The basic design is to have VCS manage virtual IP (VIP) resources that can failover between nodes and to add extra code into the steps used to handle these resources to properly handle the NFS level operations. All other involved resources are active on all nodes participating. The lock data, which is saved into a shared area, is managed and used in lock-step with the virtual IP resources to ensure that all locks are reclaimed properly by clients while preventing any inappropriate locks from being taken at the wrong time. Such interfering locks are prevented through a combination of stopping services and using new features of the lock handling inside the VxFS kernel code.

To communicate with the new code in the kernel, the fsclustadm command has been modified to add command line interfaces to the private ioctl calls.