4.0.0 HP PolyServe Software for Microsoft SQL Server Administration Guide (T5392-96056, March 2010)

Virtual IP: Specify the IP address that will be associated with this Virtual SSAS.
Name: Enter the NetBIOS name for this Virtual SSAS. The name can include up to 15 characters.
Application name: An “application” provides a tag to group Virtual SSASs and related virtual SSAS
instances on the Applications tab. All of the resources associated with the application can then be
treated as a unit on the Applications tab. You can specify a new application name (maximum of 32
characters), select an existing application name, or leave this field blank. However, if you do not
assign a name, Matrix Server will use the IP address for the Virtual SSAS as the application name.
Policy: The policy determines the failback action that the Virtual SSAS will take following a failover
to a backup node.
• AUTOFAILBACK. This policy is intended to return the Virtual SSAS to its original configuration, or
as close to it as possible. After the Virtual SSAS fails over to a backup node, the ClusterPulse
process watches the health of the nodes higher in the list of servers for that Virtual SSAS. When
the health of one of these nodes is equal to or greater than the backup node where the Virtual
SSAS currently resides, the Virtual SSAS will automatically attempt to fail back to that node.
• NOFAILBACK. This policy is intended to minimize failovers and is the default. The Virtual SSAS
remains active on the backup node until a “healthier” node becomes available, at which point
the Virtual SSAS fails over to that node. (On a “healthier” node, more of the services associated
with the Virtual SSAS will be up than on the node currently hosting the Virtual SSAS. “Up” includes
the probe statuses UP and Standby.)
Network Interfaces Available/Members: Move the interfaces on which the Virtual SSAS should be
configured from the Available column to the Members column. The first interface that you select is the
primary interface. The other interfaces that you select are backups. You can use the up and down
arrows to reorder the interfaces on the Members column.
When you click OK, a progress report will display the tasks required to create the Virtual SSAS. Click
Run to start the operation.The new Virtual SSAS appears on the Servers, Virtual Hosts, and Applications
tabs of the PolyServe Management Console.
The following example shows a Virtual SSAS configured on two nodes of the matrix.
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