HP Integrity Superdome SX2000 Cluster Installation and Configuration Guide - W - Page 3

Table of Contents About This Document...7 Intended Audience...7 New and Changed Information in This Edition 7 Document Organization...7 Typographic Conventions...7 Related Information...8 Publishing History...8 HP Encourages Your Comments...8 1 Introduction...11 Clustering Overview...11 Cluster Terminology...12 Nodes...12 Cluster Service...12 Shared Disks...12 Resources...12 Resource Dependencies...13 Services and Applications...13 Quorums...13 Heartbeats...16 Virtual Servers...16 Failover...16 Failback...16 2 Installing and Configuring the Cluster 17 An Overview of the Installation and Configuration Process 17 Gathering Required Installation Information 19 Installing the Cluster...20 Additional Configuration Topics...28 NIC Teaming in Clustered Environments 28 Troubleshooting the Cluster...29 What to Do if Validation Tests Fail 29 Validation Issues for Multi-site or Geographically Dispersed Failover Clusters 29 Troubleshooting...29 Additional Clustering Tasks...30 Upgrading Individual Nodes in the Cluster 30 Evicting a Node from the Cluster...30 Destroying a Cluster...31 Table of Contents 3