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You can select or deselect the NCP option. It is selected by default, and is the protocol used by
Novell clients. Selecting NCP causes commands to be added to the pool resource load and
unload scripts to activate the NCP
cluster-enabled pool you just created is highly available to Novell clients.
7 Select Create to create and cluster-enable the pool.
8 Repeat
9 Select Partitions from the NSSMU main menu.
10 Select the partition you want to mirror (this might be the partition that was created when you
created the pool) and press the F3 key.
11 Enter a name for the software RAID device that will be created.
For more information on configuring software RAID for NSS, see
Devices (http://www.novell.com/documentation/oes/nss_enu/data/ajhvbk8.html)
Storage Services File System Administration Guide for OES.
12 Select the device with free space or the partition you want to mirror to, then select YES to
mirror the partition.
To ensure disaster recovery, the device you select to mirror should be in another storage array
in the other data center.
13 Repeat
14 Continue with
Creating NSS Volumes
After an NSS partition and pool have been created and the NSS partition has been mirrored, if you
have not already done so, you must create an NSS volume on the pool. To do this, follow the
instructions in
cluster_admin_lx/data/h2mdblj1.html#hil7ix1s)
www.novell.com/documentation/oes/cluster_admin_lx/data/h2mdblj1.html#hil7ix1s)
OES 1 SP2: Novell Cluster Services 1.8.2 Administration Guide for Linux (http://www.novell.com/
documentation/oes/cluster_admin_lx/data/h4hgu4hs.html).
Novell Cluster Services Configuration and Setup
After configuring NSS mirroring and creating a volume on the mirrored NSS partition and pool, if
you did not cluster-enable the NSS pool on the mirrored partition when you created it, do so by
following the instructions in the
www.novell.com/documentation/oes/cluster_admin_lx/data/h2mdblj1.html#hrt0ekvg)
OES 1 SP2: Novell Cluster Services 1.8.2 Administration Guide for Linux (http://www.novell.com/
documentation/oes/cluster_admin_lx/data/h4hgu4hs.html).
When you cluster-enable a shared disk pool, the commands to start and stop the pool resource are
automatically added to the resource load and unload scripts.
Checking NSS Volume Mirror Status
After you have configured NSS mirroring with Novell Cluster Services, you should check to ensure
that it is working properly in a cluster environment.
1 Ensure that the volumes on the cluster-enabled pool are mounted on an assigned server by
entering
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Step 3 to Step 7 for each additional pool you want to create on shared storage.
Step 9 to Step 12 for each additional shared pool that you want to mirror.
"Creating NSS Volumes" on page
"Creating NSS Volumes" (http://www.novell.com/documentation/oes/
"Cluster Enabling NSS Pools and Volumes" (http://
at the server console.
nsscon volumes
protocol on the cluster. This lets you ensure that the
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in the "Setting Up Cluster Services" (http://
Managing Software Raid
in the Novell
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