3.5.1 Matrix Server Installation Guide (June 2008)

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1. Membership Partitions. Matrix Server uses a set of membership
partitions to control access to the SAN and to store the device naming
database, which includes the global device names that Matrix Server
assigns to the SAN disks placed under its control.
You will need to select the LUNs or disk partitions that should be used
as membership partitions.
NOTE: LUNs must already be partitioned as described earlier under
“Create LUNs or Disk Partitions for Membership Partitions”
on page 10.
Matrix Server can use either one or three membership partitions. To
ensure that a membership partition is always available, we strongly
recommend that you select three partitions.