Guidelines for OpenVMS Cluster Configurations

Index

• Adapters
  • add-on SCSI
  • integral SCSI
  • SCSI
• Allocation classes
  • setting for SCSI configurations #1
  • setting for SCSI configurations #2
  • setting for SCSI configurations #3
• Alpha systems
  • specifications
• ARC console
• ATM communications service
• ATM intersite link specifications
• Availability
  • disk
  • in CI OpenVMS Cluster systems
  • in disaster-tolerant BRS systems
  • in DSSI OpenVMS Cluster systems
  • in LAN OpenVMS Cluster systems
  • in MEMORY CHANNEL OpenVMS Cluster systems
  • in multiple-site OpenVMS Cluster systems
  • in satellite OpenVMS Cluster systems
  • SCSI storage
  • storage optimizers
  • strategies for maintaining
  • through selection of MOP servers

• Backup
  • strategies in an OpenVMS Cluster
• Batch queues
  • sharing clusterwide
• Booting
  • cross-architecture
  • sequence for LAN
• Bridges
  • Ethernet-to-FDDI
• BRS (Business Recovery Server) #1
• BRS (Business Recovery Server) #2
  • disaster-tolerant systems
  • operations management stations (OMSs)
• Business Recovery Server
  • See BRS

• CI (computer interconnect)
  • adapter
  • advantages
  • capacity planning
  • definition #1
  • definition #2
  • highly available OpenVMS Cluster systems
  • OpenVMS Cluster configurations
  • storage
  • supported storage devices
  • volume shadowing guidelines
• CIPCA adapter
  • configuration requirements
  • features
  • sample configurations
  • technical specifications
• Clusters
  • See OpenVMS Clusters
• Clusterwide process services
  • role in OpenVMS Cluster
• Common-environment OpenVMS Cluster systems
• Communications services
  • ATM in OpenVMS Cluster system
  • DS3 in OpenVMS Cluster system
• Computers
  • See Systems
• Configurations
  • building SCSI OpenVMS Cluster systems with DWZZA converters
  • building with add-on SCSI adapters
  • building with an HSZ40 controller
  • building with BA350/BA353 StorageWorks enclosures
  • building with internal SCSI adapters
  • installing SCSI OpenVMS Cluster systems
  • multihost SCSI access on OpenVMS Cluster system
  • SCSI concepts
  • SCSI hardware
  • SCSI interconnect requirements
  • SCSI OpenVMS Cluster systems
  • single-ended and differential SCSI signaling
  • single-host SCSI access on OpenVMS Cluster system
  • troubleshooting SCSI OpenVMS Cluster systems
  • unique SCSI device IDs
  • using CLUSTER_CONFIG for SCSI OpenVMS Cluster systems
  • WANs
• Connection manager
  • role in OpenVMS Cluster
• Controllers
  • HSZ40 controllers
• Converters
  • using DWZZA in SCSI OpenVMS Cluster systems
• Cross-architecture booting

• DECnet--Plus System Services (DSS)
  • See DECnet software
• DECnet software
  • DECnet--Plus System Services (DSS)
• DECram for OpenVMS
• Device IDs
  • configuring for SCSI
• Differential signaling
  • for SCSI
• Disaster-tolerant BRS systems
• Disk striping
  • See RAID
• Disk technologies
  • RAID controllers
    • SCSI storage
  • See also RAID
• Disks
  • accessing SCSI
  • availability
  • estimating requirements
  • performance optimizers
  • SCSI
  • SCSI concepts
  • SCSI configuration requirements
• Distributed job controllers
  • See Job controllers
• DS3 communications service
• DS3 intersite link specifications
• DSSI (DIGITAL Storage Systems Interconnect)
  • limits
  • OpenVMS Cluster configurations
  • supported storage devices
• DSSI interconnect
  • adapters
  • definition

• Environment files
  • managing
• Error-handling requirements
• Error log entries and OPCOM messages
• Ethernet
  • advantages
  • definition
  • extended LAN guidelines
  • guidelines
• Ethernet-to-FDDI bridges

• Failovers
  • definition
  • OpenVMS Cluster mechanisms
• FDDI (Fiber Distributed Data Interface)
  • advantages
  • definition
  • multiple paths
  • multiple-site OpenVMS Clusters
• Files
  • storage requirements
• Foreign devices
  • bus resets

• Grounding
  • SCSI requirements
  • troubleshooting

• Hardware
  • add-on SCSI adapters
  • BA350/BA353 StorageWorks enclosures
  • DWZZA converters
  • HSZ40 controllers
  • in SCSI OpenVMS Cluster systems
  • integral SCSI adapters
• Host IDs
  • configuring for SCSI
• Hosts
  • in an OpenVMS Cluster system
• Hot files
  • analyzing activity of
• Hot plugging (SCSI devices)

• I/O throughput
  • disk technologies
• Installations
  • configuring SCSI node IDs
  • SCSI OpenVMS Cluster systems
• Interconnects
  • accessing SCSI storage over
  • ATM
  • CI
  • corresponding storage devices
  • definition
  • DS3
  • DSSI
  • MEMORY CHANNEL
  • mixed
  • multiple
  • SCSI #1
  • SCSI #2
  • troubleshooting SCSI
• Intersite link specifications #1
• Intersite link specifications #2

• Job controllers
  • role in OpenVMS Cluster

• LANs
  • adapters
    • multiple
  • configurations
  • multiple-site OpenVMS Cluster
  • segments
    • multiple
    • three in OpenVMS Cluster configuration
• Load balancing
  • definition

• Managing multiple sites
• MCDRIVER
• MEMORY CHANNEL
  • adapter
  • addressing
  • comparison with SMP
  • comparison with traditional networks
  • configuration examples
  • configuration requirements
  • definition
  • drivers
  • features
  • global writes
  • hardware
  • implementation
  • in OpenVMS Cluster architecture
  • limits
  • Page Control Table
  • product overview
  • supported CPUs
  • system programming interface #1
  • system programming interface #2
  • technical overview
  • three-node OpenVMS Cluster
• Migration support
• Mixed-architecture OpenVMS Cluster systems
  • See also Cross-architecture booting
• MSCP servers
  • role in OpenVMS Cluster
  • served packets
• Multiple-environment OpenVMS Cluster systems
• Multiple-site OpenVMS Cluster systems
• Multiple system disks
  • advantages

• Network File System (NFS)
  • server software
• Nodes
  • in an OpenVMS Cluster system

• OMS (operations management station)
  • with Business Recovery Server
• OpenVMS Cluster systems
  • CLUSTER_CONFIG.COM
  • components
    • hardware
    • operating system
    • software
  • configurations
    • general rules
  • DECnet--Plus requirement
  • determining business requirements
  • dividing
  • hosts, nodes, and computers
  • installing SCSI
  • planning for future expansion
  • SCSI configuration requirements
  • SCSI hardware configurations
  • SCSI performance
  • SCSI storage connected to a single host
  • SCSI storage connected to multiple hosts
  • SCSI storage interconnect
  • shared SCSI storage concepts
  • tools and utilities
• Optimizers
  • disk performance
  • storage availability

• Parameters
  • setting SCSI
• Performance
  • data transfer rates
  • SCSI storage
• Performance requirements
• PMDRIVER
• Polling parameters
• POLYCENTER Console Manager
• Print queues
  • sharing clusterwide
• Process quotas
  • increasing

• Quorum disk
  • strategies

• RAID (redundant arrays of independent disks)
  • disk striping (level 0) #1
  • disk striping (level 0) #2
  • disk striping (level 0) #3
  • disk striping (level 0) #4
  • disk striping (level 0)
    • hot files
  • SCSI storage
• Rdb
  • See Oracle® software
• Redundant arrays of independent disks
  • See RAID
• Requirements
  • Bellcore Communications Research
  • OpenVMS Cluster
• RMS
  • role in OpenVMS Cluster

• Satellites
  • definition
• Scalability
  • definition
  • in CI OpenVMS Cluster systems
  • in DSSI OpenVMS Cluster systems
  • in MEMORY CHANNEL OpenVMS Cluster systems
  • in OpenVMS Cluster systems with satellites
  • in SCSI OpenVMS Cluster systems
  • planning an OpenVMS Cluster
  • strategies for achieving
• SCSI bus
  • See SCSI interconnect
• SCSI disks
  • accessing
  • configurations requirements
  • modes of operation
  • unique device IDs
• SCSI interconnect
  • adapters
  • ANSI standard
  • arbitration rules #1
  • arbitration rules #2
  • bus resets #1
  • bus resets #2
  • cabling and termination
  • concepts
  • configuration requirements
  • configurations using add on SCSI adapters
  • configurations using an HSZ40 controller
  • configurations using BA350/BA353 StorageWorks enclosures
  • configurations using DWZZA converters
  • configurations using integral SCSI adapters
  • configuring device IDs
  • configuring SCSI node IDs
  • configuring with CLUSTER_CONFIG.COM
  • connected to a single host
  • connected to multiple hosts
  • control of
  • data transfer rates
  • definition
  • grounding requirements
  • hardware configurations
  • hot plugging devices with
  • installation
  • maximum distances
  • maximum length
  • number of devices supported
  • performance
  • power up and verify
  • show and set console parameters
  • storage
  • supported devices
  • TERMPWR line
  • troubleshooting
• Shadowing
  • See Volume Shadowing for OpenVMS
• Single-ended signaling
  • for SCSI
• Small Computer Systems Interface
  • See SCSI
• SONET OC-3 Intersite Link Specifications
• Specifications
  • Alpha systems
  • VAX systems
• State transitions
  • guidelines
• Storage
  • CI-based
  • determining availability requirements
  • DSSI-based
  • performance optimizers
  • space requirements
• Storage capacity
  • definition
• Storage devices
  • corresponding interconnects
  • estimating capacity requirements
• Storage requirements
  • capacity
  • of OpenVMS operating system
  • page, swap, and dump files
• StorageWorks
  • BA350/BA353 enclosures
  • definition
• Striping
  • See Disk striping
• Symmetric multiprocessing
  • See SMP
• System Communications Services
  • See SCS
• System disks
  • multiple
  • single versus multiple
• System files
  • managing
• System management
  • methods and tools
  • multiple-site OpenVMS Cluster systems
• System parameters
  • for OpenVMS Clusters with satellites
  • polling
• SYSUAF.DAT files
  • multiple

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