HP File Archiving Software manual Installing FMA in a cluster configuration

Installing FMA in a cluster configuration

If you are installing FMA on a Microsoft cluster system, you must perform additional configuration steps.

FMA supports clusters based on Windows Server 2003 and 2008. Consult Microsoft documentation for help in determining the best cluster configuration for the application. The following quorum modes are supported by FMA and the installation instructions are the same for all cases:

•Server 2003

Standard Quorum—All nodes use a common disk to store the cluster information.

Majority Node Set (MNS)—All nodes store a copy of the cluster information and there is no shared disk quorum resource.

•Server 2008

Node Majority—This is similar to MNS for Server 2003.

Node and Disk Majority—This is used when there are an even number of nodes for a single site cluster and there is a single shared disk resource.

Node and File Share Majority—This is used when there are an even number of nodes and the shared disk resource is a file share that enables nodes from remote sites to access the quorum data.

No Majority—This is similar to Standard Quorum for Server 2003.

When you work with a cluster environment, consider the following:

•FMA must be installed on every node.

•All cluster nodes must be running and the cluster system must be fully operational before installing and configuring FMA. For a Server 2008 cluster, run the Validate a Configuration Wizard before installing FMA. All issues must be resolved before installation of FMA.

•When deploying FMA on an MNS multi-site cluster, ensure that the replication tool maintains exact duplicates of production disks at the recovery location.

If you want to migrate a Windows 2003 cluster that includes FMA to a Windows 2008 cluster, see Migrating a Windows 2003 cluster on page 18.

To configure FMA in a cluster environment

The Active/Active and Active/Passive configuration have different configuration steps in the cluster environment, refer to To create an Active/Active Cluster configuration on page 15 for more information.

The following steps are for the Active/Passive cluster configuration:

1.Install FMA on each cluster node, following the steps in Installing FMA on file servers on page 7.

Note In cluster environments, the FMA configuration service runs on one node only. This service is not started until all steps in this procedure are completed. The FMA migrator service should only run for seven minutes when the configuration service is not running. Therefore, if step 1 takes longer than seven minutes to complete for ALL nodes, HP recommends rebooting all nodes prior to completing step 2.

2.Launch the FMA cluster wizard on any cluster node to configure the FMA configuration service as a cluster resource in the default cluster group.

From the Start menu, select All Programs→HP StorageWorks File Migration Agent→FMA Cluster Setup.

3.On the Cluster Setup dialog box, click Next.

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