Configuring Shared Disks; Verifying Disk Access And Functionality; Configuring Cluster Service Software; Using Failover Cluster Management - HP X1000 System User's Manual

Configuring shared disks

Use the Windows Disk Management utility to configure additional shared disk resources. Verify that
all shared disks are formatted as NTFS and are designated as Basic.
Additional shared disk resources are automatically added into the cluster as physical disk resources
during the installation of cluster services.

Verifying disk access and functionality

Write a file to each shared disk resource to verify functionality.
At this time, shut down the first node, power on the next node and repeat the Verifying Disk Access
and Functionality step above for all cluster nodes. When it has been verified that all nodes can read
and write from the disks, turn off the cluster nodes and power on the first, and then continue with this
guide.

Configuring cluster service software

Failover Cluster Management provides the ability to manage, monitor, create and modify clusters and
cluster resources.

Using Failover Cluster Management

Failover Cluster Management shows information about the groups and resources on all of your clusters
and specific information about the clusters themselves.

Creating a cluster

During the creation of the cluster, Failover Cluster Management will analyze and verify the hardware
and software configuration and identify potential problems. A comprehensive and easy-to-read report
is created, listing any potential configuration issues before the cluster is created.
Some issues that can occur are:
• No shared disk for the Quorum disk. A shared disk must be created with a NTFS partition at least
50 MB in size.
• Use of DHCP addresses for network connections. All Network adapters must be configured with
static IP addresses in a cluster configuration.
• File Services for Macintosh and Service for NetWare are not supported in a cluster configuration.
• Dynamic Disks are not supported in a cluster configuration.
• Errors appear on a network adapter that is not configured or does not have an active link. If the
network adapter is not going to be used it should be disabled.

Adding nodes to a cluster

Only the Quorum disk should be accessible by the new node while the new node is not a member
of the cluster. The new node should not have access to the other LUNs in the cluster until after it has
joined the cluster. After the node has joined the cluster, the LUNs may be presented to the new node.
Move the physical disk resources over to the new node to confirm functionality.
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