Device shared between two clustered dedicated storage node
Hi,
I have two dedicated storage nose and they are clustered, i want to do backup to disk so i created a disk and i define it on the cluster admin as physical disk shared and i tested it for failover.
Then, on Legato, on devices, i created 2 new (name: rd=server1:\\.\J as adv-file and rd=server2:\\.\J also as adv-file), now i could mount only one of them.
Question: What should i do in order to get the drive J: mounted on both node??
Thats what i did, but when i create new devices, what name should i give?
Do i have to create 2 devices, one for node1(rd=node1:\\.\J: and second for node 2 (rd=node2:\\.\J:), or i have to create only one and give it the name of the virtual node (rd=virtualname:\\.\J:)?
Ok, i created 2 drive, but the proble that i am facing it the following:
one device is mounted at a time and if node 1 goes down, the drive will be failover from cluster admin, but i have to manually mount the second device.
On Solaris, we did test this without any cluster software - you simply have one at the time mounted and it works that way... as soon as I one is in use another one gets "in use" status. I think what you are trying here with cluster controlled software is not how it is designed to work. Nevertheless, if you problem is only mounting (which I doubt) simply add script to mount it as action during failover.... AFAIR, DDS during failover is not really something NW handles very nice and I'm not sure if this has been improved in recent versions.
jyammine
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Posted April 4th, 2007 01:00
I am trying to backup to disk. Can the disk (device) be shared? If yes how can i do that?
Thank you