machines can migrate automatically from one server to another. After […]
How to Install Cluster LVM2 and GFS2 on Redhat Linux ?
As you know Linux deployment is increasing day by day.Everybody have a question that whether Linux can fulfill the older enterprise operating systems like IBM AIX ,Sun Solaris or HP-UX. Most of the customers thinks that Linux can’t fulfill but by merging one or more Linux system can fulfill the requirements and that is much cheaper than […]
How to Configure Redhat Cluster in Linux ?
Once the redhat cluster package installation has been done,you can start configuring new cluster using luci which is web based graphical user interface available in Redhat Linux. Luci can be installed any management host(Redhat Linux to manage all the Redat clusters which are available in your environment.) Here i have installed “luci” on the one of the […]