Working with an international IT services company, Kanatek designed, i nstalled and implemented five SUN servers and Symantec Cluster Server (VCS) software running on four of the five servers. Storage for the clusters was provided by an EMC subsystem connected to a SAN. In addition, Kanatek installed a SUN E280 server connected to an S1 storage system.

The VCS configuration was comprised of two clusters, each with two nodes. The clusters were configured in Active/Standby mode, where if the active node fails, the services will fail over to the standby node in the same cluster.

Each VCS cluster was configured with one VCS Service Group. Each group monitors the following resources:

• Public Network Interface
• Virtual IP address
• Volume Manager Disk Groups
• Volume Manager
• Volume Manager File System mount points
• Oracle 8.x application
• MySAP CRM v3.0 application

At the end of the installation, acceptance tests were successfully conducted to demonstrate that the servers were functional and a final Installation and Configuration document was produced. The document outlined the VCS configuration, application binary and data locations, and application fail-over functionality.

The project included the following actions:

• Rackmount all five SUN servers
• Rackmount the S1 SUN storage
• Install and Configure Solaris 8 and CUE software on five SUN servers as per CSC procedures
• Connect the E280 server to the S1 storage
• Connect the V480 and V880 servers to the SAN
• Test basic connectivity between servers and storage
• Verify all nodes have access to their EMC LUNs
• Install Volume Manager on all servers
• Install VCS software on the V480 and V880 servers
• Install VCS Oracle Agent on the V480 and V880 servers
• Configure VCS software with required resources
• Conduct Basic Cluster tests (IP, Disk, Volume)
• Conduct Basic Oracle Agent Tests
• Develop mySAP Custom scripts for both clusters
• Conduct Basic mySAP Tests
  

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