Cluster configuration worksheet

Record your answers to the following planning questions before you set up the cluster configuration.

  1. What type of cluster solution best fits your business needs?
  2. What type of failover pattern do you need?

    The use of tape failover support also affects the pattern.

  3. Is tape failover support be needed?

    Consider how tape devices are used by the IBM Storage Protect cluster instances. The way that tape devices are used by cluster instances can limit the number of nodes in the failover pattern to two.

  4. What are the resources to be dedicated to IBM Storage Protect?
Resource type Resource name
Cluster Resource Group  
Physical Disk Resources  
IP address  
Subnet Mask  
Network  
Network Name (server name)  
Nodes  
Tape Failover (optional): device name - both nodes