Chapter 5Creating Cluster Resources

Now that the Novell Cluster Services (NCS) software has been installed on your server, it is time to move on and create some clustered resources. In this chapter you’ll learn about the basics of cluster resource creation. Chapter 8, “Cluster-Enabled Applications,” provides in-depth information about clustering of some specific applications.

Creating Clustered Volumes

In many cases clustered resources do need clustered volumes. The reason for this is obvious: The clustered resource often needs to write data to a volume. If this is a local volume and the resource fails over to another server in the cluster because of a hardware failure, the resource wouldn’t be capable of contacting its data. ...

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