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Syncro CS 9271-8i Solution User Guide
October 2013

Chapter 3: Creating the Cluster

Creating the Cluster in Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)

The following window appears.

Figure 18 Create New Cluster Window

2.

Log in as root for the user, and enter the associated root password for the host server node.

3.

Go to the Manage Cluster tab.

4.

Click Create.

5.

Enter a name in the Cluster Name field.

NOTE

The Cluster Name field identifies the cluster and will be referenced in
proceeding steps.

6.

Add each server node in the Node Name field.

7.

In the password field, enter the ricci password for each server node participating in the cluster.

8.

Select the check box for the Enable Share Storage Support option.

9.

Click Create Cluster to complete.

3.4.3

Configure the Logical Volumes and Apply GFS2 File System

Perform the following steps to create a virtual drive volume that can be managed by the Linux kernel Logical
Volume Manager. All of the commands in the following procedure are entered in the command line prompt.

1.

Create a virtual drive with Shared access policy based on the steps defined in

Section 3.1, Creating Virtual Drives

on the Controller Nodes

.

2.

Create a physical volume label for use with LVM by entering the following command:

pvcreate /dev/sdb

3.

Create a volume group (vol_grp0) and map /dev/sdb to the volume group by entering the following command:

create vol_grp0 /dev/sdb