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Servers - Installing StandbyServer for OS/2 Warp on LAN Server Advanced systems
Applicable to: World-Wide
Requirements/Preinstallation Checklist:
Before beginning the installation make sure the following requirements are met:
General Prerequisites:
- The standby machine must have at least two physical disk devices one to hold the boot partition and local partitions, and one to be exported to function as part of the mirrored pair.
- There must be enough disk space on the disk devices in the primary machine to hold all data to be mirrored from the standby.
- The number and type of partitions on the boot disk devices of both the primary and standby machines must be identical to ensure that the drive letter assignments are consistent after failover.
- Each machine must be properly installed and configured to function as a file server on the network, including software and LAN adapters.
- The LAN cards and connecting cable that will function as the Vinca link must be available. These cards can be Vinca's proprietary cards or PRO/100 fast Ethernet cards.
- Each machine must meet the following minimum hardware requirements:
16 MB RAM minimum
386 CPU minimum
250 MB or larger drive recommended
SVGA monitor preferred
OS/2 version 2.1 or higher
- All data should be backed up before beginning this installation.
LAN Server Advanced-Specific Requirements:
- The LAN Server Advanced software must be installed on both machines, and must not be mirrored. This duplication allows for LAN Server Advanced configuration variations based on hardware differences between the two machines.
- The disk devices to be mirrored must not contain a Boot Manager partition.
- LAN Server Advanced requires the mirrored drives to have identical geometries.
- LAN Server Advanced only mirrors HPFS partitions, not FAT partitions.
- Have a working knowledge of OS/2, FDISK (or FDISKPM), LAN Server Advanced, and NetFinity.
- Have the IBM documentation for OS/2, LAN Server Advanced, and NetFinity available.
- Depending on configuration, knowledge about the domain features of LAN Server Advanced may be required.
- The system must run LAN Server Advanced 3.0 or higher.
Using Hardware RAID Host Adapters:
Hardware-based RAID host adapters can be used in conjunction with StandbyServer. To use hardware RAID adapters with the Vinca products, the RAID adapters must have a native OS/2 driver.
These adapters can be a considerable help in configuring disk device systems to fit the requirement of having at least two physical disk devices in the standby and primary machines. Where RAID adapters are used, the phrase physical disk device is interpreted to mean that the operating system perceives any number of disk devices as a single physical device. The number of physical disk devices can be displayed by using the FDISK utility in OS/2.
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21-04-98 | |
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22-09-98 | |
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21-09-99 | |
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IBM PC Server | |
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Clustering | |
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Various | |
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