Dell AX4-5 User Manual

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Preparing Your Systems for Clustering

1 In the Failover Cluster Management console, right-click on Failover

Cluster Management, click Manage a Cluster, and select or specify the
cluster you want to configure.

2 Click Services and Applications and click Configure a Service or

Application under Actions.

3 Follow the instructions in the wizard to specify the service or application

that you want to configure for high availability. When prompted, enter the
following information:

A name for the clustered service or application. This name is
registered in DNS and associated with the IP address for this clustered
service or application.

Any IP address information that is not automatically supplied by your
DHCP settings.

The storage volume or volumes that the clustered service or
application should use.

Any specific information for the service or application that you are
configuring.

4 Click View Report if you want to see the report for the tasks performed.

Verifying Failover of a Clustered Service or Application

After you have configured a service or application for high availability using
the instructions above, you can verify the failover of the clustered service or
application:

1 In the Failover Cluster Management console, right-click on Failover

Cluster Management, click Manage a Cluster, and select or specify the
cluster you want to configure.

2 Under Services and Applications, click on the service or application for

which you want to test failover.

3 Under Actions, click Move this service or application to another node.
4 Check if the service or application comes online on the other node.

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