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Installation/Upgrade Issues

Novell Cluster Services

This chapter contains the following subsections:
"Installation/Upgrade Issues" on page 59
"Other Issues" on page 60
Perform Cluster Pre-upgrade from an NT Workstation
You must run the Deployment Manager option to prepare your cluster for an
upgrade from an NT workstation rather than from a Windows 9x workstation.
Also ensure that your cluster-enabled volumes are in the Running state. Use
Cluster View in ConsoleOne
cluster volume resource.
Shared Cluster Volumes Disabled in NetWare Deployment Manager
Shared volumes are disabled after you complete the Prepare a Novell Cluster
for Upgrade step in NetWare Deployment Manager. Once the upgrade to
NetWare 6 is complete, the shared volumes are re-enabled.
Do Not Create Traditional Volumes during Cluster Upgrade
Do not create new traditional volumes on NetWare 5 servers when upgrading
a cluster from NetWare 5 to NetWare 6.
After one NetWare 5 server in the cluster is upgraded to NetWare 6, upgraded
NSS volumes on shared storage might appear as free space in a traditional
partition. Creating a volume on the free space will corrupt the NSS volume.
to check the state of each corresponding
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