Maintaining a Single TSAF Collection

When multiple TSAF virtual machines join to form a TSAF collection, efficiency is kept highest if the virtual machines are connected in a single TSAF collection. This efficiency is created by establishing multiple paths to the systems and enabling resources to be known throughout the TSAF collection. Also, when two multiple system TSAF collections try to merge, the process can be slow and involved as one of the collections will disband and join the other collection one system at a time.

This section provides two scenarios for keeping your TSAF collection as a single collection. This section also contains suggestions to simplify the tasks of adding a node to, or deleting a node from, a TSAF collection.

Note: TSAF collections that contain less than four systems may not see appreciable differences in efficiency, but the techniques that follow may be worth noting and following.