Tasks for deploying InfoScale Storage with Microsoft failover clustering
This chapter describes how to install and configure InfoScale Storage with Microsoft failover clustering in a new installation, using a two-node active/passive cluster configuration as an example. The example describes a generic database application in order to present general recommendations that apply to multiple applications.
For specific examples of an SFW-Microsoft failover cluster solution, refer to the Storage Foundation and High Availability Solutions Microsoft Clustering Solutions Guide for Microsoft SQL.
The following table outlines the high-level objectives for implementing the configuration and the tasks for each objective:
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Table: Task list for deploying InfoScale Storage with Microsoft failover clustering
| Objectives | Tasks |
|---|---|
| See Reviewing the configuration . | Understanding the configuration for the failover cluster |
| See Configuring the storage hardware and network . | - Install the operating system on both nodes. |
| - Make necessary networking settings on both nodes. | |
| See Establishing a Microsoft failover cluster . | Refer to Microsoft documentation for instructions on establishing a cluster under Microsoft failover clustering. |
| See Tasks for installing InfoScale Foundation or InfoScale Storage for Microsoft failover clustering . | - Install InfoScale Storage. |
| - Install InfoScale Storage Option for Microsoft Cluster Service (MSCS). | |
| See Creating SFW disk groups and volumes . | - In SFW on Node A, create at least two dynamic cluster disk groups on the storage - one or more for the application data files and one for the mirrored quorum. |
| - The disk group for the quorum can be created later, if desired. | |
| See Creating a group for the application in the failover cluster . | - Create a group within the failover cluster for the application. |
| - Include the cluster disk group or groups for the application as Volume Manager Disk Group type resources in the group. | |
| See Installing the application on cluster nodes . | - Install the application program files on the local drive of the first node. |
| - Install files relating to the data and logs on the shared storage. | |
| - Move the cluster resources to the second node. | |
| - Make sure that the volumes on the second node have the same drive letters or mount points that they had on the first node. | |
| - Install the application on the second node. | |
| See Completing the setup of the application group in the failover cluster . | - Refer to the application documentation for help on creating its resource. |
| - Establish the appropriate dependencies. | |
| - Test the application group by moving the cluster resources to the other node. | |
| See Implementing a dynamic quorum resource . | - Create a dynamic disk group for the quorum with a mirrored volume if this task was not done earlier. |
| - Make that disk group a Volume Manager Disk Group type resource in the default Cluster Group. | |
| - Configure the quorum resource. | |
| See Verifying the cluster configuration . | - Move the cluster resources to the second node. Move them back to the first node. |
| - Optionally, simulate a failure by turning off the power to the server that has control of the cluster resources. |