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Set up a distributed Service Manager Service Portal cluster

This section describes the detailed steps to set up a distributed Service Manager Service Portal cluster.

Prerequisites

Before you proceed, make sure that you have met the following prerequisites:

  • Five (or more) VMs are available for the distributed Service Manager Service Portal cluster.
  • For the minimum hardware requirements of each VM, see Meet the system requirements. For the supported platforms, see the Service Manager support matrix.
  • You have made a note of the fully qualified domain names (FQDNs) and IP addresses of the five (or more) VMs.

    This section uses the following items to refer to the host FQDNs.

    Note This section uses five Service Manager Service Portal nodes as a sample configuration. However, you can add more nodes according to your needs.

    Item Description
    <LB node host FQDN> FQDN of the load balancer node host
    <application node 1 FQDN> FQDN of the Service Manager Service Manager Service Portal application node 1 host
    <application node 2 FQDN> FQDN of the Service Manager Service Manager Service Portal application node 2 host
    <master DB node FQDN> FQDN of the Service Manager Service Manager Service Portal master database node host
    <slave DB node FQDN> FQDN of the Service Manager Service Manager Service Portal slave database node host
  • You have obtained one virtual IP address, which will be used as the DB VIP (a virtual IP address for the database nodes).

The setup process consists of the following tasks.