HP StorageWorks Clustered File System 3.2.1 Windows Storage Server Edition Administration Guide (February 2006)

Chapter 4: Configure Servers 33
Migrate Existing Servers to HP Clustered
File System
In HP Clustered File System, the names of your servers should be
different from the names of the virtual hosts they support. A virtual host
can then respond regardless of the state of any one of the servers.
In some cases, the name of an existing server may have been published as
a network host before HP Clustered File System was configured. You can
either reassign the public name of the server to the virtual host, which is
generally the better solution, or keep the published name associated with
the server.
• Migrate the existing server name to a virtual hostname. In this case,
you will need to assign a new name to the server. External sites that
then access the original server name will actually be served by the
virtual host—basically, a failover-protected version of the server, with
no difference in appearance to the clients.