How to install Dollar Universe 6 on a Windows 2008 cluster
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Note: This topic does not explain how to setup a Windows cluster and its administration.
Prerequisites
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2 Windows 2008 R2 servers with "Failover cluster" feature installed
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A shared volume dedicated to Dollar Universe 6 (called "G:" in this example)
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An access point: A name and IP address available and registered in the DNS will be dedicated to Dollar Universe 6 (this IP address is different from the logical IP address already existing and dedicated to cluster administration)
Environment
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Install Dollar Universe 6
Log on to active node of the cluster
Open Failover Cluster administration GUI
Browse the tree to "Services and Applications"
Choose "More actions... > Create empty service or application"
Give it a name (example : <company>_<nodename>) and press enter
Go to "Add a resource... > Access Point"
Enter a name and an IP address (static IP address recommended). You are supposed to have created the corresponding entry in DNS before.
Click Next, confirm and click Next
Access point is created
Right click on it and choose "Bring this resource online", and check the access point with a ping command.
Run Dollar Universe 6 setup
Use Custom Mode and select "Primary cluster installation" option; Enter UVMS coordinates and click Next
Enter company and access point name as node name. Click validate.
Enter an installation directory located on shared volume (example : G:\Shared\QA\DollarU). Click Next
Enter your manager options and click Next.
Enter port (if non default), access point as server hostname, tags if any, and any other area than X. Click Next
Modify bin directory to a local volume. Example : E:\Shared\QA\DollarU (Warning : remove \bin at the end because it is automatically appended by the setup)
Leave the path of the log directory to the shared volume.
Check all your options and click Install.
After installation completes
Checking on Dollar Universe side:
Once installation is finished, check that everything is OK : check universe.log, the DUAS services in services panel, the registering in UVMS (via nodes list in UVC)
Stop all DUAS services (service users included)
Get the values.xml file and copy it to root of shared volume
On the Secondary cluster:
Log on to the 2nd node which is now the active node
Run Dollar Universe 6 setup.
Choose Custom Mode and "Secondary Cluster installation" option. Click Next
Enter the path of the values.xml you had previously copied at the root of the shared volume. Example : G:\
Click Next
Check the installation summary and click Install
Binary and services are installed on this second node in the same local path as on the primary node.
Check that everything is OK on this 2nd node (universe.log, services)
Then
Go back to Failover cluster administration panel
Browse the tree to Services and applications > <your DUAS application> created at at the beginning
Choose "Add a resource ... > Generic Service"
The list of all services is displayed. Choose the DUAS IO_X service
DUAS IO_X service is added to your application and is first shown as offline.
Repeat the 3 previous steps to add all other DUAS services (EEP_X, service user for interactive desktop, and service user for administrator)
Click "Services and applications ><your DUAS application> > Add Storage"
Choose the shared volume where Dollar Universe 6 node is installed. Click OK
Edit properties of resource corresponding to IO_X service
In dependencies tab, add "Access point name" AND "IP address of access point" AND "Cluster disk"
Edit properties of resource corresponding to EEP_X service
In dependencies tab, add "IO_X service"
Edit properties of all other resources corresponding to service users
In dependencies tab, add "IO_X service"
Bring online all resources shown offline in <your DUAS application>
Wait for all of them to be Online.
Additional Information
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