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Solaris Cluster Express Release Notes

These release notes contain additions, changes, and corrections to information in the Sun Cluster 3.2 documentation as they apply to Solaris™ Cluster Express and Solaris Cluster Express, Geographic Edition with the Open HA Cluster project. Information in the Sun Cluster 3.2 documentation set is valid with code provided in Solaris Cluster Express and Solaris Cluster Express, Geographic Edition, and the Open HA Cluster project, unless otherwise stated here.

Support Changes

Solaris OS - Solaris Cluster Express now runs on Solaris Express Community Edition Build 86.

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New Features

Solaris Cluster Express

The following new features are available in the Solaris Cluster Express release.

Support for Exclusive-IP Zones

You can now configure a zone to set the ip-type to "exclusive", which gives it exclusive access to the NIC or NICs that the zone has been assigned. Applications in such a zone can communicate directly with the NIC or NICs that are available to the zone. Solaris Cluster now supports this feature.

Solaris Cluster Express Geographic Edition Supports Oracle Data Guard Based Replication

SCX Geographic Edition now supports Oracle 10g and 11g Data Guard based replication.

Support for Solaris 9 Branded Zones (Containers)

The HA Container agent was enhanced to support Solaris 9 branded zones (also known as containers) on the SPARC platform. If you need to run particular applications on the Solaris 9 OS, but want to take advantage of the new features of the Solaris 10 OS, you might find this enhancement useful.

Support for PostgreSQL Write Ahead Log Shipping

This release supports PostgreSQL Write Ahead Log (WAL) Shipping. This new feature is included in the HA PostgreSQL agent.

Bug Fixes for Agents

An updated list of bug fixes for agents is available at http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/ha-clusters/ohac/Documentation/ohacds_changelog/.

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Restrictions and Requirements

Solaris Cluster Express has no restrictions and no requirements at this time.

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Known Issues and Workarounds

The following entries describe workarounds to unresolved Solaris Cluster Express and Solaris Cluster Express, Geographic Edition bugs. These workarounds will be removed from these Release Notes as fixes become available in updated versions of the Solaris Cluster Express and Solaris Cluster Express, Geographic Edition code.

Required steps if Solaris secure by default option is enabled need documentation (6558275)

Problem Summary: During installation of Solaris Express, the setting of a restricted network profile disables external access to two network services that Solaris Cluster Express functionality uses:

  • The remote procedure call (RPC) communication service, which is required for cluster communication
  • The Sun Java™ Web Console service, which is required to use the Cluster Manager GUI

Workaround: Restore external access to RPC communication and optionally to the Sun Java Web Console.

  1. Use the following commands to restore external access to RPC communication:

    # svccfg
    svc:> select network/rpc/bind
    svc:/network/rpc/bind> setprop config/local_only=false
    svc:/network/rpc/bind> quit
    # svcadm refresh network/rpc/bind:default
    # svcprop network/rpc/bind:default | grep local_only

    The output of the last command should show that the local_only property is now set to false.

  2. (Optional) Use the following commands to restore external access to the Sun Java Web Console:

    # svccfg
    svc:> select system/webconsole
    svc:/system/webconsole> setprop options/tcp_listen=true
    svc:/system/webconsole> quit
    # /usr/sbin/smcwebserver restart
    # netstat -a | grep 6789

    The output of the last command should return an entry for 6789, which is the port number used to connect to the Sun Java Web Console.

Multiple DATS tests are either uninitiated or unresolved (6571388)

Problem Summary: Some Data Service Automated Test Suite (DATS) tests might fail as UNINITIATED or UNRESOLVED because a resource group that is being queried is not yet fully online. This problem is caused by a timing issue.

Workaround: No workaround is currently available.

SUNWdats pkg install fails if it was installed earlier and uninstalled (6574454)

Problem Summary: A postinstallation script fails if the SUNWdats package was previously installed and uninstalled.

Workaround: Manually import the following XML file:

# svccfg import tcc-dtet.xml

rpc.metad is dumping core when adding disk to set (6579356)

Problem Summary: This issue in Solaris Cluster Express prevents two GEO scenarios, geo_avs_mult_pgs_nonreboot and geo_avs_mult_pgs_reboot, from running.

Workaround: No workaround is currently available.

OSC: Filesystem went into I/O error state while running sds tests as links doesn't exist (6579910)

Problem Summary: The metaset device links are being deleted on the node when that node is added to an existing metaset.

Workaround: Run the /usr/cluster/lib/sc/metaclusterbinddevs command on the node that you add to the metaset.

Example: Suppose there is a metaset named foo in the cluster that already had pnode1 in the metaset. After you run metaset -s foo -a -h pnode2, you must then run metasetbinddevs on pnode2 (after the metaset command returns).

Can't NFS share a ZFS file system with SCX 2/08 using HAStoragePlus (6671094)

Problem Summary: Due to the way that SUNW.HAStoragePlus interacts internally with a Zettabyte File System (ZFS) zpool that SUNW.HAStoragePlus manages, you cannot share a ZFS file system with Solaris Cluster Express 2/08.

Workaround: No workaround is currently available.

SCM GUI should support webconsole 3.1 on Nevada Release (6701123)

Problem Summary: The Sun Cluster Manager (SCM) graphical user interface cannot display the Tasks and Topology tabs in Web Console 3.1.

Workaround: Use the clsetup command to perform the tasks you want.

SCM for GEO (SunPlex for GEO) is not coming up with Nevada Build 86 (6702804)

Problem Summary: Sun Cluster Manager (SCM) for Solaris Cluster Geographic Edition (GEO) is not coming up with Nevada Build 86 (specifically, Web Console 3.1). The link for Solaris Cluster Geographic Edition itself is missing in the main page of the console to launch the application.

Workaround: Before you install any packages on the node, run the following commands:

$> /usr/sbin/smcwebserver stop
$> cp $console_home/import/lib/registrationservlet.jar \
$console_home/private/import/lib
$> /usr/sbin/smcwebserver start

console_home is the console_home property value in the file config.properties.

On the Solaris OS, console_home is /usr/share/webconsole/.