[Info-vax] Volume Shadowing & Cluster Satellite

Paul Sture paul at sture.ch
Mon Apr 23 10:03:39 EDT 2012


On Mon, 23 Apr 2012 13:42:58 +0000, Michael Moroney wrote:

> gartmann at nonsense.immunbio.mpg.de (Christoph Gartmann) writes:
> 
>>Hello,
> 
>>today I tried to fiddle around with volume shadowing on OpenVMS 7.3-2.
>>So far everything worked as expteced. The boot node's device changed
>>from DKA0: to DSA0:. But the satellites were unable to boot from the
>>"new" cluster system disk. I changed all references in
>>SYSTARTUP_VMS.COM, SYLOGICALS.COM and in LANCP. Satellites did boot,
>>entered the cluster but immediately afterwards before the beginning of
>>STARTUP.COM they reported:
>>    boot device is already mounted as a shadow set member
> 
>>Thus, where else do I have to change the device name?
> 
> Did you change the shadowing sysgen parameters (such as SHADOWING,
> SHADOW_SYS_DISK and SHADOW_SYS_UNIT) ?

And ensure that ALLOCLASS is set to an appropriate non-zero value.

-- 
Paul Sture



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