Users Guide

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Disaster Recovery
You can recover the Dell DX Cluster Services Node from a number of
hardware or software failures.
NOTE: Contact Dell support if you need assistance on disaster recovery for the DX
Cluster File Server.
Depending on the type of failure, you must:
• Recover the server disk
• Reinstall the operating system
• Reinstall the Cluster Services Node software
• Reinstall the DX Cluster File Server software
• Reinstall Dell OpenManage system management applications
Recovery Solution Map
Keep the following guidelines in mind:
• Reinstallation of the operating system requires you to reinstall all the
applications on the system.
• A non-recoverable failure of the disk group containing the operating
system requires reinstallation of the operating system and all applications.
• For all non-disk related hardware failures, see the
Hardware Owner's
Manual
for the relevant system at support.dell.com/manuals.
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