2 Solaris servers failover

[laptop8]

Hi,

I'm trying to find Information on what possibilities I have to set up two Solaris 9 servers for failover.

I only have standard services running (eg. NFS, NIS; no database). One server should be always active. The other server should only take over, when the first server fails (active/standby ???).
The premier intend is to have a backup server available, without being physically present to switch.

I'm looking for hours about information about a possible setup. Especially I'm interested on Information on appropriate software.

I think open-source (if available) would do it. But also commercial software would be no problem. but I don't have a clue about the price range of such software, because most softwareproducer seem to make a big secret of their prices.

If someone could point me into the right direction...!?

Sincerely, L.

 

[kHz]

One possibility is Sun Cluster.

 

[bfitzmai]

You can set up NIS so the 1st server is the NIS master and the 2nd server is the NIS slave... I think the commands are ypinit -m <server name> for the master and ypinit -s <server name> for the slave. Both servers will answer NIS requests.

 

[coffeysm]

For NIS you can do bfitz suggestion and make a slave NIS server. That change will be automatic, however, you cannot update the tables on the slave machine. NFS might be a little trickier. You can setup a virtual ip address that shares out the data, and when one goes down it brings the interface online on the backup one. I think you can also specify more then one NFS server in NIS. Are both machines connected to a SAN or some kind of device where they share data?

 

[Annihilannic]

Veritas Cluster Server is another option, not cheap though.

Annihilannic.

 

[sunny1504]

Annihilannic;

Can you provideme documents for Veritas Cluster Server

 

[Annihilannic]

http://www.veritas.com/Products/www?c=product&refId=20

Annihilannic.