Managing Serviceguard Nineteenth Edition, Reprinted June 2011

Creating the Storage Infrastructure and file systems with LVM, VxVM and CVM........................168
Creating a Storage Infrastructure with LVM..........................................................................168
Using the EMS Disk Monitor.........................................................................................169
Using Mirrored Individual Data Disks.............................................................................169
Creating Volume Groups.........................................................................................169
Creating Logical Volumes.............................................................................................171
Setting Logical Volume Timeouts...............................................................................171
Creating File Systems...................................................................................................171
Distributing Volume Groups to Other Nodes...................................................................172
Deactivating the Volume Group................................................................................172
Distributing the Volume Group..................................................................................172
Making Physical Volume Group Files Consistent..............................................................173
Creating Additional Volume Groups..............................................................................174
Creating a Storage Infrastructure with VxVM.......................................................................174
Converting Disks from LVM to VxVM..............................................................................174
Initializing Disks for VxVM...........................................................................................174
Initializing Disks Previously Used by LVM........................................................................174
Creating Disk Groups..................................................................................................175
Creating Logical Volumes.............................................................................................175
Creating File Systems...................................................................................................175
Deporting Disk Groups................................................................................................176
Re-Importing Disk Groups.............................................................................................176
Clearimport at System Reboot Time................................................................................176
Configuring the Cluster .........................................................................................................177
cmquerycl Options...........................................................................................................177
Speeding up the Process..............................................................................................177
Specifying the Address Family for the Cluster Hostnames..................................................178
Specifying the Address Family for the Heartbeat .............................................................178
Specifying the Cluster Lock...........................................................................................178
Generating a Network Template File..............................................................................179
Full Network Probing...................................................................................................179
Specifying a Lock Disk......................................................................................................179
Specifying a Lock LUN......................................................................................................180
Specifying a Quorum Server.............................................................................................180
Obtaining Cross-Subnet Information...................................................................................181
Identifying Heartbeat Subnets............................................................................................183
Specifying Maximum Number of Configured Packages ........................................................183
Modifying the MEMBER_TIMEOUT Parameter......................................................................183
Controlling Access to the Cluster........................................................................................183
A Note about Terminology...........................................................................................184
How Access Roles Work..............................................................................................184
Levels of Access..........................................................................................................185
Setting up Access-Control Policies..................................................................................185
Role Conflicts.........................................................................................................187
Package versus Cluster Roles.........................................................................................188
Adding Volume Groups....................................................................................................188
Verifying the Cluster Configuration ....................................................................................188
Distributing the Binary Configuration File ...........................................................................189
Storing Volume Group and Cluster Lock Configuration Data .............................................190
Creating a Storage Infrastructure with Veritas Cluster File System (CFS)....................................190
Modular CFS packages v/s Legacy CFS packages..........................................................190
Preparing the Cluster and the System Multi-node Package.................................................193
Creating the Disk Groups.............................................................................................194
Creating the Disk Group Cluster Packages......................................................................194
Creating Volumes........................................................................................................195
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