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locking is required, follow the instructions in section “Serviceguard NFS Legacy Package

over CFS Packages with File Locking”.

6.1 Serviceguard NFS Legacy Package over CFS Packages without File

Locking

Each active server in the cluster needs to run an export multi-node package and an

NFS failover package. An export multi-node package is a package that runs on each

server in the cluster and exports all the cluster file systems. Each standby server (i.e. a

server that is an adoptive node for NFS failover packages) needs to have an export

multi-node package running to be able to become active in the event of a failover.

Figure 5 shows an example Serviceguard over CFS configuration with two servers, each

with an NFS failover package and a multi-node export package.

/cfs1

Load

Balancer

Load

Balancer

NFS

Client3

Figure 5. SG NFS over CFS without file locking

NFS

Client1

NFS

Client2

Cluster File System

/cfs2

Shared Storage

Serviceguard NFS servers

NFS Server2 - basil

Failover Package 2

NFS Server1 - thyme

Failover Package 1

/cfs1, /cfs2

NFS Export Multinode Package

Configuring a Serviceguard NFS export package

There should only be one NFS export multi-node package per cluster. This package will

run on each server in the cluster.

Note: All steps in this section must be completed on a single server.

1. Create the nfs-export.conf and nfs-export.cntl files with the cmmakepkg

command. Use the “-p” option to create the nfs-export.conf file and the “-s”