HP Serviceguard Extended Distance Cluster for Linux A.01.01 Deployment Guide, Third Edition, May 2008

Configuring your Environment for Software RAID
Installing the Extended Distance Cluster Software
Chapter 3 61
Installing the Extended Distance Cluster
Software
This section discusses the supported operating systems, prerequisites
and the procedures for installing the Extended Distance Cluster
software.
Supported Operating Systems
The Extended Distance Cluster software supports the following
operating systems:
•Red Hat 4 U3 or later
• Red Hat 5 or later
• Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 or later
Prerequisites
Following are the prerequisites for installing Extended Distance Cluster
software (XDC):
• HP Serviceguard for Linux A 11.18
XDC A.01.01 works with only HP Serviceguard A.11.18. So you must
upgrade to Serviceguard A.11.18. For more information on upgrading
to Serviceguard A.11.18, see “Configuring Modular Packages for
Extended Distance Cluster Software” on page 88
• Network Time Protocol (NTP) - all nodes in the cluster to point to the
same NTP server.
Installing XDC
You can install XDC from the product CD. You must install the XDC
software on all nodes in a cluster to enable Software RAID.
Complete the following procedure to install XDC:
1. Insert the product CD into the drive and mount the CD.
2. Open the command line interface.