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

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14 Test Your Configuration
Test SAN Shared Filesystem Operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140
Test SAN Connectivity and Shared Filesystem Operation. . . . 141
Test Filesystem Failure Recovery. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141
Test Virtual Host Operation and Failover . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142
Test Failure and Reintegration of Servers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142
Test Failure and Reintegration of Service Monitors . . . . . . . . . 142
Test DNS Load-Balancing and Failover . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143
Validate Correct Load-Balancing Operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144
Validate Load-Balancing When a Server Is Down. . . . . . . . . . . 144
Test LAN Failover of Administrative Cluster Traffic . . . . . . . . . . . 145
15 Advanced Topics
The Effect of Monitors on Virtual Host Failover . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146
Service Monitors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146
Custom Device Monitors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149
Integrate Custom Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152
Device Monitor or Service Monitor? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152
Built-In Monitor or User-Defined Monitor?. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153
Example of Using Monitors with Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153
An Example of Start and Stop Scripts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154
Script Environment Variables. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154
Limit the Servers That Can Join a Cluster . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155
16 SAN Maintenance
Server Access to the SAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156
Membership Partitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157
Display the Status of SAN Ownership Locks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157
Manage Membership Partitions with mprepair . . . . . . . . . . . . 160
Change a Host Bus Adapter or Driver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166
Server Cannot Be Located. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167
Online Insertion of New Storage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167
Online Replacement of a FibreChannel Switch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168
Replace a Brocade FC Switch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168
Replace a McDATA FC Switch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170
17 Other Cluster Maintenance
Maintain the HP Clustered File System Event Log. . . . . . . . . . . . . 172
Windows Event Viewer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173