Guidelines for OpenVMS Cluster Configurations

1
10 Gigabit Ethernet
scaling
10Gigabit Ethernet
A
Access paths
local adapter
multiple
system disk
Accounting utility
Adapters
add-on SCSI
local
MEMORY CHANNEL
multiple LAN
SAS
SCSI
Advanced Server for OpenVMS
Allocation classes
HSZ #1
HSZ #2
node
port
with HSZ allocation class
setting for SCSI configurations #1
setting for SCSI configurations #2
setting for SCSI configurations #3
Alpha systems
coexisting with Integrity server systems
Alpha workstations #1
Alpha workstations #2
Applications
coding for high availability
requirements
Arbitration rules
control of SCSI bus
modifying the effect of
control of SCSI interconnect
ARC console
Architectures
Alpha and VAX
Integrity server and Alpha
Integrity servers and Alpha
Arrays
for scaling disks and tapes
ATM (asynchronous transfer mode)
communications service
intersite link specifications
AUTOGEN command procedure #1
AUTOGEN command procedure #2
AUTOGEN command procedure #3
Availability
after LAN component failures
backup copies
data
data and applications
disk
failover mechanisms
in LAN OpenVMS Cluster systems
in MEMORY CHANNEL OpenVMS Cluster systems
in multiple-site OpenVMS Cluster systems
in satellite OpenVMS Cluster systems
increasing boot servers
levels #1
levels #2
requirements
SCSI storage
storage optimizers
strategies for achieving
strategies for maintaining
system disk
through selection of MOP servers
volume shadowing
Availability Manager
for OpenVMS Cluster availability
B
Backup
for availability
importance of
redundancy
Bandwidth
in extended LANs
Batch queues
availability features
sharing clusterwide
Boot device paths
configuring on FC
Boot servers
failover
for satellites
Booting
decreasing time with multiple system disks
sequence for LAN
Bottlenecks
reducing #1
reducing #2
Bridges
between LAN segments
limiting
Buses
internal
Business requirements
availability
budget
determining
future growth
physical restrictions
scalability
security
C
Caches #1
Caches #2
Capacity planning
availability considerations
scalability considerations
CCL
See Command Console LUN
CIFS for OpenVMS
Cluster over IP
multiple-site OpenVMS Clusters
Clusterwide process services
role in OpenVMS Cluster
CLUSTER_CONFIG.COM command procedure
CLUSTER_CONFIG_LAN.COM command procedure
Command Console LUN (CCL)
setting device identifier
Common-environment OpenVMS Cluster systems
benefits
separate disk
Communications services
ATM in OpenVMS Cluster system
DS3 in OpenVMS Cluster system
Configuration requirements
Fibre Channel tape devices
Connection manager
role in OpenVMS Cluster
Controller-based cache
Controllers
disk caches
HSZ40 controllers
scaling
Converters
using DWZZx in SCSI OpenVMS Cluster systems
D
Data
access in OpenVMS Cluster environments
availability
redundancy
Data vaulting solution
Databases
storage requirements
DCL lexicals
F$GETDVI
DECamds
operations management
DECevent
use in Fibre Channel configurations
DECnet software
DECnet-Plus network transport
OpenVMS Cluster alias
DECram for OpenVMS #1
DECram for OpenVMS #2
DECram for OpenVMS #3
Device IDs
configuring for SCSI
Fibre Channel
storage adapter
storage adapter names
storage devices
tape devices
WWIDs #1
WWIDs #2
HSZ allocation classes
multipath
parallel SCSI
node allocation classes
port allocation classes
See also SCSI disks
Differential signaling
for SCSI
Disaster-tolerant OpenVMS Cluster configurations
Disk servers
failover
Disk striping
See RAID
Disk technologies
See also RAID
Disks
availability #1
availability #2
availability #3
caches #1
caches #2
data
shadowing
estimating requirements
page and swap
performance optimizers
SCSI
accessing SCSI
concepts
configuration requirements
solid-state
Distributed job controllers
See Job controllers
Drivers
DKDRIVER #1
DKDRIVER #2
DUDRIVER #1
DUDRIVER #2
Ethernet E*driver
FDDI F*driver
FG*driver
MCDRIVER #1
MCDRIVER #2
PADRIVER
PBDRIVER
PEDRIVER #1
PEDRIVER #2
PG*DRIVER
PIDRIVER
PK*DRIVER
PMDRIVER #1
PMDRIVER #2
PMDRIVER #3
PNDRIVER #1
PNDRIVER #2
port
TUDRIVER
DS3 communications service
DS3 intersite link specifications