How 'suite' it is... - Jackie Gleason The "Availability Suite"

If you have it and you know you have it, then you
have it. If you have it and don't know you have it, you don't have it.
If you don't have it but you think you have it, then you have it.

- Jackie Gleason

Welcome to OpenSolaris, and "Day 1" of Availability Suite.

So you have it, that is the TarBall which contains binary images the OpenSolaris release of Availability Suite. What you will find when expanding this TarBall is a set of parallel directories that contain the SPARC and x64/x86 versions of Availability Suite, a collection consisting of the following eight packages per directory.

• SUNWscmr  - Cache Management (root)
• SUNWscmu  - Cache Management (usr)
• SUNWspsvr - Storage Volume Driver (root)
• SUNWspsvu - Storage Volume Driver (usr)
• SUNWiir   - Point-In-Time Copy (root)
• SUNWiiu   - Point-In-Time Copy (usr)
• SUNWrdcr  - Remote Mirror (root)
• SUNWrdcu  - Remote Mirror (usr)

From a high-level point of view, the first four packages provide the I/O filter driver framework, whereas the remaining four packages; Point-In-Time Copy and Remote Mirror software, provide the two data services of Availability Suite.

The package installation order is as shown above, and also as follows:

pkgadd -d . SUNWscmr SUNWscmu SUNWspsvr SUNWspsvu SUNWiir SUNWiiu SUNWrdcr SUNWrdcu

Once the packages have been added successful, invoking the utility 'dscfgadm' will perform a one-time persistance database creation, and then ask if the data services should be started, of which one will likely answer yes.

There is no need for a Solaris reboot.

For a quick introduction to the two data services try the following, but eventually you may want to read the Availability Suite documentation.

• # sndradm -h
  # man sndradm
• # iiadm -h
  # man iiadm
  

Package removal order is the just the opposite add, and is also as follows:

pkgrm SUNWrdcu SUNWrdcr SUNWiiu SUNWiir SUNWspsvu SUNWspsvr SUNWscmu SUNWscmr

Again, there is no need for a Solaris reboot.