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VCS (Infoscale Availability) : How to online and offline resources

Resource online basics Resources are brought online automatically when the service group is brought online. They can also be brought…

VCS (Infoscale Availability) – Difference Between Frozen and TFrozen attributes

These service group attributes are used to indicate that the service group is frozen due to an administrative command. When…

VCS (Infoscale Availability) : How to freeze a Service Group

Why freeze the service group When you freeze the service group in VCS, it will continue to monitor the resources…

VCS (Infoscale Availability) : How to switch a Service Group

You can switch a service group between systems to test failover. This also comes handy also during a maintenance activity…

VCS (Infoscale Availability) : How to online and offline a Service Group

What happens when you online a SG - When a service group is brought online, all the resources in that…

VCS cluster 6.2 LAB : Installing VCS

If you have followed the first 4 posts of this series then you are ready to install the SFHA on…

VCS cluster 6.2 LAB : Configuring Open-E DSS

In the last post we installed the Open-e DSS V7 Lite software. Let us now configure it in order to…

VCS cluster 6.2 LAB : Installing Open-E DSS

One of the most important components of this lab setup is the shared storage. I will be using the software…

VCS cluster 6.2 LAB : Installing and configuring OEL

Installing the 2 nodes of the cluster The first step in the setup is to prepare the 2 nodes of…

VCS cluster 6.2 LAB with working I/O fencing : The setup

In one of my older posts I have configured VCS cluster home lab. The setup works fine but without I/O…