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Starting and stopping clustering services, Starting and stopping clustering services 64 – HP StorageWorks 8000 NAS User Manual

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64 Configuring Your System and Network

Node Timeout: Timeout value for a heartbeat between nodes. If a

heartbeat is not detected for this specified amount of time, the node

awaiting/monitoring the heartbeat will determine that the node is

unavailable and will commence cluster reformation and package

failover.

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Click OK.

Starting and Stopping Clustering Services

Note

This section applies only if you have purchased a high-

availability NAS solution.

Once a cluster configuration exists, you can manually start clustering services.

The cluster will not start automatically. You can start the clustering services

with or without packages defined. The clustering services will automatically

start any packages that you configured with Auto Start enabled. See “Adding

a New Package” on page 86 for more information on configuring packages.
When you stop the clustering services, all packages stop gracefully and the

cluster stops. Stopping clustering services does not cause the systems to shut

down or reboot. Upon completion of a clustering services stop command, the

systems will be up but no packages will be running; therefore, all volume

groups will be inactive and no storage will be accessible to client systems.
You can configure the clustering services to automatically start when the

system boots. By default, the clustering services auto-start feature is disabled

and you must start clustering services manually. If you enable clustering

services auto-start, clustering services will start automatically when the system

boots. When you modify the clustering services auto-start setting, the setting

will be mirrored on the other cluster nodes. See “Entering Node Settings” on

page 61 if you want to change the auto-start feature.
The Start/Stop Clustering Services screen allows you to turn clustering

capabilities on or off. You must stop clustering services to change

configuration information on your NAS server. Once you stop clustering

services, you will be able to access your data through the physical IP address

but not the virtual IP address.

Caution

All current connections to CIFS and NFS will be lost when you

stop clustering services.