Preparing Windows systems for a clustered environment

You can prepare a Microsoft Windows system to host an IBM Storage Protect clustered environment.

Before you begin

Complete the following steps:

1. Ensure that the Windows cluster service is installed.
2. Install the Cluster Management Command Line tool, cluster.exe, which is available from the operating system installation disk. On the Windows system, in PowerShell, run the following commands:

   PS C:\> Import-Module ServerManager
   PS C:\> Add-WindowsFeature RSAT-Clustering-CmdInterface

   Alternatively, run the following commands:

   PS C:\> Import-Module ServerManager
   PS C:\> Install-WindowsFeature -Name RSAT-Clustering-CmdInterface 

Complete the following steps:

1. Plan to host the server instance, the database, the logs, and the disk storage on shared disk.
2. Identify the disk resources to be dedicated to IBM Storage Protect. If you plan to install more than one IBM Storage Protect server, assign a different set of disks to each server.
3. Ensure that you have an IP address and network name for each IBM Storage Protect server instance that you plan to configure. For a cluster that involves two IBM Storage Protect cluster instances, you must have two network names.
4. Ensure that you have an IP address and network name for the cluster.
5. In the Windows cluster manager, create a cluster resource group and move disk resources to it. Each IBM Storage Protect server instance requires a cluster resource group. Initially, the group must contain only disk resources. You might choose to rename an existing resource group that contains only disk resources. IBM Storage Protect will be installed to a local disk on each node in the cluster.
6. Determine the disk to be used on each node. Plan to use the same drive letter on each system.