Users Guide

Managing Your Cluster 25

Managing Your Cluster

Creating a Highly Available File Server Instance

In the Dell™ PowerVault™ NX1950 cluster solution, all cluster nodes must

be configured with a Highly-Available File Server Instance to access the

resources of the cluster. This creates a cluster resource group that includes a

network name and IP address allowing the file shares that are provisioned on

the Highly-Available Server Instance to failover between nodes.

To create a Highly-Available Server Instance, follow the procedure below:

Go to the

PowerVault NX1950 Management Console

and launch the

PowerVault NX1950 Initial Configuration Tasks

wizard.

Click

File Server Management (Local)

In the

Actions

pane, click

Edit Server Configuration

to start the

creation wizard.

In the

Customize this system

section, click

Create a highly available file

server instance

After the

Highly available file server instance

wizard launches, enter the

name, IP address, and the Subnet mask for the IP address and then

click

. The process of creating a highly-available server instance begins

and a progress bar indicates the status of this process.

NOTE: When you create a Highly-Available Server Instance on a cluster node

using the PowerVault NX1950 Initial Configuration Tasks wizard, the status of the

Highly-Available Server Instance is not visible to the other nodes within the cluster.

This behavior is expected and is behaving as designed. To access the Highly-

Available Server Instance, each node in the cluster must have ownership of

the instance.

After this process is complete, all nodes have access to the cluster

resource group.

NOTE: To set up Snapshots for iSCSI Targets, see the Dell PowerVault NX1950

Systems End-to-End Deployment Guide for iSCSI on the Dell Support website at

support.dell.com.