VERITAS Volume Manager 3.1 Storage Administrator Administrator's Guide

Host and Cluster Tasks
Introduction
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Introduction
This chapter describes how to access and use host machines and clusters
with the Volume Manager Storage Administrator. The Host and Cluster
Task Roadmap at the beginning of this chapter contains a summary of
common host and cluster tasks.
The Storage Administrator can access and display multiple host
machines simultaneously. The Storage Administrator only provides
access to cluster-related features if the optional Volume Manager cluster
functionality is present.
The following host tasks are discussed in this chapter:
• “Connecting to a Host”
• “Disconnecting a Host”
• “Setting Up Automatic Host Connections”
The following cluster tasks are discussed in this chapter:
• “Working with Clusters”
• “Starting a Cluster”
• “Stopping a Cluster”
• “Starting a Node”
• “Stopping a Node”
• “Creating a Shared Disk Group”
• “Importing a Shared Disk Group”
• “Activating a Shared Disk Group”
• “Upgrading a Cluster”