Chapter 15. Monitoring And Updating An Ibm Serveraid Cluster Solution; Checking The Ownership Of A Physical Drive - IBM ServeRAID User Reference

Chapter 15. Monitoring and updating an IBM ServeRAID
Cluster Solution
You can use the ServeRAID Manager program to check the ownership of a physical
drive on another server or to add or remove a logical drive in the cluster. The
ServeRAID Manager program supports three features for cluster functions:
v View shared drives
v Validate cluster
v Configure for clustering
Note: Make sure that you installed the ServeRAID Manager program on your

Checking the ownership of a physical drive

A physical drive that is owned (and configured) on Server B will appear in the ready
or defunct state on Server A. Complete the following steps to determine whether a
ready drive is owned by the other server:
1. In the ServeRAID Manager tree, click the controller that contains the ready
Figure 41. ServeRAID Manager window
2. Click Actions → Clustering actions → View shared drives. The "View shared
3. Click Enable view shared drives.
4. Select the SCSI channel and SCSI ID of a physical drive on a shared channel.
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server. For instructions, see "Installing the ServeRAID Manager program" on
page 93.
drives. A window similar to the following opens.
drives" window opens.
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