Clustering And Fabric Zoning; Fabric Zoning And Lun Security For Multiple Operating Systems - HP XP20000/XP24000 Configuration Manual

6. Click Partitions, New, and select a device.
7. Click Create, click NSS pools, click New, and name the pool. The pool name and volume
name can be the same.
8. Click Create, click NSS Logical Volume, select New, name the volume, then select the pool.
9. Select Allow volume quota to grow to pool size.
10. Leave the default settings on the next page and click Finish.

Clustering and fabric zoning

If you plan to use clustering, install and configure the clustering software on the servers.
Clustering is the organization of multiple servers into groups. Within a cluster, each server is a
node. Multiple clusters compose a multi-cluster environment. The following example shows a
multi-cluster environment with three clusters, each containing two nodes. The nodes share access
to the disk array.
Figure 4 Multi-cluster environment (Novell NetWare)
Within the SAN, the clusters must be homogeneous (all the same operating system). Heterogeneous
(mixed operating systems) clusters are not allowed. How you configure LUN security and fabric
zoning depends on the SAN configuration.

Fabric zoning and LUN security for multiple operating systems

You can connect multiple clusters with multiple operating systems to the same switch and fabric
using appropriate zoning and LUN security as follows:
Storage port zones can overlap if more than one operating system needs to share an array
port.
Heterogeneous operating systems can share an array port if you set the appropriate host
group and mode. All others must connect to a dedicated array port.
Use LUN Manager for LUN isolation when multiple hosts connect through a shared array port.
LUN Manager provides LUN security by allowing you to restrict which LUNs each host can
access.
Installing and configuring the host 43