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PRIMECLUSTER Installation and Administration Guide4.6 Cloud Services
FUJITSU Software

Preface

This manual serves as your starting point for using PRIMECLUSTER in a cloud environment.

This manual explains the workflow of the series of operations from installation to operation management of the PRIMECLUSTER system in a cloud environment.

Target Readers

This manual is intended for all users who use PRIMECLUSTER 4.6 and perform cluster system installation and operation management in a cloud environment. It is also intended for programmers who develop applications that operate on PRIMECLUSTER.

Configuration of This Documentation

This manual consists of five parts, appendixes, and a glossary. The contents of each part are described below.

Part 1 FJcloud-O Environment

Audience: System administrators who build the PRIMECLUSTER system in an FJcloud-O environment
Contents: This part describes the workflow of the series of operations from installation to operation management of the PRIMECLUSTER system in an FJcloud-O environment.

Part 2 NIFCLOUD Environment

Audience: System administrators who build the PRIMECLUSTER system in a NIFCLOUD environment
Contents: This part describes the workflow of the series of operations from installation to operation management of the PRIMECLUSTER system in a NIFCLOUD environment.

Part 3 FJcloud-Baremetal Environment

Audience: System administrators who build the PRIMECLUSTER system in an FJcloud-Baremetal environment
Contents: This part describes the workflow of the series of operations from installation to operation management of the PRIMECLUSTER system in an FJcloud-Baremetal environment.

Part 4 AWS Environment

Audience: System administrators who build the PRIMECLUSTER system in an AWS environment
Contents: This part describes the workflow of the series of operations from installation to operation management of the PRIMECLUSTER system in an AWS environment.

Part 5 Azure Environment

Audience: System administrators who build the PRIMECLUSTER system in an Azure environment
Contents: This part describes the workflow of the series of operations from installation to operation management of the PRIMECLUSTER system in an Azure environment.

Appendix A Using the smart workload recovery feature

Audience: System administrator who creates the PRIMECLUSTER system that uses the smart workload recovery facility.
Contents: This part describes the workflow of the series of operations from installation to operation management of the PRIMECLUSTER system using the smart workload recovery feature provided by PRIMECLUSTER Cloud Edition.

Appendix B Changes in Each Version

Audience: All users who use PRIMECLUSTER 4.6A10
Contents: This appendix describes the changes made to the specifications of PRIMECLUSTER 4.6A20.

Appendix C Release Information

Audience: All users who use the PRIMECLUSTER system
Contents: This appendix lists the main changes in this manual.

Glossary

Audience: All users who use the PRIMECLUSTER system
Contents: This section explains terms used to describe the PRIMECLUSTER system.

Related Documentation

Refer to the following manuals as necessary when setting up the cluster:

Note

The PRIMECLUSTER documentation includes the following documentation in addition to those listed above:

  • PRIMECLUSTER Software Release Guide and Installation Guide

    These are the software release guide and the installation guide provided with each PRIMECLUSTER product. The data is stored on "DVD" of each package. For details on the file names, see the documentation.

Manual Printing

If you want to print a manual, use the PDF file found on the DVD for the PRIMECLUSTER product. The correspondences between the PDF file names and manuals are described in the Software Release Guide for PRIMECLUSTER that comes with the product.

Adobe Reader is required to read and print this PDF file. To get Adobe Reader, refer to Adobe Systems Incorporated's website.

Online Manuals

To allow users to view the online manuals, use the Cluster management server to register each user name to one of the user groups (wvroot, clroot, cladmin, or clmon).

For information on user group registration procedures and user group definitions, refer to "4.3.1 Assigning Users to Manage the Cluster" in "PRIMECLUSTER Installation and Administration Guide."

Conventions

Notation
Prompts

Command line examples that require system administrator (or root) rights to execute are preceded by the system administrator prompt, the hash sign (#). Entries that do not require system administrator rights are preceded by a dollar sign ($).

Manual page section numbers

References to the Linux(R) operating system commands are followed by their manual page section numbers in parentheses - for example, cp(1).

Keyboard

Keystrokes that represent nonprintable characters are displayed as key icons such as [Enter] or [F1]. For example, [Enter] means press the key labeled Enter; [Ctrl-b] means hold down the key labeled Ctrl or Control and then press the [B] key.

Typefaces

The following typefaces highlight specific elements in this manual.

Typeface

Usage

Constant Width

Computer output and program listings; commands, file names, manual page names and other literal programming elements in the main body of text.

Italic

Variables that you must replace with an actual value.

<Constant Width>

Variables that you must replace with an actual displayed value.

Bold

Items in a command line that you must type exactly as shown.

"Constant Width"

The title, documentation, screen, and etc of lookup destination.

[Constant Width]

Tool bar name, menu name, command name, button name, and icon names.

Example 1

Several entries from an /etc/passwd file are shown below:

root:x:0:0:root:/root:/bin/bash
bin:x:1:1:bin:/bin:/bin/bash
daemon:x:2:2:daemon:/sbin:/bin/bash
lp:x:4:7:lp daemon:/var/spool/lpd:/bin/bash

Example 2

To use the cat(1) command to display the contents of a file, enter the following command line:

$ cat file
Notation symbols

Material of particular interest is preceded by the following symbols in this manual:

Point

Contains important information about the subject at hand.

Note

Describes an item to be noted.

Example

Describes operation using an example.

Information

Describes reference information.

See

Provides the names of manuals to be referenced.

Abbreviations
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux is abbreviated as RHEL.

  • FUJITSU Hybrid IT Service FJcloud-O is abbreviated as FJcloud-O.

  • FUJITSU Hybrid IT Service FJcloud-V is abbreviated as FJcloud-V.

  • FUJITSU Hybrid IT Service FJcloud-Baremetal is abbreviated as FJcloud-Baremetal.

  • FUJITSU Hybrid IT Service for Microsoft Azure is abbreviated as "for Azure."

  • FUJITSU Hybrid IT Service for AWS is abbreviated as "for AWS."

  • FJcloud-V sold by FUJITSU LIMITED and NIFCLOUD sold by FUJITSU CLOUD TECHNOLOGIES LIMITED are abbreviated as "NIFCLOUD" in this manual.

  • "for Azure" sold by FUJITSU LIMITED and Microsoft Azure sold by Microsoft Corporation in the United States are abbreviated as "Azure" in this manual.

  • "for AWS" sold by FUJITSU LIMITED and AWS (Amazon Web Services) sold by Amazon.com, Inc. are abbreviated as "AWS" in this manual.

Export Controls

Exportation/release of this document may require necessary procedures in accordance with the regulations of your resident country and/or US export control laws.

Trademarks

Red Hat and Red Hat Enterprise Linux are registered trademarks of Red Hat, Inc. in the U.S. and other countries.

Linux(R) is the registered trademark of Linus Torvalds in the U.S. and other countries.

Oracle and Java are registered trademarks of Oracle and/or its affiliates. Other names may be trademarks of their respective owners.

Amazon Web Services is a registered trademark of Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates in the United States and/or other countries.

Microsoft, Azure, Internet Explorer, and Windows are trademarks of the Microsoft group of companies.

Other product names are product names, trademarks, or registered trademarks of these companies.

Requests

Date of publication and edition

December 2019, First edition
May 2022, Fourth edition
September 2022, 4.1 edition

Copyright notice

All Rights Reserved, Copyright (C) FUJITSU LIMITED 2019-2022.

Revision History

Revision

Location

Edition

Added a note about the assumptions that make switching work.

Appendix A Using the Smart Workload Recovery Feature
A.1.3 Network Design

4.1

Added an explanation of what to do when switching is interrupted in a system that uses the smart workload recovery function.

A.3 Operation

A.3.2 Actions to take when switching is interrupted

4.1