HP XP Cluster Extension Software Administrator Guide

TIP: To change the properties in “Service or application properties and values” (page 21) with
the CLI, use the following command: cluster group groupname /prop
propertyname="propertyvalue".
Powershell cmdlets can also be used instead of cluster.exe. For more information, see Microsoft
documentation.
Table 2 Service or application properties and values
ValueDescriptionFormatProperty
GUI: Prevent
failback
Prevents automatic fail back of a service or application
to its primary system. Transfer the service or
IntegerGUI: Failback (Prevent
failback or Allow failback)
CLI: 0
application back manually after the failure has been
recovered. This allows for recovery of all possible
CLI: AutoFailbackType
(required)
failure sources and pair resynchronization (if
necessary) while the application service is still running.
6 (Default)Determines the time (in hours) over which the cluster
service attempts to fail over a service or application.
StringGUI: Period
CLI: FailoverPeriod
See “Timing considerations for MSFC” (page 36) for
more information.
Windows Server
2008/2008
Determines the number of failover attempts. The default
value allows the cluster service to transfer the service
IntegerGUI: Maximum failures in
the specified period
R2/2012: Numberor application to each system once in case of(Windows Server
2008/2008 R2/2012) of nodes in the
cluster minus 1.
subsequent system failure. Due to the nature of this
parameter, it is possible that the service or application
CLI: FailoverThreshold
automatically restarts on a system several times if all
cluster systems are not members of the cluster at that
time.
If this value is set to a number higher than the current
number of clustered systems for the cluster group, the
service or application will continue to restart until
either the FailoverThreshold value or the FailoverPeriod
timeout value is reached.
Setting XP Cluster Extension-specific resource properties
Changes to resource properties take effect when the resource is brought online again. For instructions
on changing resource properties, see the following:
• GUI: “Setting XP Cluster Extension resource properties using the GUI (Windows Server
2008/2008 R2/2012, Server Core, and Hyper-V Server)” (page 21)
• MMC: “Setting XP Cluster Extension resource properties using the MMC” (page 28)
• CLI: “Setting XP Cluster Extension resource properties using the CLI” (page 28)
• UCF: “Setting XP Cluster Extension properties using a UCF” (page 29)
Setting XP Cluster Extension resource properties using the GUI (Windows Server 2008/2008 R2/
2012, Server Core, and Hyper-V Server)
This section describes the procedures for setting XP Cluster Extension resource properties with a
GUI. You can perform these procedures through the resource configuration utility using the Failover
Cluster Management GUI or the standalone resource configuration tool. For instructions on using
the two GUI options, see the following:
• “Using Failover Cluster Management to set resource properties (Windows Server 2008/2008
R2/2012)” (page 22)
• “Using the resource configuration tool to set resource properties (Server Core and Hyper-V
Server)” (page 22)
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