3.6.1 HP PolyServe Software for Windows File Serving Administration Guide (T5392-96019, July 2008)

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Configure Matrix File Shares
Configuration Overview
MatrixFileSharesareWindowsCIFSsharesassociatedwithaHP
PolyServeSoftwarefilesystemhealthmonitor.ClientsconnecttoMatrix
FileSharesusingthenetworknameorIPaddressofanyphysicalserver
inthecluster.EachnodeintheclusterprovidesaccesstothesamePSFS
filesystemsthroughitsMatrix
FileShares.
Forhighavailability,MatrixFileSharescanbedeployedwitha
connection‐orientedloadbalancersuchastheMicrosoftDistributedFile
System(DFS).Clientconnectionrequeststoasinglenetwork name
(providedbyDFS)areevenlydistribu tedamongthenodesinthecluster.
Onfailureofanode,DFS
detectsthelossofnetworkconnectivityand
routesnewconnectionandre‐connectionrequeststotheremainingnodes
inthecluster.
TheMatrixFileSharemonitorcandetectasituationinwhichanodein
theclusterlosesaccesstothePSFSfilesystem(forexample,becauseofa
SANproblem)
butisotherwisehealthy.Themonitorthentearsdownthe 
associatedCIFSsharetopreventfutureconnectionandre‐connection
requestsfrombeingdirectedtoanodethathaslostaccesstothe
underlyingsharedfilesystem .
Whenthenoderegainsaccesstothesharedfilesystem,theMatrixFile
Sharemonitorautomatically
recreatestheCIFSshareandthenodethen
startshandlingrequests.
Therearetwostepstotheconfigurationprocess:firstcreateMatrixFile
SharesandthenconfigureDFS(oranotherloadbalancer).