Network Power Switches; Console Access - Red Hat GFS 6.1 Administrator's Manual

Chapter 2. System Requirements
Requirement
Device Type
Size
Table 2-3. Fibre Channel Storage Device Requirements

2.6. Network Power Switches

You can fence GFS nodes with power switches and fencing agents available with Red Hat
Cluster Suite. For more information about fencing with network power switches, refer to
Red Hat Cluster Suite Configuring and Managing a Cluster.

2.7. Console Access

Make sure that you have console access to each GFS node. Console access to each node
ensures that you can monitor nodes and troubleshoot problems.
Description
FC RAID array or JBOD
Note: Make sure that the devices can operate reliably
when heavily accessed simultaneously from multiple
initiators.
Note: Make sure that your GFS configuration does not
exceed the number of nodes an array or JBOD
supports.
8 TB maximum supported per GFS file systen.
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