you can make an appropriate determination of the ownership of the package (MC/SG, Veritas Cluster) or group (MSCS).

What is a package or group?

A package (MC/SG, Veritas Cluster) or a group (MSCS) is a collection of resources that are needed to run a specific cluster-aware application. Each cluster-aware application declares its own critical resources. The following resources must be defined in each group or package:

Shared disk volumes (MSCS, Novell NetWare Cluster Services)

Shared volume groups (MC/SG, Veritas Cluster)

Network IP names

Network IP addresses

Cluster-aware application services

What is a virtual server?

Disk volumes and volume groups represent shared physical disks. A network IP name and a network IP address are resources that define a virtual server of a cluster-aware application. Its IP name and address are cached by the cluster software and mapped to the cluster node where the specific package or group is currently running. Since the group or package can switch from one node to another, the virtual server can reside on different machines in different time frames.

What is a failover?

Each package or group has its own “preferred” node where it normally runs. Such a node is called a primary node. A package or group can be moved to another cluster node (one of the secondary nodes). The process of transferring a package or group from the primary cluster node to the secondary is called failover or switchover. The secondary node accepts the package or group in case of failure of the primary node. A failover can occur for many different reasons:

Software failures on the primary node

Hardware failures on the primary node

The administrator intentionally transfers the ownership because of maintenance on the primary node

In a cluster environment there can be more than one secondary node but only one can be the primary.

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