Novell NETWARE 6-DOCUMENTATION Manual page 641

Marking a Device as Sharable for Clustering
Creating a Partition
Some storage devices exist in a storage area network (SAN). These devices
can be shared by multiple servers in a cluster.
IMPORTANT:
The system hardware does not specify disk drives to come up
automatically as sharable for clustering or not sharable for clustering. You must
manually set different devices according to the configuration of your storage
system.
The following is important information about making drives Sharable for
Clustering:
All portions of an NSS pool must be on a storage device using the
Sharable for Clustering feature. This means if you have a storage pool that
spans multiple devices, all these devices must be either sharable for
clustering or not.
The Sharable for Clustering option is not available for devices that
contain the storage pool SYS: or Volume SYS:.
ConsoleOne does not provide the Sharable for Clustering option for
devices that contain traditional partitions and volumes.
When you add partitions to a mirror group, all partitions in that group
must be either sharable for clustering or not.
1
From ConsoleOne, open the tree you want.
2
Right-click on the server object and select Properties.
3
Click Media > Devices.
4
Select a device.
5
Select Sharable for Clustering.
6
Click OK.
The first task for setting up NSS is to create partitions on your storage devices
for the NSS storage pools and logical volumes.
1
From ConsoleOne, open the tree you want.
2
Right-click the server object and select Properties.
3
Click Media > Partitions > New.
4
Select a device to create a partition on.
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