Create Nss Pools - Novell NETWARE 6-DOCUMENTATION Manual

Create NSS Pools

Novell Cluster Services Overview and Installation
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The new Storage Pools feature in NSS gives you more flexibility in planning
and configuring your storage to work with Novell Cluster Services. More than
one cluster-enabled volume can now be part of a single cluster resource, and
volumes can dynamically grow as needed to take advantage of free disk space.
Only one NSS pool can be created on a partition. Storage pools must be
created prior to creating and cluster-enabling volumes. To learn more about
NSS pools, see "Creating a Storage
Administration Guide.
Using ConsoleOne
In ConsoleOne, on the property page of the Server object, click the Media
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Tab and select NSS pools.
Click New, specify the name and type of pool you want to create, and then
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click Next.
ZLSS is the default pool (LSS) type and should be the type used with
Novell Cluster Services.
Select the partition you just created and then click Next > Finish to create
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the pool.
The Activate on Creation check box is checked by default. This will cause
the pool to be activated as soon as it is created. If you uncheck the check
box, you will have to manually activate the pool later before it can be
used.
Depending on your network configuration and the size of you eDirectory
tree, it could take a while for the pool information to be updated in
eDirectory. You can ensure the pool information is updated immediately
in eDirectory by selecting the pool from the pools list under the Media tab
and then clicking Update NDS.
Repeat the above steps for each additional pool you want to create on
shared storage.
Continue with "Create Cluster Volumes" on page
Using NetWare Remote Manager
The same procedure for creating shared disk partitions using NetWare Remote
Manager is used to create NSS pools. To create an NSS pool on shared storage
using NetWare Remote Manager go to
Pool" in the Novell Storage Services
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Step 1 on page 23.