HP NetRAID-4M and RS/12 Cluster Install Guide for Windows 2000 Advanced Server Clusters

HP NetRAID-4M Cluster Services Installation Guide Cluster Software Components and Quorum

3.4 Configure the Cluster Shared Quorum

Using the NetRAID-4M FAST Utility

1. On Server A, from the Windows 2000 Start button start the NetRAID-4M FAST utility.

2. Verify that the Available Controllers window displays the local HP NetRAID-4M and click

Open.

3. Expand the Controller View window.

Create Disksets

NOTE A diskset cannot span disks across multiple controllers.

4. From the Disk (Physical Drv) menu, click on the Manage Disksets button.

5. To create a shared quorum drive of two mirrored hard disks, from the Non-Member Disks

listing, select two Disk IDs and then click the Create Diskset …>> button.

In the following example, the first drive in each of two RS/12s was selected:

0:00:0 and 2:00:0.

To create a shared quorum drive on a RAID-5 set, select 3 or more Disk ID’s from the

Non-Member Disks listing, then click the Create Diskset …>> button.

NOTE HP recommends creating a fault-tolerant RAID type, such as RAID-1 or RAID-5

for the shared quorum drive.