Dell AX4-5 - Manual (Page 5)

Contents
5
3 Installing Your Cluster Management
Software
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
37
Microsoft Failover Cluster Management Console . . . 37
Running Failover Cluster Management on
a Remote Console
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Launching Failover Cluster Management
Console on a Remote Console
. . . . . . . . . . . 38
4 Understanding Your Failover Cluster . . . 39
Cluster Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Cluster Networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Preventing Network Failure . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Network Interfaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Cluster Nodes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Forming a New Cluster . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Joining an Existing Cluster . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Cluster Resources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Setting Resource Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Resource Dependencies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Creating a Resource . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Resource Failure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Replacing a Failed Disk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Configuring Active and Passive Cluster Nodes . . . . . 45
Failover Policies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Windows Server 2008 Cluster Configurations . . . 46
Failover and Failback Capabilities . . . . . . . . . 52