Hi Misha,

To clarify this point.

 > Doesn't this restrict the number of  clusters that can be formed inside
 > a box to the number of HBA's available on the box? How well does this
 > scale ? Upto 4 nodes within a box ?
 >

        The granuality is on a per *disk* basis, not on a per HBA basis.
So you should be able to create many guest domains.

-ashu

Misha Chawla Shanker wrote:
> Hi Alex,
> 
> 
> On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 9:24 AM, Alexandre Chartre 
> <Alexandre.Chartre at sun.com <mailto:Alexandre.Chartre at sun.com>> wrote:
> 
> 
>      Sun Cluster support in guest domain is currently being qualified and
>     it will be officially support on S10U5 with Sun Cluster 3.2U1 (+ some
>     patches). The support is planned to be announced when LDoms 1.0.3 is
>     released.
> 
>      Sun Cluster in guest domain with Nevada should work since build 80
>     (assuming you use a version of Sun Cluster which works on Nevada).
> 
>      Note that there are some limitations, the main ones in your case is
>     that Sun Cluster shared disks in guest domain have to be virtual disks
>     which backend are physical SCSI disks/luns.
> 
>      Also the same disk should not be exported to different guest domains
>     using the same disk path. The same disk have to be exported to different
>     guest domains using disk paths through different SCSI controllers/HBA.
> 
> 
> Doesn't this restrict the number of  clusters that can be formed inside 
> a box to the number of HBA's available on the box? How well does this 
> scale ? Upto 4 nodes within a box ?
> 
> Regards,
> Misha.
> 
> 
>     alex.
> 
>     Maciej Browarski wrote:
>      > Hello,
>      > Is there any chance to have cluster between 3 GUEST Logical Domain on
>      > one physical server? (I use Nevada 85 and openexpress 02/08)
>      > Or Cluster software install on Guest LDOMS some drivers, which need
>      > access to real hardware ?
>      >
>      > Regards,
>      >
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