As a follow on to my previous post on using Solaris SMF to manage Cluster, I'll expand my setup and show how to dynamically add data nodes to Cluster and control the new nodes with SMF.

First, the setup. Since I wanted something that would run completely on my laptop, I decided to clone my current OpenSolaris VM (hostname = craigOS_0609) to create a second "machine" (hostname = craigOS_0609_vm2). Thought this would be easy and it was, except for the networking piece. When I just had a single VM, NAT worked fine. However, trying to use two VMs of OpenSolaris with NAT turned out to be problematic. They both ended up with a 10.0.2.15 IP address. Researched it a bit and didn't find anything definitive but did see that bridged networking might be the way to go. Well, after futzing with it for a day or so, it turned out …