[Info-vax] Volume Shadowing & Cluster Satellite

Roy Omond roy at omond.net
Mon Apr 23 11:12:07 EDT 2012


On 23/04/2012 15:02, Christoph Gartmann wrote:
> In article<jn3m92$ef1$2 at pcls6.std.com>, moroney at world.std.spaamtrap.com (Michael Moroney) writes:
>> gartmann at nonsense.immunbio.mpg.de (Christoph Gartmann) writes:
>>> 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) ?
>
> Yes, I did, but only on the boot node. Should one do this at the clients as
> well?

Absolutely yes.  How else are the clients going to be able to mount
shadowsets ?

If you think about it, the answer is obvious ;-)




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