User Guide
Novell Cluster Services Overview and Installation
Novell Cluster Services Overview and Installation
103-000154-001
August 29, 2001
Novell Confidential
Manual 99a38 July 17, 2001
Setting Up Novell Cluster Services
If you created a new cluster, you now need to create and configure cluster
resources. You might also need to create shared disk partitions if they do not
already exist and, if necessary, configure all shared disk system pools and
volumes to work with Novell Cluster Services. You might also need to cluster
enable the shared disk system pools and volumes.
While ConsoleOne is the recommended tool for creating shared disk
partitions, NSS pools, and volumes, NetWare Remote Manager can also be
used. NetWare Remote Manager currently does not provide all the features for
managing network storage that are available in ConsoleOne.
Create Shared Disk Partitions
Before creating disk partitions on shared storage (storage area network or
SAN), Novell Cluster Services must be installed. You should carefully plan
how you want to configure your shared storage prior to installing Novell
Cluster Services.
Using ConsoleOne
Start ConsoleOne and authenticate to the eDirectory tree where the
Cluster object resides.
ConsoleOne runs faster on a client than a server. From a NetWare client,
go to the SYS:PUBLIC\MGMT\CONSOLEONE\1.2\BIN directory on a
server in the cluster and run CONSOLEONE.EXE.
We recommend running ConsoleOne from the server that is your primary
NetWare connection.
In the left pane, right-click the Cluster object or the Server object of a
server in the cluster and then click Properties.
On the Media tab, click Devices and then select the Device where you
want to create the shared partition. Ensure the Sharable for Clustering
check box is checked for the device.
If a device is marked as sharable, all partitions on that device will
automatically be sharable.
Device names are not changeable and might be labeled something like
0x2 or 0x1.