The Cluster Edition with the SF for Sybase CE is supported on these platforms:
Solaris 10 on SPARC (Sun Sparc 64)
Redhat Enterprise Linux 5 on x86_64 (Linux AMD 64)
See the Cluster Edition release bulletin and installation guide for your platform for information about required release levels, packages, and patches. See the Veritas Storage Foundation for Sybase CE Release Bulletin and Installation and Configuration Guide, both from Veritas, for a full list of SF for Sybase CE requirements.
The Cluster Edition runs in native or vcs mode. In native mode, the Cluster Edition does not coordinate with a the cluster membership manager; in vcs mode the cluster membership manager cooperates with the Veritas clusterware. See “Membership modes”.
To use the Cluster Edition in vcs membership mode, you must:
Install and configure SF for Sybase CE v5.0 on the host nodes.
Make sure that all Cluster Edition storage, including the master device, user database devices, and the quorum device come from SF for Sybase CE managed storage. This can be either a CVM volume or a CFS file.
Configure the Cluster Edition private networks for the same physical networks as the Veritas LLT links. See “Installing and configuring the Cluster Edition on VCS”.
Using the Cluster Edition in vcs membership mode includes these limitations:
You cannot run more than one instance on a given hardware node, even if the instances are participating in different Adaptive Server clusters.
You cannot have more than four instances or nodes in a cluster.
Instance failures can cause a panic restart of a host node. Keep in mind that, if you plan to run unrelated, critical applications (including other nonclustered Adaptive Servers) on the same node, these applications are shut down when the node restarts.
