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Set DNS server................................................................................................................105
Set up email for notification...............................................................................................105
Create cluster and assign a VIP.........................................................................................105
Create a volume and finish creating management group.......................................................106
Management group map view tab.....................................................................................106
Logging in to a management group ...................................................................................106
Configuration Summary overview...........................................................................................106
Reading the configuration summary....................................................................................107
Optimal configurations................................................................................................107
Configuration warnings................................................................................................107
Configuration errors.....................................................................................................108
Configuration guidance....................................................................................................108
Best Practice summary overview..............................................................................................109
Disk level data protection..................................................................................................110
Disk protection using RAID...........................................................................................110
Large single-system SATA cluster....................................................................................110
Disk RAID Consistency.................................................................................................110
Cluster-level data protection...............................................................................................110
Volume-level data protection..............................................................................................111
Volume access.................................................................................................................111
Systems running managers................................................................................................111
Network bonding............................................................................................................111
Network bond consistency................................................................................................111
Network flow control consistency.......................................................................................111
Network frame size consistency.........................................................................................111
Management group maintenance tasks...................................................................................111
Logging in to a management group....................................................................................111
Choosing which storage system to log in to.....................................................................112
Logging out of a management group..................................................................................112
Adding a storage system to an existing management group...................................................112
Starting and stopping managers........................................................................................112
Starting additional managers........................................................................................112
Stopping managers.....................................................................................................113
Implications of stopping managers............................................................................113
Editing a management group............................................................................................113
Setting or changing the local bandwidth priority.............................................................113
Saving the management group configuration information......................................................114
Shutting down a management group.......................................................................................114
If volumes are still connected to servers or hosts...................................................................114
Restarting the management group......................................................................................115
Restarted management group in maintenance mode........................................................115
Manually changing the management group to normal mode.............................................115
Removing a storage system from a management group..............................................................116
Deleting a management group...............................................................................................116
9 Working with managers and quorum........................................................118
Managers overview..............................................................................................................118
Best practice for managers in a management group.............................................................118
Managers and quorum.....................................................................................................119
Regular managers and specialized managers......................................................................120
Failover Managers......................................................................................................120
Virtual Managers........................................................................................................120
Using the Failover Manager...................................................................................................121
Planning the virtual network configuration...........................................................................121
Using the Failover Manager on Microsoft Hyper-V Server......................................................121
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