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Guidelines for OpenVMS Cluster Configurations

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A
Access paths
    local adapter
    multiple
    system disk
Accounting utility
Adapters
    add-on SCSI
    CIPCA
    DSSI
    local
    MEMORY CHANNEL
    multiple LAN
    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 VAX systems #1
    coexisting with VAX systems #2
    coexisting with VAX systems #3
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 #1
    Alpha and VAX #2
    Alpha and VAX #3
    Alpha and VAX #4
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
    CI
    data
    data and applications
    disk
    failover mechanisms
    in CI OpenVMS Cluster systems
    in DSSI OpenVMS Cluster systems
    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
BNGBX-nn fiber-optic cable
Boot servers
    failover
    for satellites
Booting
    cross-architecture
    decreasing time with multiple system disks
    sequence for LAN
Bottlenecks
    reducing #1
    reducing #2
    reducing #3
Bridges
    between LAN segments
    Ethernet-to-FDDI
    limiting
Buses
    internal
Business applications
Business requirements
    availability
    budget
    determining
    future growth
    physical restrictions
    scalability
    security
C
Caches #1
Caches #2
Capacity planning
    availability considerations
    CI storage
    scalability considerations
CCL
    See Command Console LUN
CI (computer interconnect)
    adapter
    advantages
    capacity planning
    definition #1
    definition #2
    guidelines
    highly available OpenVMS Cluster systems
    load sharing
    OpenVMS Cluster configurations
    redundancy
    storage
    supported storage devices
    throughput
    volume shadowing guidelines
CIPCA adapter
    configuration requirements
    features
    in a CI cluster
    sample configurations
    technical specifications
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
Cross-architecture
    booting
D
Data
    access in OpenVMS Cluster environments
    availability
    redundancy
Data vaulting solution
Database systems
Databases
    storage requirements
DCL lexicals
    F$GETDVI
DEC Rdb for OpenVMS
DECamds
    operations management
DECevent
    use in Fibre Channel configurations
DECnet software
    DECnet-Plus network transport
    DECnet-Plus System Services (DSS)
    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
DIGITAL ACMSxp software
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
    RF series
    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
DSSI (DIGITAL Storage Systems Interconnect)
    adapters
    definition
    highly available OpenVMS Cluster systems
    limits
    OpenVMS Cluster configurations
    supported storage devices

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