Required Disk Space - Symantec Veritas Cluster Server Installation Manual

24 Planning to install VCS
Hardware requirements

Required disk space

Hardware requirements for a VCS cluster
Table 2-1
Item Description
VCS nodes From 1 to 32 Linux PPC systems running the supported Linux PPC
operating system version.
DVD drive One drive in a system that can communicate to all the nodes in the
cluster.
Disks Typical VCS configurations require that shared disks support the
applications that migrate between systems in the cluster.
The VCS I/O fencing feature requires that all data and coordinator
disks support SCSI-3 Persistent Reservations (PR).
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Disk space
Note:
than the specified disk space.
Network Interface In addition to the built-in public NIC, VCS requires at least one more
Cards (NICs) NIC per system. Symantec recommends two additional NICs.
You can also configure aggregated interfaces.
Fibre Channel or Typical VCS configuration requires at least one SCSI or Fibre Channel
SCSI host bus Host Bus Adapter per system for shared data disks.
adapters
RAM Each VCS node requires at least 256 megabytes.
Confirm that your system has enough free disk space to install VCS.
Table 2-2 shows the approximate disk space usage by directory for the Veritas
Cluster Server RPMs.
Disk space requirements and totals
Table 2-2
Packages /
Required 3 MB
Optional 1 MB
Required and 4 MB
optional total
"About setting up disk-based I/O fencing"
VCS may require more temporary disk space during installation
/opt /usr
271 MB 8 MB
52 MB 0 MB
323 MB 8 MB
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/var Totals
1 MB 283 MB
7 MB 60 MB
8 MB 343 MB