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Hardware planning requires examining the physical hardware
itself. One useful procedure is to sketch the hardware configuration
in a diagram that shows adapter cards and buses, cabling, disks
and peripherals. A sample diagram for a two-node cluster is shown
in Figure 4-1 “Sample
Cluster Configuration ”. Create a similar sketch for your own cluster, and record the
information on the Hardware Worksheet. Indicate which device adapters
occupy which slots, and determine the bus address for each adapter.
Update the details as you do the cluster configuration (described
in Chapter 5). Use one form for each SPU. The
form has three parts: SPU
Information | |
SPU information includes the basic characteristics of the
systems you are using in the cluster. Different models of computers
can be mixed in the same cluster. This configuration model also
applies to HP Integrity servers. HP-UX workstations are not supported
for Serviceguard. On one worksheet per node, include the following items: - Server Number
Enter the series number; for example, rp8400 or rx8620-32. - Host Name
Enter the name to be used on the system as the host name. - Memory Capacity
Enter the memory in MB. - Number of I/O slots
Indicate the number of slots.
Network
Information | |
Serviceguard monitors LAN interfaces as well as serial lines
(RS232) configured to carry cluster heartbeat only. | | | |  | NOTE: Serviceguard does not support communication across routers
between nodes in the same cluster. | | | | |
Serviceguard communication relies on the exchange of DLPI
(Data Link Provider Interface) traffic at the data link layer and
the UDP/TCP (User Datagram Protocol/Transmission Control Protocol)
traffic at the Transport layer between cluster nodes. While a minimum of one LAN interface per subnet is required,
at least two LAN interfaces, one primary and one or more standby,
are needed to eliminate single points of network failure. It is recommended that you configure heartbeats on all subnets, including
those to be used for client data. On the worksheet, enter the following
for each LAN interface: - Subnet Name
Enter the IP address mask for the subnet. Note that heartbeat
IP addresses must be on the same subnet on each node. - Interface Name
Enter the name of the LAN card as used by this node to access
the subnet. This name is shown by lanscan after you install the card. - IP Address
Enter this node’s host IP address(es), to be used
on this interface. If the interface is a standby and does not have
an IP address, enter 'Standby.' An IPv4 address is a string of 4 digits separated with decimals,
in this form: nnn.nnn.nnn.nnn An IPV6 address is a string of 8 hexadecimal values separated
with colons, in this form: xxx:xxx:xxx:xxx:xxx:xxx:xxx:xxx. For more details of IPv6 address format, see the “IPv6
Address Types” - NETWORK_FAILURE_DETECTION
When there is a primary and a standby network card, Serviceguard
needs to determine when a card has failed, so it knows whether to
fail traffic over to the other card. To detect failures, Serviceguard’s
Network Manager monitors both inbound and outbound traffic. The
Network Manager will mark the card DOWN and begin to attempt a failover
when network traffic is not noticed for a time. (Serviceguard calculates
the time depending on the type of LAN card.) The configuration file specifies one of two ways to decide
when the network interface card has failed: INOUT - The default method will count packets sent by polling,
and declare a card down only the count stops incrementing for both the
inbound and the outbound packets. INONLY_OR_INOUT - This option includes the INOUT method. However,
it will also declare a card down if only the inbound count stops.
With this method, Serviceguard tries to validate inbound failure
reports by doing additional remote polling. (New in Serviceguard
Version A.11.16.)
The default is INOUT. The suitability of the new option depends mainly on your network
configuration. “Monitoring
LAN Interfaces and Detecting Failure ” for more information. Also see “Inbound Failure
Detection Enhancement” in the White Papers section of
http://docs.hp.com/hpux/ha -> Serviceguard. - Kind of LAN Traffic
Identify the purpose of the subnet. Valid types include the
following:
Label the list to show the subnets that belong to a bridged
net. Information from this section of the worksheet is used in
creating the subnet groupings and identifying the IP addresses in
the configuration steps for the cluster manager and package manager. If you plan to configure a serial line (RS232), you need to
determine the serial device file that corresponds with the serial
port on each node. If you are using a MUX panel, make a note of the system slot
number that corresponds to the MUX and also note the port number
that appears next to the selected port on the panel. On each node, use ioscan -fnC tty to display hardware addresses and device file
names. For example: This lists all the device files associated with each RS232
device on a specific node. Connect the appropriate RS-232 cable between the
desired ports on the two nodes. Once you have identified the device files, verify
your connection as follows. Assume that node 1 uses /dev/tty0p0,
and node 2 uses /dev/tty0p6. From a terminal on node 1, issue the
following command: From a terminal on node 2, issue the following command: # cat /etc/passwd > /dev/tty0p6 |
The contents of the password file should be displayed on the terminal
on node 1.
On the worksheet, enter the following:
- RS232 Device File
Enter the device file name corresponding to the serial interface
to be used on this node. This parameter is known as SERIAL_DEVICE_FILE in the ASCII configuration file. - Second Node Name
Enter the name of the node that will be connected to this
node via RS232. a node name can be 31 bytes or less.
Setting
SCSI Addresses for the Largest Expected Cluster Size | |
SCSI standards define priority according to SCSI address.
To prevent controller starvation on the SPU, the SCSI interface
cards must be configured at the highest priorities. Therefore, when
configuring a highly available cluster, you should give nodes the
highest priority SCSI addresses, and give disks addresses of lesser
priority. For SCSI, high priority starts at seven, goes down to zero,
and then goes from 15 to eight. Therefore, seven is the highest
priority and eight is the lowest priority. For example, if there
will be a maximum of four nodes in the cluster, and all four systems
will share a string of disks, then the SCSI address must be uniquely
set on the interface cards in all four systems, and must be high
priority addresses. So the addressing for the systems and disks
would be as follows: Table 4-1 SCSI Addressing in Cluster Configuration System or Disk | Host Interface SCSI Address |
|---|
Primary System A | 7 | Primary System B | 6 | Primary System C | 5 | Primary System D | 4 | Disk #1 | 3 | Disk #2 | 2 | Disk #3 | 1 | Disk #4 | 0 | Disk #5 | 15 | Disk #6 | 14 | Others | 13 - 8 |
Disk
I/O Information | |
This part of the worksheet lets you indicate where disk device
adapters are installed. Enter the following items on the worksheet
for each disk connected to each disk device adapter on the node: - Bus Type
Indicate the type of bus. Supported busses are Fibre Channel
and SCSI. - Slot Number
Indicate the slot number in which the interface
card is inserted in the backplane of the computer. - Address
Enter the bus hardware path number, which will be seen
on the system later when you use ioscan to display hardware. - Disk Device File
Enter the disk device file name. To display the
name use the ioscan -fnC disk command.
Information from this section of the worksheet is used in
creating the mirrored disk configuration using Logical Volume Manager.
In addition, it is useful to gather as much information as possible
about your disk configuration. You can obtain information about
available disks by using the following commands: These are standard HP-UX commands. See their man pages for information
of specific usage. The commands should be issued from all nodes after
installing the hardware and rebooting the system. The information
will be useful when doing storage group and cluster configuration.
A printed listing of the output from the lssf command can be marked up to indicate which physical
volume group a disk should be assigned to. Hardware
Configuration Worksheet | |
The following worksheet will help you organize and record
your specific cluster hardware configuration. This worksheet is
an example; blank worksheets are in Appendix F “Blank
Planning Worksheets”. Make as many copies as you need. Complete
the worksheet and keep it for future reference. SPU Information:
Host Name ____ftsys9___________ Series No ______rp8400____________
Memory Capacity ____128 MB _________ Number of I/O Slots ______12_______
=============================================================================
LAN Information:
Name of Name of Node IP Traffic
Subnet __Blue___ Interface ___lan0___ Addr___35.12.16.10__ Type ____HB___
Name of Name of Node IP Traffic
Subnet __Blue___ Interface ___lan2___ Addr_______________ Type _standby_
Name of Name of Node IP Traffic
Subnet __Red____ Interface ___lan1___ Addr___35.12.15.12_ Type _HB, client
=============================================================================
Network Failure Dections: ____INOUT___ =============================================================================
Serial (RS232) Heartbeat Interface Information:
RS232 Device File ___/dev/tty0p0__
Second Node Name ____ftsys10__________
=============================================================================
Disk I/O Information for Shared Disks:
Bus Type _SCSI_ Slot Number _4__ Address _16_ Disk Device File __c0t1d0_
Bus Type _SCSI_ Slot Number _6_ Address _24_ Disk Device File __c0t2d0_
Bus Type ______ Slot Number ___ Address ____ Disk Device File _________
Attach a printout of the output from the ioscan -fnC disk command
after installing disk hardware and rebooting the system. Mark this
printout to indicate which physical volume group each disk belongs to.
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