HP Serviceguard A.11.20- Managing Serviceguard Twentieth Edition, August 2011

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Configuring Name Resolution............................................................................................168

Safeguarding against Loss of Name Resolution Services...................................................169

Ensuring Consistency of Kernel Configuration .....................................................................170

Enabling the Network Time Protocol ..................................................................................171

Tuning Network and Kernel Parameters...............................................................................171

Creating Mirrors of Root Logical Volumes............................................................................172

Choosing Cluster Lock Disks..............................................................................................173

Backing Up Cluster Lock Disk Information ......................................................................173

Setting Up a Lock LUN......................................................................................................174

Creating a Disk Partition on an HP Integrity System..........................................................175

Defining the Lock LUN.................................................................................................176

Excluding Devices from Probing.........................................................................................176

Setting Up and Running the Quorum Server........................................................................177

Creating the Storage Infrastructure and file systems with LVM, VxVM and CVM........................177

Creating a Storage Infrastructure with LVM..........................................................................177

Using the Generic Resources Disk Monitor......................................................................178

Using the EMS Disk Monitor.........................................................................................178

Using Mirrored Individual Data Disks.............................................................................179

Creating Volume Groups.........................................................................................179

Creating Logical Volumes.............................................................................................180

Setting Logical Volume Timeouts...............................................................................180

Creating File Systems...................................................................................................180

Distributing Volume Groups to Other Nodes...................................................................181

Deactivating the Volume Group................................................................................181

Distributing the Volume Group..................................................................................181

Making Physical Volume Group Files Consistent..............................................................183

Creating Additional Volume Groups..............................................................................183

Creating a Storage Infrastructure with VxVM.......................................................................183

Converting Disks from LVM to VxVM..............................................................................183

Initializing Disks for VxVM...........................................................................................184

Initializing Disks Previously Used by LVM........................................................................184

Creating Disk Groups..................................................................................................184

Creating Logical Volumes.............................................................................................184

Creating File Systems...................................................................................................185

Deporting Disk Groups................................................................................................185

Re-Importing Disk Groups.............................................................................................185

Clearimport at System Reboot Time................................................................................186

Configuring the Cluster .........................................................................................................186

cmquerycl Options...........................................................................................................187

Speeding up the Process..............................................................................................187

Specifying the Address Family for the Cluster Hostnames..................................................187

Specifying the Address Family for the Heartbeat .............................................................187

Specifying the Cluster Lock...........................................................................................188

Generating a Network Template File..............................................................................188

Full Network Probing...................................................................................................188

Specifying a Lock Disk......................................................................................................188

Specifying a Lock LUN......................................................................................................189

Specifying a Quorum Server.............................................................................................190

Obtaining Cross-Subnet Information...................................................................................190

Identifying Heartbeat Subnets............................................................................................192

Specifying Maximum Number of Configured Packages ........................................................192

Modifying the MEMBER_TIMEOUT Parameter......................................................................192

Controlling Access to the Cluster........................................................................................192

A Note about Terminology...........................................................................................193

How Access Roles Work..............................................................................................193

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