Serviceguard NFS Toolkit A.11.11.06, A.11.23.05 and A.11.31.03 Administrator's Guide

Table of Contents
1 Overview of Serviceguard NFS....................................................................................7
Limitations of Serviceguard NFS............................................................................................................7
Overview of Serviceguard NFS Toolkit A.11.31.03 with Serviceguard A.11.18 and Veritas Cluster
File System Support................................................................................................................................8
Limitations.........................................................................................................................................8
Overview of the NFS File Lock Migration Feature................................................................................8
Overview of NFSv4 File Lock Migration Feature...................................................................................9
Overview of Serviceguard NFS with Serviceguard A.11.17 Support...................................................10
Limitations.......................................................................................................................................11
Integrating Support for Cluster File Systems into Serviceguard NFS Toolkit.....................................11
Overview of Cluster File Systems in Serviceguard NFS Toolkit..........................................................11
Current SG-NFS over VxFS Support...............................................................................................11
CFS versus Non-CFS Implementation.............................................................................................11
Limitations and Issues with the current CFS implementation.............................................................13
Supported Configurations....................................................................................................................14
Simple Failover to an Idle NFS Server.............................................................................................14
Failover from One Active NFS Server to Another...........................................................................15
A Host Configured as Adoptive Node for Multiple Packages........................................................16
Cascading Failover with Three Adoptive Nodes............................................................................17
Server-to-Server Cross Mounting....................................................................................................18
How the Control and Monitor Scripts Work........................................................................................19
Starting the NFS Services.................................................................................................................19
Starting File Lock Migration............................................................................................................20
Halting the NFS Services.................................................................................................................20
Monitoring the NFS Services...........................................................................................................20
On the Client Side............................................................................................................................21
2 Installing and Configuring Serviceguard NFS..........................................................23
Installing Serviceguard NFS.................................................................................................................23
Monitoring NFS/TCP Services with Serviceguard NFS Toolkit...........................................................24
Before Creating a Serviceguard NFS Package......................................................................................24
Configuring a Serviceguard NFS Package............................................................................................26
Copying the Template Files.............................................................................................................26
Editing the Control Script (nfs.cntl)................................................................................................27
Editing nfs.cntl for NFS Toolkit A.11.00.05, A.11.11.02 (or above) and A.11.23.01 (or
above).........................................................................................................................................27
Editing nfs.cntl for NFS Toolkit A.11.00.04 and A.11.11.01 (or lower)......................................28
Editing the NFS Control Script (hanfs.sh) ......................................................................................30
Editing the File Lock Migration Script (nfs.flm)..............................................................................31
Editing the NFS Monitor Script (nfs.mon)......................................................................................32
Editing the Package Configuration File (nfs.conf)..........................................................................33
Configuring Server-to-Server Cross-Mounts (Optional).................................................................33
Creating the Cluster Configuration File and Bringing Up the Cluster...........................................35
Configuring Serviceguard NFS over CFS Packages.............................................................................36
Serviceguard NFS over CFS Packages without File Locking..........................................................37
Configuring a Serviceguard NFS export package.....................................................................37
Starting a Serviceguard NFS export package.............................................................................39
Configuring a Serviceguard NFS failover package....................................................................40
Starting a Serviceguard NFS failover package...........................................................................41
Serviceguard NFS over CFS packages with File Locking...............................................................42
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