Veritas Storage Foundation 5.1 SP1 Cluster File System Installation Guide (5900-1510, April 2011)

Adding a node to a cluster

This chapter includes the following topics:

■ About adding a node to a cluster

■ Before adding a node to a cluster

■ Preparing to add a node to a cluster

■ Adding a node to a cluster

■ Configuring server-based fencing on the new node

■ Updating the Storage Foundation for Databases (SFDB) repository after adding

a node

About adding a node to a cluster

After you install SFCFS and create a cluster, you can add and remove nodes from

the cluster.You can create clusters of up to 64 nodes.

You can add a node:

■ Using the product installer

■ Using the Web installer

■ Manually

The example procedures describe how to add a node to an existing cluster with

two nodes.

Before adding a node to a cluster

Before preparing to add the node to an existing SFCFS cluster, verify the following:

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