[Info-vax] Alpha doesn't want to work in a cluster

[victor.esin at gmail.com]

пятница, 26 октября 2012 г., 16:47:57 UTC+4 пользователь Stephen Hoffman написал:
> On 2012-10-26 12:14:22 +0000, victor.esin at gmail.com said:
> > I'd like to create a cluster from ES40 (VMS 7.3-2) and Integrity Rx2800 
> > (VMS 8.4). Yes, I know this combination is unsupported, but it's not a 
> > production cluster anyway. Quorum disk is the fibre disk. Integrity 
> > works as expected, but Alpha does not. So finally to make life simpler 
> > I shut Integrity down, deleted QUORUM.DAT (created by Intergity) from 
> > the quorum disk and continued with the Alpha alone in the cluster with 
> > the quorum disk. But it's still no success. Alpha is booting, reporting
> > CNXMAN - using remote access method to the quorum disk
> > ....
> > CNXMAN - proposing formation of VMScluster
> > CNXMAN - now is VMScluster member, node Alpha
> > CNXMAN - completing VMScluster state transition
> >   and nothing more happenning.
> You'll likely want to upgrade the AlphaServer ES40 to V8.4; that isn't 
> a big upgrade on OpenVMS Alpha.

  Unfortunately it's no chance to do it. And, to be honest, no point to do so as the purpose of the whole thing is to support porting from AXP 7.3-2 to I8.4

> In your posting, you seem focused on the proverbial third-wheel of a 
> cluster configuration, the quorum disk.  That's not necessary when 
> forming a new cluster.  Simplify; reduce your VOTES to 1 and 0, and set 
> your EXPECTED_VOTES to 1, and remove the quorum disk specification and 
> votes.  Get the two-node configuration working.  (The quorum disk 
> polling should prevent you from clobbering things if your network 
> connection among the member hosts is offline, but still...)

  I removed DISK_QUORUM and QDSKVOTES from Alpha and it booted successfully. Integrity entered later with quorum disk. So now two nodes and quorum disk are in the cluster, but Alpha doesn't know about quorum disk.  So network was proven to work normally. The configuration is working but looks somewhat ..inaccurate. Yes, I can live with it and can connect Alpha and Interity directly with crossover ethernet cable to leave network folks out of game. But I still have no idea why Alpha doesn't want to work with fibre quorum disk.
 
> I'm assuming you haven't had this configuration clustered before.  

  Yes, it's my first cluster and there is a lot of fun here for me.
Thank you very much, Hoff, for your comments. Yes, I searched your site forth and back before asking here :)