Tasks for deploying InfoScale Storage with Microsoft failover clustering in a campus cluster
This chapter presents a Microsoft failover clustering example with a two-node campus cluster.
The table below outlines the high-level objectives and the tasks for each objective:
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Table: Task list for deploying InfoScale Storage with Microsoft failover clustering in a campus cluster
| Objectives | Tasks |
|---|---|
| See Reviewing the configuration . | - Review the configuration requirements. |
| - Overview of a campus cluster using Microsoft clustering and recovery scenarios. | |
| See Configuring the storage hardware and network . | - Install and configure the hardware for each node in the cluster. |
| - Verify the DNS settings and binding order for all systems. | |
| See Establishing a Microsoft failover cluster . | - Enable the Microsoft failover clustering feature. |
| - Ensure that you have met the hardware requirements for a failover cluster. | |
| - Run the Microsoft wizard to validate the configuration. | |
| - Use Failover Cluster Management to create the first node of the cluster. | |
| - Create the second node of the cluster. | |
| - Connect the two nodes. | |
| See Tasks for installing InfoScale Foundation or InfoScale Storage for Microsoft failover clustering . | - Install InfoScale Storage on Node A (Node B active). |
| - Install InfoScale Storage on Node B (Node A active). | |
| See Creating disk groups and volumes . | In SFW on Node A, create two or more dynamic cluster disk groups on the storage, one or more for the application data files and one for the mirrored quorum. |
| See Implementing a dynamic quorum resource . | - If not done earlier, create a dynamic disk group for the quorum with a mirrored volume. |
| - Add the volume manager disk group for the quorum. | |
| - Change the quorum resource to the dynamic mirrored quorum resource. | |
| See Setting up a group for the application in the failover cluster . | - Create a group within failover clustering 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 the 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 as they had on the first node. | |
| - Install the application on the second node. | |
| See Completing the setup of the application group in the 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 Verifying the cluster configuration . | Verify the cluster configuration by either moving all the resource groups from one node to another or by simulating a failover by shutting down the active cluster node. |