How This Book Is Organized

How This Book Is Organized

Chapter 1, 'Introduction to IBM High-Availability Cluster Solutions', provides an overview of high-availability cluster solutions.

Chapter 2, 'Preparing to Install a High-Availability Cluster Solution', provides the information you need to know before you start the installation and setup of a high-availability cluster solution.
It provides definitions of important terms used in this manual and some considerations you need to be familiar with for the ServeRAID adapter.

Chapter 3, 'Configuring the ServeRAID Adapter for the High-Availability Cluster Solution', provides the information necessary to configure the ServeRAID adapters in the two servers used in the high-availability cluster solution. Information also is provided for defining all shared and non-shared logical drives and setting Merge IDs.

Chapter 4, 'Installing a High-Availability Cluster Solution Using Windows NT', provides instructions for setting up a high-availability cluster solution with Windows NT.

Chapter 5, 'Installing a High-Availability Cluster Solution Using Vinca and Novell IntranetWare', directs you to the information needed to set up a high-availability cluster solution with Novell IntranetWare.

Chapter 6, 'Monitoring and Updating a High-Availability Cluster Solution', provides information on how to use the ServeRAID Administration and Monitoring Utility to determine the availability of logical drives in a cluster.
It also includes the procedures to use if you add or remove a hard disk drive to your high-availability cluster solution, or to uninstall your high-availability cluster solution.

Chapter 7, 'Troubleshooting a High Availability Cluster', provides information on how to recover from some potential problems, such as a defective ServeRAID adapter or a defective hard disk drive in a logical drive.

Appendix A, 'Notices', includes legal notices and trademarks.