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Once the Cluster/iX product is installed, perform the following
steps to configure the systems and to convert the required user
volume set to a cluster volume set:
Connect the primary and the secondary systems to a multiported
volume set but only configure the ldevs for the primary system,
leaving the configuration of the secondary system for later.
Verify that the MPE program SXOutil and the catalog
SXCAT000 are properly installed in the group PUB.SYS for the primary
and secondary systems, by using the LISTF command.
Using the cluster utility SXOutil, create (cmd:
SXOMAKELABEL) the Cluster ID block on the primary system. This
will convert your volume set into a cluster volume set. Please refer
to the help facility within SXOutil for more details about the
command.
VSCLOSE the newly created cluster volume set.
VSOPEN the cluster volume sets. Every cluster volume set can be
owned by only one system belonging to the cluster at any time. The
system that initiates creation of the cluster volume set will be the
initial owner of the disk and is allowed to perform disk operations
on these disks after mounting (VSOPENing).
Execute the DSTAT command to verify that the cluster volume
sets are created properly. DSTAT will display all cluster volume sets
as "MASTER-SX" & "MEMBER-SX".
Configure the ldevs on the secondary system by using SYSGEN of
IOCONFIG. As each of the drives is recognized, the operating system
they will mount automatically as "LONER." Neither VSOPEN nor VSCLOSE
should change the state from the secondary computer.
When the primary/host system experiences on outage, a switchover operation
must be initiated. The currently active/secondary system needs to
take ownership of all the cluster volume sets that the primary host/system
owned. This is termed as "taking control or switchover" of
a cluster volume set which is mounted as loner on
the secondary system.
This is accomplished by the SXOSETLABEL command within SXOutil
and followed by issuing the VSOPEN command.
The currently active/secondary system overrides the "Ownership
Label" on the disks owned by the primary/host system, and
assigns its "Ownership Label" on the disks owned
by the primary/host system. Only then can the active/secondary system
mount or VSOPEN the cluster volume set. On the completion of the
switchover operation, these volumes will be mounted as master and
member volumes, respectively, on the currently active/secondary system.
Once the secondary system has taken control of the cluster
volume sets, reboot the primary system and verify that
the cluster volume sets are automatically mounted as loner within
the primary/host system.
It is **IMPORTANT** to note that since the manual cluster is the only
option available currently, when a "Ownership Label" is being created or being
reset to the secondary active system, the other system should be
shutdown or must have done a VSCLOSE of the volume set.
Recreating a volume set and converting to a cluster volume
set should only be done when the primary system can "see" the
volumes. Failure to do so will cause the secondary to have stale
data on its system data structure, forcing a reboot to refresh the structures.
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