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

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Chapter4:ConfigureVirtualCIFSServers 20

VFS1,VFS2,andVFS3.TheVirtualFileShareisconfiguredidenticallyon

eachVirtualCIFSServer.

Node1isprimaryforVirtualCIFSServerVFS1,node2isprimaryfor

VFS2,andnode3isprimaryforVFS3.Eachnodeisabackupfortheother

VirtualCIFSServers.CIFSclients

connecttotheloadbalancer(suchas

round‐robinDNSorahardwareload balancer)andtheclientsarethen

routedtooneofthenodes.Ifanodegoesdown,itsclientswillbefailed

overtoabackupnodeandaccesswillcontinue.

CIFS clients accessing Virtual File Share

Ethernet

FC Fabric

For each Virtual CIFS Server,

Virtual File Share

points to

the x:\s1 PSFS filesystem

Disk Array

All servers are providing Virtual File Share

via Virtual CIFS Servers VFS1,

VFS2, and VFS3. DNS round robin or a hardware load balancer is configured

to route the CIFS clients to a Virtual CIFS Server on first connect or on a

reconnect after a failure.

DNS round robin or

hardware load balancer

Primary:

VFS2 with

Virtual File

Backup:

VFS1, VFS3

Primary:

VFS3 with

Virtual File

Backup:

VFS1, VFS2

Primary:

VFS1 with

Virtual File

Backup:

VFS2, VFS3

Matrix Server