Symantec manual Installing and configuring VCS 5.0 RU3, Overview of tasks

60Installing and configuring VCS Installing and configuring VCS 5.0 RU3

cluster configuration. The installvcs program prompts for cluster information, and creates VCS configuration files without performing installation.

See “Configuring the basic cluster” on page 67.

The -configureoption can be used to reconfigure a VCS cluster. VCS must not be running on systems when this reconfiguration is performed.

If you manually edited the main.cf file, you need to reformat the main.cf file.

Installing and configuring VCS 5.0 RU3

The example installation demonstrates how to install VCS on two systems: galaxy and nebula. The example installation chooses to install all VCS RPMs and configures all optional features. For this example, the cluster’s name is vcs_cluster2 and the cluster’s ID is 7.

Figure 4-1illustrates the systems on which you would install and run VCS.

Figure 4-1	An example of a VCS installation on a two-node cluster
Node: galaxy		Node: nebula
eth1	VCS private network	eth1
eth2		eth2
eth0		eth0

Public network

Cluster name: vcs_cluster2

Cluster id: 7

Overview of tasks

Table 4-3lists the installation and the configuration tasks.