Learn how to set up a single x86-based system with OpenSolaris, configuring a training and development environment for Solaris 10/Solaris Cluster 3.2 and using VirtualBox to establish a two node cluster. These instructions can be found in the white paper "Practicing Solaris Cluster using VirtualBox" by Thorsten Frueauf. The presented configuration can be used to practice using various technologies such as Crossbow, COMSTAR, ZFS, IPsec, software quorum, and zone clusters.

The example host system used is a Toshiba Tecra M10 Laptop with these hardware specifications: 4 GB main memory, Intel Core 2 Duo P8400@2.26Ghz, 160 GB SATA hard disk, 1 physical network nic (1000 Mbit) – e1000g0, and 1 wireless network nic (54 Mbit) – iwh0. Frueauf advises that the system should at least have a minimum of 3GB of main memory in order to host two VirtualBox OpenSolaris guest systems. OpenSolaris 2009.06 build 111 is installed on the laptop.

In detail, Frueauf covers the following:

• Host Configuration
• BIOS Configuration
• OpenSolaris Configuration: Network Configuration, Filesystem Configuration, COMSTAR / iSCSI Target Configuration
• Install VirtualBox
• Install rdesktop
• Download Solaris 10 05/09 (Update 7) ISO image
• Download Solaris Cluster 32 01/09 archive
• VirtualBox Configuration
• VirtualBox Guest Configuration: Virtual Disk Configuration, Virtual Machine Configuration
• VirtualBox Guest Solaris Configuration: First Guest Installation (S10-U7-SC-32U2-1), Second Guest Installation (S10-U7-SC-32U2-2)
• Getting Crash dumps from Solaris guests: Booting Solaris with kernel debugger enabled, How to break into the kernel debugger, Forcing a crash dump, Crash dump analysis with Solaris CAT
• Solaris Cluster Configuration: Solaris Cluster Installation, First node cluster installation (s10-sc32-1), First node cluster configuration (s10-sc32-1), Second node cluster installation (s10-sc32-2), Second node cluster configuration (s10-sc32-2)
• iSCSI Initiator Configuration
• ZFS zpool Configuration for Data
• Software Quorum Configuration
• IPsec Configuration for the cluster interconnect
• Zone Cluster Configuration: First Zone Cluster Configuration (zc1)
• Second Zone Cluster Configuration (zc2): Resource Group and HA ZFS Configuration (zc1), HA MySQL Configuration (zc1) HA Tomcat Configuration (zc1)
• Scalable Apache Configuration (zc2)

The information contained in this 42-page document can be used as a step-by-step guide to setup any x86 based system that is capable to run OpenSolaris, Frueauf advises.

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Practicing Solaris Cluster using VirtualBox - Frueauf's white paper

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