Compaq ProLiant Cluster HA/F500 Administrator Guide

Setting Up the ProLiant Cluster HA/F500 with Switches
3-28 ProLiant Cluster HA/F500 for MA8000 Administrator Guide
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2. For each hard disk in the shared storage, Microsoft cluster software automatically
creates a cluster group that consists of a single resource, the disk drive. Using
Cluster Administrator, add an unused IP address as another resource to one of
these groups. (Do not use the Cluster Group.) Bring the newly created IP
resource online.
3. Open a Command Prompt window on a network client machine.
4. Be sure that the network client can access the IP address resource. Regardless of
whether you are using WINS or DHCP, you can execute the PING command to
check the connection.
From the network client, execute a PING command using the cluster IP address
as the argument. The client has successfully accessed the IP address resource if
you get a response similar to:
Reply from IP Address: bytes=xx time=xxxms TTL=xx.
The client has not successfully accessed the cluster resource if you get a
response of:
Reply from IP Address: Destination host unreachable
5. Following the successful completion of the PING command, use Cluster
Administrator to perform a manual failover of the cluster group that contains the
IP address resource.
6. After the manual failover completes, execute the PING command again.
As soon as the other node brings the cluster group online, a response similar to
the one noted in step 4 should be returned. If the client successfully accessed the
failed-over IP address resource, the cluster is working. If the client was
unsuccessful, either the cluster group was not configured correctly, the failover
did not occur, or the PING command was performed before the failover activity
completed.
7. If network client failover is not working correctly, refer to the installation
troubleshooting tips in Chapter 6.
8. If you want to verify a more extreme case, rather than fail over the IP address
resource, power off the primary cluster node and verify that the resource fails
over to the other node.