Installing and configuring the Cluster Edition on VCS

To install and configure the Cluster Edition to run on the Veritas cluster subsystem, you must perform steps described in the Veritas documentation and in the following sections.

Perform steps 1 – 6 as described in the Veritas SF Sybase CE Installation and Configuration Guide:

  1. Install and configure Veritas’s SF for Sybase CE.

  2. Configure I/O fencing in Sybase mode.

  3. Create a shared disk group, volume, and mount point for Adaptive Server binary installation ($SYBASE).

  4. Create a shared disk group, volume, and mount point (if using CFS) for the Adaptive Server quorum device.

  5. Create a shared disk group, volume, and mount point (if using CFS) for the Adaptive Server database devices.

  6. Ensure the “sybase” user (or equivalent) has appropriate ownership and access for the storage in step 5

    Perform steps 7 and 8 as described in this book in sections “Installing the Cluster Edition”, “Creating a new Adaptive Server cluster for Storage Foundation integration”, and “Converting an existing cluster to use SF for Sybase CE”:

  7. Install Adaptive Server Cluster Edition.

  8. Create the Adaptive Server cluster or prepare an existing cluster for use.

    Perform step 9 as described in the SF Sybase CE Installation and Configuration Guide.

  9. Using the SF for Sybase CE installer, create a VCS service group for your Adaptive Server cluster. This puts the cluster into vcs membership mode.

    NoteOnce you configure the Cluster Edition in vcs membership mode, start the cluster as part of a VCS service group. If you start the Cluster Edition outside a VCS service group while in vcs mode, the Cluster Edition hangs and shuts down.