Managing Your Cluster; Creating A Highly Available File Server Instance - Dell PowerVault NX1950 Installation And Troubleshooting Manual

Managing Your Cluster

Creating a Highly Available File Server Instance

In the Dell™ PowerVault™ NX1950 cluster solution, all cluster nodes must
be configured with a Highly-Available File Server Instance to access the
resources of the cluster. This creates a cluster resource group that includes a
network name and IP address allowing the file shares that are provisioned on
the Highly-Available Server Instance to failover between nodes.
To create a Highly-Available Server Instance, follow the procedure below:
1 Go to the PowerVault NX1950 Management Console and launch the
PowerVault NX1950 Initial Configuration Tasks wizard.
2 Click File Server Management (Local).
3 In the Actions pane, click Edit Server Configuration to start the
creation wizard.
4 In the Customize this system section, click Create a highly available file
server instance.
5 After the Highly available file server instance wizard launches, enter the
name, IP address, and the Subnet mask for the IP address and then
click OK. The process of creating a highly-available server instance begins
and a progress bar indicates the status of this process.
NOTE:
When you create a Highly-Available Server Instance on a cluster node
using the PowerVault NX1950 Initial Configuration Tasks wizard, the status of the
Highly-Available Server Instance is not visible to the other nodes within the cluster.
This behavior is expected and is behaving as designed. To access the Highly-
Available Server Instance, each node in the cluster must have ownership of
the instance.
After this process is complete, all nodes have access to the cluster
resource group.
NOTE:
To set up Snapshots for iSCSI Targets, see the Dell PowerVault NX1950
Systems End-to-End Deployment Guide for iSCSI on the Dell Support website at
support.dell.com.
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