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InfoScale™ 9.0 Storage Foundation Cluster File System High Availability Configuration and Upgrade Guide - AIX
Last Published:
2025-04-18
Product(s):
InfoScale & Storage Foundation (9.0)
Platform: AIX
- Section I. Introduction to SFCFSHA
- Introducing Storage Foundation Cluster File System High Availability
- Section II. Configuration of SFCFSHA
- Preparing to configure
- Preparing to configure SFCFSHA clusters for data integrity
- About planning to configure I/O fencing
- Setting up the CP server
- Configuring the CP server manually
- Configuring SFCFSHA
- Configuring a secure cluster node by node
- Verifying and updating licenses on the system
- Configuring SFCFSHA clusters for data integrity
- Setting up disk-based I/O fencing using installer
- Setting up server-based I/O fencing using installer
- Performing an automated SFCFSHA configuration using response files
- Performing an automated I/O fencing configuration using response files
- Configuring CP server using response files
- Manually configuring SFCFSHA clusters for data integrity
- Setting up disk-based I/O fencing manually
- Setting up server-based I/O fencing manually
- Configuring server-based fencing on the SFCFSHA cluster manually
- Setting up non-SCSI-3 fencing in virtual environments manually
- Setting up majority-based I/O fencing manually
- Section III. Upgrade of SFCFSHA
- Planning to upgrade SFCFSHA
- Preparing to upgrade SFCFSHA
- Upgrading the operating system
- Performing a full upgrade of SFCFSHA using the installer
- Performing a rolling upgrade of SFCFSHA
- Performing a phased upgrade of SFCFSHA
- About phased upgrade
- Performing a phased upgrade using the product installer
- Performing an automated SFCFSHA upgrade using response files
- Upgrading Volume Replicator
- Performing post-upgrade tasks
- Planning to upgrade SFCFSHA
- Section IV. Post-configuration tasks
- Section V. Configuration of disaster recovery environments
- Section VI. Adding and removing nodes
- Adding a node to SFCFSHA clusters
- Adding the node to a cluster manually
- Setting up the node to run in secure mode
- Adding a node using response files
- Configuring server-based fencing on the new node
- Removing a node from SFCFSHA clusters
- Adding a node to SFCFSHA clusters
- Section VII. Configuration and Upgrade reference
- Appendix A. Support for AIX Live Update
- Appendix B. Installation scripts
- Appendix C. Configuration files
- Appendix D. Configuring the secure shell or the remote shell for communications
- Appendix E. High availability agent information
- Appendix F. Sample SFCFSHA cluster setup diagrams for CP server-based I/O fencing
- Appendix G. Changing NFS server major numbers for VxVM volumes
- Appendix H. Configuring LLT over UDP
- Using the UDP layer for LLT
- Manually configuring LLT over UDP using IPv4
- Using the UDP layer of IPv6 for LLT
- Manually configuring LLT over UDP using IPv6
Sample configuration file for adding a node to the cluster
You may use this sample file as reference information to understand the configuration changes that take place when you add a node to a cluster.
include "OracleASMTypes.cf" include "types.cf" include "CFSTypes.cf" include "CVMTypes.cf" include "Db2udbTypes.cf" include "OracleTypes.cf" include "SybaseTypes.cf" cluster sys1_230 ( ClusterAddress = "10.198.89.19" SecureClus = 1 DefaultGuestAccess = 1 UseFence = SCSI3 HacliUserLevel = COMMANDROOT ) system sys1 ( ) system sys2 ( ) group ClusterService ( SystemList = { sys1 = 0, sys2 = 1 } AutoStartList = { sys1, sys2 } OnlineRetryLimit = 3 OnlineRetryInterval = 120 ) Application wac ( StartProgram = "/opt/VRTSvcs/bin/wacstart -secure" StopProgram = "/opt/VRTSvcs/bin/wacstop" MonitorProcesses = { "/opt/VRTSvcs/bin/wac -secure" } RestartLimit = 3 ) IP gcoip ( Device = en0 Address = "10.198.89.19" NetMask = "255.255.248.0" ) NIC gconic ( Device = en0 NetworkHosts = { "10.198.88.1" } ) gcoip requires gconic wac requires gcoip // resource dependency tree // // group ClusterService // { // Application wac // { // IP gcoip // { // NIC gconic // } // } // } group cpi_share_dg_sys1_cpi_cvm_vol_29870_sg ( SystemList = { sys1 = 0, sys2 = 1 } AutoFailOver = 0 Parallel = 1 AutoStartList = { sys1, sys2 } ) CFSMount cfsmount1 ( Critical = 0 MountPoint = "/cpi_auto/cpi_mnt_29870" BlockDevice = "/dev/vx/dsk/cpi_share_dg_sys1/cpi_cvm_vol_ 29870" MountOpt @sys1 = rw MountOpt @sys2 = rw NodeList = { sys1, sys2 } ) CVMVolDg cvmvoldg1 ( Critical = 0 CVMDiskGroup = cpi_share_dg_sys1 CVMVolume = { cpi_cvm_vol_29870 } CVMActivation @sys1 = sw CVMActivation @sys2 = sw ) requires group cvm online local firm cfsmount1 requires cvmvoldg1 // resource dependency tree // // group cpi_share_dg_sys1_cpi_cvm_vol_29870_sg // { // CFSMount cfsmount1 // { // CVMVolDg cvmvoldg1 // } // } group cvm ( SystemList = { sys1 = 0, sys2 = 1 } AutoFailOver = 0 Parallel = 1 AutoStartList = { sys1, sys2 } ) CFSfsckd vxfsckd ( ActivationMode @sys1 = { cpi_share_dg_sys1 = sw } ActivationMode @sys2 = { cpi_share_dg_sys1 = sw } ) CVMCluster cvm_clus ( CVMClustName = sys1_230 CVMNodeId = { sys1 = 0, sys2 = 1 } CVMTransport = gab CVMTimeout = 200 ) CVMVxconfigd cvm_vxconfigd ( Critical = 0 CVMVxconfigdArgs = { syslog } ) cvm_clus requires cvm_vxconfigd vxfsckd requires cvm_clus // resource dependency tree // // group cvm // { // CFSfsckd vxfsckd // { // CVMCluster cvm_clus // { // CVMVxconfigd cvm_vxconfigd // } // } // } group vxfen ( SystemList = { sys1 = 0, sys2 = 1 } AutoFailOver = 0 Parallel = 1 ) CoordPoint coordpoint