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Sun Cluster – with local ZFS disks
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.