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Installing and Configuring the Nomadic Disk
Manager

ServerNet Nomadic Disk User’s Guide425485-001

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Nomadic Disk Manager Configuration Statements

ADD SEGMENT Statement

The ADD SEGMENT statement adds the definition of a segment to the configuration.

seg

specifies the name of a segment you want to add to the configuration file. You can
use any valid TACL variable name.

DATA

specifies that the segment has Nomadic Disk data and is not a SPARE segment.

SPARE

Do not use this parameter.

Considerations

Although spare segments are used with spare disk modules in NonStop Himalaya
K-series servers, spare disk modules are not currently supported for the ServerNet
Nomadic Disk subsystem; therefore, the SPARE parameter should not be used with
NonStop Himalaya S-series servers.

A segment represents a pair of 45xx disk modules:

°

One disk module is located at the primary node and contains the primary
volumes.

°

The other disk module is located at the backup node and contains the mirror
volumes.

A segment can have from one to eight mirrored volumes.

The attributes of the segment must have been previously specified by SET PATH
and SET VOL statements. The SET PATH and SET VOL statements modify a
segment template; the ADD SEGMENT statement uses the data in that segment
template. The ADD SEGMENT statement implicitly resets the segment template.

All data segments are normally switched between nodes as a group. This feature can
be overridden, but an override should be attempted only in an emergency.

ADD SEGMENT seg , { DATA | SPARE }