So, I’ve been grinding away on this for awhile now, and it’s come to light that the solution I’m trying to use won’t work. Yesterday, after many reconfiguration attempts, I got everything running – or so I thought. An AVS mirrored zpool, a valid Sun Cluster Express install with configured resource groups and logical hostnames, etc. The problem was that in a cluster environment, the AVS configuration database has to be on shared storage, like a shares iSCSI volume, a shared SCSI array, or the like. Of course, the point of this whole exercise was that the two nodes would be independent. Having to use a shared filesystem kinda kills that.

Here’s the relevant forum post, and here’s a really nice writeup for how to do all of this inside VirtualBox.