Serviceguard NFS Toolkit A.11.31.02 Release Notes (February 2007)

Serviceguard NFS Toolkit Overview
HP Serviceguard Network File Server (NFS) Toolkit uses HP Serviceguard to set up highly available NFS
servers.
You must set up a Serviceguard cluster before you can set up Highly Available (HA) NFS. Serviceguard NFS
Toolkit is a separately purchased set of configuration files and control scripts, which you can customize for
your specific needs.
An NFS server is a host that exports its local directories and makes them available for client hosts to mount
using NFS. On the NFS client, these mounted directories look to users like part of the client's local file system.
With HP Serviceguard NFS Toolkit, the NFS server package containing the exported file systems can move
to a different node in the cluster in the event of failure. After Serviceguard starts the NFS package on the
adoptive node, the NFS file systems are re-exported from the adoptive node with minimum disruption of
services to users. When the service returns, the user can continue access to the file. You do not need to restart
the client.
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