Finalizing The Cluster Conversion - Novell OPEN ENTERPRISE SERVER - CONVERSION GUIDE 12-2010 Manual

Parameter
IP address of this node
Start Cluster Services now
5i On the OES Server Configuration page, scroll down to the Novell Cluster Services entry
to review the summary of the Cluster Services configuration, then click Next.
Wait while Novell Cluster Services is configured.
5j After the configuration is completed, click Finish to exit the OES Configuration page,
then exit YaST.
6 If you have a shared disk system on the cluster, enter
console to verify that the node can see the cluster (SBD) partition on the SAN.
sbdutil -f
7 Start cluster software by going to the
You must be logged in as root to run
8 Add and assign cluster resources to the new Linux cluster node.
For information, see
Cluster Services 1.8.8 Administration Guide for

4.3 Finalizing the Cluster Conversion

If you have converted all nodes in a former NetWare cluster to OES 2 Linux, you must finalize the
conversion process by issuing the
cluster convert
they were stored on Linux cluster nodes into eDirectory. This enables a Linux cluster that has been
converted from NetWare to utilize eDirectory like the former NetWare cluster.
WARNING: After you finalize the cluster conversion, rollback to NetWare is not supported.
To finalize the cluster conversion:
1 Run
cluster convert preview resource_name
cluster node.
The
preview
made when the conversion is finalized. Replace resource_name with the name of a resource
that you want to preview.
Beginning in OES 2 SP3, you can preview the information for all cluster resources by issuing
the command without specifying a resource name.
2 Run
cluster convert commit
the conversion.
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will also tell you the device on the SAN where the SBD partition is located.
/etc/init.d
novell-ncs start
"Configuring Preferred Nodes for a
cluster convert
command moves cluster resource load and unload scripts from the files where
switch lets you view the resource load and unload script changes that will be
at the terminal console of one Linux cluster node to finalize
Action
If the server has multiple network adapters,
select the IP address that Novell Cluster
Services will use for this node.
Deselect the check box. You will start Novell
Cluster Services software on this node
manually for the conversion process.
at the Linux terminal
sbdutil -f
folder and running
novell-ncs start
.
Resource" in the
Linux.
command on one Linux cluster node. The
at the terminal console of one Linux
.
OES 2 SP3: Novell