Serviceguard NFS Toolkit A.11.11.06, A.11.23.05 and A.11.31.05 Administrator's Guide HP-UX 11i v1, v2, and v3

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1 Overview of Serviceguard NFS....................................................................................9
Limitations of Serviceguard NFS............................................................................................................9
Overview of Serviceguard NFS Toolkit A.11.31.05 with Serviceguard A.11.18 (or later) and Veritas
Cluster File System Support.................................................................................................................10
Overview of the Serviceguard NFS Modular Package.........................................................................10
Overview of the NFS File Lock Migration Feature...............................................................................11
Overview of NFSv4 File Lock Migration Feature.................................................................................11
Overview of Serviceguard NFS with Serviceguard A.11.17 Support...................................................12
Limitations.......................................................................................................................................13
Integrating Support for Cluster File Systems into Serviceguard NFS Toolkit.....................................13
Overview of Cluster File Systems in Serviceguard NFS Toolkit..........................................................13
Current SG-NFS over VxFS Support...............................................................................................13
CFS versus Non-CFS Implementation.............................................................................................13
Limitations and Issues with the current CFS implementation.............................................................15
Supported Configurations....................................................................................................................16
Simple Failover to an Idle NFS Server.............................................................................................16
Failover from One Active NFS Server to Another...........................................................................17
A Host Configured as Adoptive Node for Multiple Packages........................................................18
Cascading Failover with Three Adoptive Nodes............................................................................19
Server-to-Server Cross Mounting....................................................................................................20
How the Control and Monitor Scripts Work........................................................................................21
Starting the NFS Services.................................................................................................................21
Starting File Lock Migration............................................................................................................22
Halting the NFS Services.................................................................................................................22
Monitoring the NFS Services...........................................................................................................22
On the Client Side............................................................................................................................23
2 Installing and Configuring Serviceguard NFS Legacy Package.............................25
Installing Serviceguard NFS Legacy Package.......................................................................................25
Before Creating a Serviceguard NFS Legacy Package..........................................................................26
Configuring a Serviceguard NFS Legacy Package...............................................................................28
Copying the Template Files.............................................................................................................28
Editing the Control Script (nfs.cntl)................................................................................................28
Editing nfs.cntl for NFS Toolkit A.11.00.05, A.11.11.02 (or above) and A.11.23.01 (or
above).........................................................................................................................................29
Editing nfs.cntl for NFS Toolkit A.11.00.04 and A.11.11.01 (or lower)......................................30
Editing the NFS Control Script (hanfs.sh) ......................................................................................31
Editing the File Lock Migration Script (nfs.flm)..............................................................................33
Editing the NFS Monitor Script (nfs.mon)......................................................................................33
Editing the Package Configuration File (nfs.conf)..........................................................................34
Configuring Server-to-Server Cross-Mounts (Optional).................................................................35
Creating the Cluster Configuration File and Bringing Up the Cluster...........................................36
Configuring Serviceguard NFS Legacy Package over CFS Packages...................................................37
Serviceguard NFS Legacy over CFS Packages without File Locking..............................................38
Configuring a Serviceguard NFS export package.....................................................................38
Starting a Serviceguard NFS export package.............................................................................40
Configuring a Serviceguard NFS failover package....................................................................41
Starting a Serviceguard NFS failover package...........................................................................42
Serviceguard NFS Legacy Package over CFS packages with File Locking.....................................43
Configuring a Serviceguard NFS failover package....................................................................44
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