[Veritas-ha] Coordinator disks

2008-04-11 Thread Rongsheng Fang
Hi, Does anybody know how many coordinator disks the coordinator disk group can have? The VCS installation guide says 3, but doesn't say if more is supported. We currently have 3 coordinator disks configured for a VCS 5.0 MP1 cluster with IO fencing enabled. We will need to shutdown the

Re: [Veritas-ha] Coordinator disks

2008-04-11 Thread Jim Senicka
No. A. It must be an odd number. (otherwise no majority possible) B. You cannot add online. You will need to bounce the cluster (or at least the fence driver) to move to the new array Sent from my Nokia E62 handheld by goodlink. -Original Message- From: Rongsheng Fang

Re: [Veritas-ha] Coordinator disks

2008-04-11 Thread Joshua Fielden
3 *or more*, but they need to be an odd number, so minimize the amount of time they're even -- coordinator races are decided by holding a majority, so you have exposure while the total number of disks are even. Cheers, jf Sent by GoodLink (www.good.com) -Original Message- From:

Re: [Veritas-ha] Coordinator disks

2008-04-11 Thread Jim Senicka
Fence won't start if even. Sent from my Nokia E62 handheld by goodlink. -Original Message- From: Joshua Fielden [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, April 11, 2008 04:30 PM US Mountain Standard Time To: Rongsheng Fang; veritas-ha@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject:Re: