Ensure that you complete the following tasks before launching the VCS Cluster Configuration wizard to configure a VCS cluster:

• Install InfoScale Availability or InfoScale Enterprise on the system on which you want to configure the VCS cluster.

• You must have the following user privileges when you attempt to configure the VCS cluster:

  • Configure Application Monitoring (Admin) privileges when you launch the wizard from the vSphere client.

  • Admin role privileges if you launch the wizard through VOM

• Install the application and the associated components that you want to monitor on the system.

• If you have configured a firewall, ensure that your firewall settings allow access to ports used by Cluster Server installer, wizards, and services.

  Verify that the following ports are not blocked by the firewall:

  Physical environment

  5634, 14161, 14162, 14163, and 14164 At least one port from 14161, 14162, 14163, and 14164 must be open.

• You must not select bonded interfaces for cluster communication. A bonded interface is a logical NIC, formed by grouping several physical NICs together. All NICs in a bond have an identical MAC address, due to which you may experience the following issues:

  • Single Sign On (SSO) configuration failure.

  • The wizard may fail to discover the specified network adapters.

  • The wizard may fail to discover or validate the specified system name.

• In VMware environment, verify that the disks used by the application that you want to monitor are attached to non-shared controllers so that they can be detached from the system and attached to another system.

• The host name of the system must be resolvable through the DNS server or locally, using /etc/hosts file entries.