Novell BUSINESS CONTINUITY CLUSTERING 1.0 - ADMINISTRATION Manual page 27

To create and mirror NSS partitions:
1 Start NSSMU by entering NSSMU at the server console of a cluster server.
2 Select Partitions from the NSSMU main menu.
3 Press the Insert key and select the device on your shared storage system where you want to
create a partition.
If a device is marked as sharable for clustering, all partitions on that device are automatically
sharable.
Device names are not changeable and might be labeled something like 0x2 or 0x1.
If Cluster Services was previously installed and shared disk partitions were already created, the
Partitions List will include this information.
4 Select NSS as the partition type, then specify the partition size and, if desired, an NSS pool
name and label.
If you specify a pool name, a pool by that name will automatically be created on the partition. If
no pool name is specified, you will have to create a pool on the partition later.
4a If you chose to create a pool, choose whether you want the pool to be activated and cluster
enabled when it is created.
The Activate on Creation feature is enabled by default. This causes the pool to be
activated as soon as it is created. If you choose not to activate the pool, you will have to
manually activate it later before it can be used.
The Cluster Enable on Creation feature is also enabled by default. If you want to cluster
enable the pool at the same time it is created, accept the default entry (Yes) and continue
with Step 4b. If you want to cluster enable the pool at a later date, see the
Services 1.7 Administration Guide
4b Specify the Virtual Server Name, IP Address, Advertising Protocols and, if necessary, the
CIFS Server Name.
When you cluster-enable a pool, a virtual Server object is automatically created and given
the name of the Cluster object plus the cluster-enabled pool. For example, if the cluster
name is cluster1 and the cluster-enabled pool name is pool1, then the default virtual server
name will be cluster1_pool1_server. You can edit the field to change the default virtual
server name.
Each cluster-enabled NSS pool requires its own IP address. The IP address is used to
provide access and failover capability to the cluster-enabled pool (virtual server). The IP
address you assign to the pool remains assigned to the pool regardless of which server in
the cluster is accessing the pool.
You can select one or all of the advertising protocols. NCP™ is the protocol used by
Novell clients, CIFS is the protocol used by Microsoft clients, and AFP is the protocol
used by Macintosh* clients. Selecting any of the protocols causes lines to be added to the
pool resource load and unload scripts to activate the selected protocols on the cluster. This
lets you ensure that the cluster-enabled pool you just created is highly available to all your
clients.
If you select CIFS as one of the protocols, a CIFS Server Name is also required. This is the
server name CIFS clients see when they browse the network. A default server name is
listed, but you can change the server name by editing the text in the field.
4c Select Create to create and cluster-enable the pool.
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