Managing Systems and Workgroups: A Guide for HP-UX System Administrators

Setting Up and Administering an HP-UX NFS Diskless Cluster
What To Do Next
Chapter 10926
What To Do Next
You have now created (or expanded) your cluster and booted its clients.
Tasks you might need to do now include:
• Add local disk drives to clients.
Local disk drives (drives attached to a client rather than to the
server) can have any of the following uses:
— Local swap.
This means that the client swaps to its own local disk, rather
than to the server’s disk space.
— Shared or private file space.
A disk attached to a client may contain a file system. This local
file system may be private to the client or available as a
cluster-wide resource. If it contains a functional operating
system, that system and its associated files are not used when
the system is a cluster client.
You can use SAM to add a local disk, to configure local and shared
swap, and to mount a local file system. See “Adding a Local Disk” on
page 926 for more information about adding a disk drive to a cluster
client.
• Add other local peripherals, such as printers and tape drives.
• Add users and groups.
• Back up the system.
Adding a Local Disk
There are several reasons why you would want to add a disk to a client:
• The client will probably perform better if it swaps locally, rather than
over the network.
• A cluster client cannot dump core during a panic; an attached disk
can be designated as the dump device.
• The client may require its own file system space.