Verifying Domain Membership; Setting Up A Cluster Account; About The Quorum Disk; Configuring Shared Disks - HP ML110 - ProLiant G5 2TB Storage Server NAS User Manual

Verifying domain membership

All nodes in the cluster must be members of the same domain and able to access a domain controller
and a DNS Server.

Setting up a cluster account

The Cluster service requires a domain user account under which the Cluster service can run. This user
account must be created before installing Cluster service, because setup requires a user name and
password. This user account should be a unique domain account created specifically to administer
this cluster. This user account will need to be granted administrator privileges.

About the Quorum disk

HP makes the following Quorum disk recommendations:
• Dedicate a separate disk resource for a Quorum disk. Because the failure of the Quorum disk
would cause the entire cluster to fail, HP strongly recommends that the disk resource be a RAID 1
configuration.
• Create a partition with a minimum of 50 megabytes (MB) to be used as a Quorum disk. HP
recommends a Quorum disk be 500 MB.
HP recommends assigning the drive letter Q for the Quorum disk. It is also helpful to label the volume
Quorum.
NOTE:
It is possible to change the Quorum disk by clicking the Quorum button. This displays a list of available
disks that can be used for the Quorum disk. Select the appropriate disk, and then click OK to continue.

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

Cluster Administrator (cluadmin) provides the ability to manage, monitor, create and modify clusters
and cluster resources.
136 Cluster administration