Preparing SFW for Microsoft Failover Clustering


Preparing SFW for Microsoft Failover Clustering
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This section provides information about preparing a cluster for CVM using the GUI-based SFW Configuration Wizard for Microsoft Failover Cluster and the CLI-based ffconfigcli utility. This prepares SFW for a Microsoft Failover Clustering environment.

Please note the following important information regarding using the wizard or utility:

All the nodes that participate in the CVM cluster must already be part of a Microsoft failover cluster.
InfoScale Storage must be installed on all the nodes participating in CVM.

Note:

InfoScale Enterprise is not supported for configuring CVM.
The Microsoft failover cluster service (ClusSvc) should be running on all the nodes in the cluster.
If you make any changes to the cluster network configuration of the Microsoft failover cluster after configuring CVM, then you need to unconfigure the CVM cluster and reconfigure it using either the wizard or the ffconfigcli utility.

Warning:

Please note that this requires application downtime.
If UAC is enabled, run the program or commands in the "Run as administrator" mode even if the logged-on user belongs to the local administrators group. Alternatively, log on as an Administrator (default administrator account) to perform the tasks.

For information about unconfiguring a CVM cluster,

Using the SFW Configuration Wizard for Microsoft Failover Cluster

From the Start menu (the Start screen on Windows 2012 operating systems), type Run, and then press Enter to open the Run dialog box.
In the Run dialog box, type scc, and then click OK to launch the Solutions Configuration Center (SCC).
From the Solutions view in the SCC, click on SFW Configuration Wizard for Microsoft Failover Cluster to launch the wizard.

The SFW Configuration Wizard for Microsoft Failover Cluster panel displays cluster and system (node) information and lets you configure or unconfigure systems for a CVM cluster as described below.

Fields	Description
Cluster Name	The automatically-assigned name for the CVM cluster configuration. This name is the same as that of the Microsoft failover cluster.
System Name	This table lists all the systems (nodes) that can participate in a CVM cluster. Select the required cluster nodes that you want to configure for CVM.
Configuration Status	The following configuration statuses are displayed: Configured: The node is configured in the CVM cluster. Not Configured: The node is not configured in the CVM cluster. Invalid Configuration: There are configuration issues with the node. Not Supported: Unsupported configuration. This is displayed if you don't select the Microsoft Failover Cluster option during the product installation.
Configuration Status Details	Displays CVM configuration status information for the selected systems.

To configure CVM, select one or more systems that are not yet configured and click Configure to configure CVM support for the selected systems.

Note:

Ensure that Microsoft failover cluster and CVM membership is same.

Note:

When you configure CVM for the first time, even if one system is selected, the wizard configures all the nodes, including those that are not selected.

Click Done to exit the wizard.