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Requirements

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Hardware Requirements

The hardware consists of multiported arrays, like the XP family or 12H, connected to multiple computers where each port has access to the drives on the other port.

Limitations

Clusteri/X does not migrate user entries, IP addresses nor user/group capabilites. The system implementor must script these features.

NOTE: The Heartbeat facility is no guarantee that the primary system is down. Care must be exercised in developing job scripts to cause a switchover to the secondary computer.

Cluster/iX will not be supported on System Volume Sets.

Only user volume sets are allowed to be cluster volume sets.

Cluster/iX is not supported with path failover for the first release.

Cluster/iX is not supported on Mirrored disks.

Cluster/iX is not supported on split volume sets.

Cluster/iX does not support data sharing.

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