[Veritas-ha] VCS with Blades
Hi, Does anyone have experience using VCS with IBM Blades? Especially with Blade LS21? We are just planning to use this hardware and the first problem is the lack of resource for heartbeat link. The Blade has only 2 network ports and both are used for the public network so no interface remains for the heartbeat private network. Is there any other choice for the heartbeat link than private network? Thanks. Best Regards, Laszlo No need to miss a message. Get email on-the-go with Yahoo! Mail for Mobile. Get started. http://mobile.yahoo.com/mail ___ Veritas-ha maillist - Veritas-ha@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-ha
Re: [Veritas-ha] VCS with Blades
VCS does not *require* private links. We recommend but do not require. We do require 2 links. You will need to make omne NIC high pri and one low. [Sent from my Nokia E62 handheld via goodlink] -Original Message- From: Kiss László - Károly [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 02, 2007 07:38 AM Pacific Standard Time To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:[Veritas-ha] VCS with Blades Hi, Does anyone have experience using VCS with IBM Blades? Especially with Blade LS21? We are just planning to use this hardware and the first problem is the lack of resource for heartbeat link. The Blade has only 2 network ports and both are used for the public network so no interface remains for the heartbeat private network. Is there any other choice for the heartbeat link than private network? Thanks. Best Regards, Laszlo No need to miss a message. Get email on-the-go with Yahoo! Mail for Mobile. Get started. http://mobile.yahoo.com/mail ___ Veritas-ha maillist - Veritas-ha@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-ha
Re: [Veritas-ha] VCS with Blades
Newer versions of VCS are kinder and better than 1.3. Node number can be duplicate, but cluster IDs need to be unique if they will be out on the same network (remember LLT doesn't get routed, so it isn't going everywhere). With current VCS, if LLT sports a duplicate, it will announce that it sees the duplicate and disable LLT on that port. In addition to changing the cluster IDs, you can also change SAP (default=CAFÉ) as some companies do with multiple operating systems using VCS. Another thing to note is that the range of cluster IDs is not limited to the old 0-255, it is now 0-65000 some odd number. Getting too old to remember large numbers like that. _ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Andrey Dmitriev Sent: Friday, March 02, 2007 1:23 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Veritas-ha] VCS with Blades If you do over public. Make sure your cluster ID is unique, and maybe node IDs too across different clusters on the network/subnet. That bit us on an older version of VERITAS Cluster (1.3) -a _ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Stanley, Jon Sent: Friday, March 02, 2007 10:51 AM To: Kiss László - Károly; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Veritas-ha] VCS with Blades I know that in HP blades you can put in mezziane cards that give you additional ports beyond the on-board (they have two slots, so you could put in a dual-channel FC card, I think, and a quad-port Ethernet adapter). I think that you *can* use the public network for LLT, not sure if this is actually supported or not for anything other than a lowpri link. _ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kiss László - Károly Sent: Friday, March 02, 2007 10:23 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Veritas-ha] VCS with Blades Hi, Does anyone have experience using VCS with IBM Blades? Especially with Blade LS21? We are just planning to use this hardware and the first problem is the lack of resource for heartbeat link. The Blade has only 2 network ports and both are used for the public network so no interface remains for the heartbeat private network. Is there any other choice for the heartbeat link than private network? Thanks. Best Regards, Laszlo _ Don't get soaked. Take a quick peak at the forecast http://tools.search.yahoo.com/shortcuts/?fr=oni_on_mail#news with theYahoo! Search weather shortcut. http://tools.search.yahoo.com/shortcuts/?fr=oni_on_mail#news ___ Veritas-ha maillist - Veritas-ha@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-ha
Re: [Veritas-ha] VCS with Blades
No need for node ID to be different, but cluster ID must be managed. Newer releases of VCS allow up to 64k cluster numbers if I recall correctly. [Sent from my Nokia E62 handheld via goodlink] -Original Message- From: Andrey Dmitriev [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 02, 2007 10:33 AM Pacific Standard Time To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Re: [Veritas-ha] VCS with Blades If you do over public. Make sure your cluster ID is unique, and maybe node IDs too across different clusters on the network/subnet. That bit us on an older version of VERITAS Cluster (1.3) -a _ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Stanley, Jon Sent: Friday, March 02, 2007 10:51 AM To: Kiss László - Károly; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Veritas-ha] VCS with Blades I know that in HP blades you can put in mezziane cards that give you additional ports beyond the on-board (they have two slots, so you could put in a dual-channel FC card, I think, and a quad-port Ethernet adapter). I think that you *can* use the public network for LLT, not sure if this is actually supported or not for anything other than a lowpri link. _ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kiss László - Károly Sent: Friday, March 02, 2007 10:23 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Veritas-ha] VCS with Blades Hi, Does anyone have experience using VCS with IBM Blades? Especially with Blade LS21? We are just planning to use this hardware and the first problem is the lack of resource for heartbeat link. The Blade has only 2 network ports and both are used for the public network so no interface remains for the heartbeat private network. Is there any other choice for the heartbeat link than private network? Thanks. Best Regards, Laszlo _ Don't get soaked. Take a http://tools.search.yahoo.com/shortcuts/?fr=oni_on_mail#news quick peak at the forecast with theYahoo! http://tools.search.yahoo.com/shortcuts/?fr=oni_on_mail#news Search weather shortcut. ___ Veritas-ha maillist - Veritas-ha@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-ha
