We will get that resolved (Eric and I). Jim Senicka
Sent from my Nokia E62 handheld by goodlink. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 07, 2007 01:11 PM US Mountain Standard Time To: Eric Hennessey Cc: veritas-ha@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-ha] best way for patching of cluster servers Hi Eric, That's funny, I've been told by Veritas Support that Veritas does not support nodes in the same Cluster running at different Solaris patch levels, no less different versions of Solaris. Jon "Eric Hennessey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED] ymantec.com> To Sent by: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> veritas-ha-bounce cc [EMAIL PROTECTED] veritas-ha@mailman.eng.auburn.edu urn.edu Subject Re: [Veritas-ha] best way for patching of cluster servers 12/07/2007 06:12 AM Hi Upen, My guess is you spoke with Sun sales when you asked this question. Try rephrasing your question to your Sun contact. Ask him/her if they will support a collection of systems running Solaris 9 running at different patch levels, without regard to them being clustered. That you're running VCS on these systems isn't Sun's support problem, it's ours, and we unequivocally support mixing not only different patch levels but different Solaris versions in the same cluster. We do this so you can leverage the cluster as an operational support tool to enable rolling upgrades of the OS with a minimum of application down time. The response you got sounds like it came from someone interested in selling Sun Cluster. Just because THEY won't support different patch levels and Solaris versions in the same cluster doesn't mean WE won't. :-) Cheers! Eric From: upen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2007 7:43 PM To: Eric Hennessey Cc: veritas-ha@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-ha] best way for patching of cluster servers Thanks Eric One question, Does Veritas/symantec provide support for Patching Sun servers involved in Veritas -ha cluster. I contacted Sun for support (we have valid gold contract) but they still refused to support as machines are part of veritas cluster. I am not having Veritas contract number but I know that our contract was renewed and I have valid contract. Is there anyway I can find out from symantec/veritas what is my contract number if I am able to give them necessary information-machine serial and company info. I don't know whosoever renewed contract at work place does not seem to be of much help in term of contract number information ... I am not able to see the site properly on my linux machine and may be I am not looking at proper place..if anyone can give me some contact of veritas/symantec where I can find this information about my contract details and support for patching sun after this.. Thanks On Dec 6, 2007 10:25 AM, Eric Hennessey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The typical approach to applying OS patches in a clustered environment is to patch an idle server, let it reboot and rejoin the cluster, and make sure it's running OK. If it is, use the cluster software to switch application(s) from an active server to the one you just patched, and if the app comes up successfully there, apply the patch to the server that's now idle. Keep doing this until all nodes in the cluster have been patched. Eric From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of upen Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2007 4:03 PM To: veritas-ha@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-ha] best way for patching of cluster servers Hi when it is patching of Sun stand alone servers I can patch them and I know after reboot everything will be fine. I wanted to how to patch Veritas-ha clustered Sun OS 5.9 Machines. Right now the cluster service and application services are running on Server 2. I am not sure after patching if something messes the cluster or applications running. Please let me know best practices to update patches on Cluster servers so that machines will have least down time. We are running Veritas-ha with blackboard application services which includes apache + oracle applications too. Please let me know if any more details are required to help.. Thanks in advance -- upen, emerge -uD life (Upgrade Life with dependencies) -- upen, emerge -uD life (Upgrade Life with dependencies) _______________________________________________ Veritas-ha maillist - Veritas-ha@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-ha _______________________________________________ Veritas-ha maillist - Veritas-ha@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-ha _______________________________________________ Veritas-ha maillist - Veritas-ha@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-ha
