HP StoreEasy 3000 Gateway Storage - Manual (Page 100)

CAUTION:
Presenting other LUNs to the non-clustered system could lead to data corruption.
Geographically dispersed clusters
Cluster nodes can be geographically dispersed to provide an additional layer of fault tolerance.
Geographically dispersed clusters are also referred to as stretched clusters.
The following rules must be followed with geographically dispersed clusters:
• A network connection with latency of 500 milliseconds or less ensures that cluster consistency can
be maintained. If the network latency is over 500 milliseconds, the cluster consistency cannot be
easily maintained.
• All nodes must be on the same subnet.
Cluster groups and resources, including file shares
The Failover Cluster Management tool provides complete online help for all cluster administration
activities.
Cluster resources include administrative types of resources as well as file shares. The following
paragraphs include overview and planning issues for cluster groups, cluster resources, and clustered
file shares.
Creating and managing these resources and groups must be managed through Failover Cluster
Management.
Cluster group overview
A default cluster group is automatically created when the cluster is first created. This default cluster
group contains an Internet Protocol (IP) Address resource, a Network Name resource, and the Quorum
disk resource. When the new cluster is created, the (IP) address and the cluster name that were
specified during setup are set up as the IP address and network name of this default cluster group.
CAUTION:
Do not delete or rename the Cluster Group or IP Address. Doing so results in losing the cluster and
requires reinstallation of the cluster.
When creating groups, the administrator's first priority is to gain an understanding of how to manage
the groups and their resources. Administrators may choose to create a resource group and a virtual
server for each node that will contain all resources owned by that node, or the administrator may
choose to create a resource group and virtual server for each physical disk resource. Additionally,
the administrator should try to balance the load of the groups and their resources on the cluster
between the nodes.
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