Table of Contents
About This Document.........................................................................................................7
Intended Audience.................................................................................................................................7
New and Changed Information in This Edition.....................................................................................7
Document Organization.........................................................................................................................7
Typographic Conventions......................................................................................................................7
Related Information................................................................................................................................8
Publishing History..................................................................................................................................8
HP Encourages Your Comments............................................................................................................8
1 Introduction...................................................................................................................11
Clustering Overview.............................................................................................................................11
Cluster Terminology.............................................................................................................................12
Nodes...............................................................................................................................................12
Cluster Service.................................................................................................................................12
Shared Disks....................................................................................................................................12
Resources.........................................................................................................................................12
Resource Dependencies...................................................................................................................13
Services and Applications...............................................................................................................13
Quorums..........................................................................................................................................13
Heartbeats........................................................................................................................................16
Virtual Servers.................................................................................................................................16
Failover............................................................................................................................................16
Failback............................................................................................................................................16
2 Installing and Configuring the Cluster.......................................................................17
An Overview of the Installation and Configuration Process...............................................................17
Gathering Required Installation Information.......................................................................................19
Installing the Cluster.............................................................................................................................20
Additional Configuration Topics..........................................................................................................28
NIC Teaming in Clustered Environments.......................................................................................28
Troubleshooting the Cluster.................................................................................................................29
What to Do if Validation Tests Fail..................................................................................................29
Validation Issues for Multi-site or Geographically Dispersed Failover Clusters............................29
Troubleshooting...............................................................................................................................29
Additional Clustering Tasks.................................................................................................................30
Upgrading Individual Nodes in the Cluster...................................................................................30
Evicting a Node from the Cluster....................................................................................................30
Destroying a Cluster........................................................................................................................31
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