Ari-
You do NOT need more than one volume on each filer to install a cluster. Your configuration is fine. The person you were talking to may have been thinking about snapmirror. That requires more than one volume to be successful.
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Jason Cody
Network Appliance Professional Services Engineer East Mid-Atlantic Region
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-----Original Message----- From: Ari [mailto:ari@genuity.net] Sent: Monday, April 17, 2000 8:31 AM To: toasters@mathworks.com Subject: Filer volume configuration question
Hi,
I am setting up a pair of clustered 740's for the first time and have a question.
Each filer currently has one disk shelf. 6 of the disks are in the root volume, /vol/vol0, and the 7th is a hot spare. Is this configuration OK for a clustered pair? I was told by someone that for a cluster, I would need 2 distinct volumes on each head, although I am not entirely sure why. If that is the case, how do I remove drives from the root volume so that I can add them into a newly created volume?
Any help is greatly appreciated.
Ari
Ari Globerman
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Cody, Jason