Compaq ProLiant Cluster HA/F500 Administrator Guide

Setting Up the ProLiant Cluster HA/F500 with Hubs
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Verifying Network Client Failover
Now that you have verified that the server is correctly running as a cluster node, the
next step is to verify that network clients can interact with the cluster.
To verify network client failover:
1. Be sure that both cluster nodes are running and verify through Cluster
Administrator that all groups and resources are online.
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.