Installation on first cluster node

Start the LN installation as described in Installing the LN software.

When the environment dialog box is displayed, complete these steps:

  1. Specify an environment name, for example: lncluster.
    Use this environment name for all nodes, which are part of the same cluster.
  2. When the Host name dialog box is displayed, it shows that the installer has detected that the current host is part of a Windows cluster.
  3. When the Destination Directory dialog box is displayed, specify the name of the BSE directory.
    • This directory must be on a cluster disk separate from the Quorum disk and separate from the database disk. Notice that the installer mentions the available cluster disks.
    • The Normal Windows cluster installation requires only to be chosen for the first node when you run the Installation Wizard. For additional nodes, you must select minimal Windows cluster porting set only installation.
  4. Click Next. When a message is displayed complete step 5.
  5. Click No to return to the Destination Directory dialog box. Use the Windows tools to move the used disk drive resource to the current cluster node. It is required the disk is owned by the current cluster node.
  6. Click Yes, the Setup Type dialog box is displayed.
  7. Continue with the installation as described in Installing the LN software.

    The installation Wizard creates an LN Environment resource for the used BSE in an isolated cluster application group. Every BSE has its own cluster application group in the cluster. The name of the resource group in the cluster is fixed, and cannot be changed. All BSE related cluster resources must stay together (for example, disk resource, client access point). The Installation Wizard takes care of moving the involved disk resource to the BSE cluster application group and associated LN Environment cluster resource. The Installation Wizard does not create a client access point (a.k.a. as cluster network name). The cluster administrator has to create a client access point where Infor client applications can connect to the cluster aware BSE installation. IPv4 and IPv6 addresses are supported by LN.

    It is required that the node, on which a full BSE installation is performed owns the cluster disk of the BSE directory. In case the cluster disk is not owned, only so-called 'minimal cluster' installations are possible. After the installation on the first node has finished, you must run the installation wizard on the other nodes of the cluster. Use the so-called 'minimal cluster' installation. The minimal cluster installation prepares the required steps to make the BSE cluster aware on the other cluster nodes.