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to another, changing existing cluster peer credentials, and generating a business continuity report
that provides cluster configuration and status information.
See the following sections for this additional information:
Section 2.6.1, “Migrating a Cluster Resource to Another Cluster,” on page 44
Section 2.6.2, “Changing Cluster Peer Credentials,” on page 45
Section 2.6.3, “Viewing the Current Status of a Business Continuity Cluster,” on page 46
Section 2.6.4, “Generating a Cluster Report,” on page 46
Section 2.6.5, “Disabling Business Continuity Cluster Resources,” on page 47
Section 2.6.6, “Business Continuity Cluster Console Commands,” on page 47
2.6.1 Migrating a Cluster Resource to Another Cluster
Although there is now an automatic failover feature for Novell Business Continuity Clustering, it is
recommended that you manually migrate resources from one cluster to another cluster. See
Appendix B, “Setting Up Auto-Failover,” on page 87
. If the node where a resource is running fails,
if the entire cluster fails, or if you just want to migrate the resource to another cluster, you can
manually start the cluster resource on another cluster in the business continuity cluster. If the source
cluster site fails, you will have to go to the destination cluster site to manually migrate or bring up
resources at that site. Each resource will start on its preferred node on the destination cluster.
TIP:
You can use the
cluster migrate
command to start resources on nodes other than the
preferred node on the destination cluster.
To manually migrate cluster resources from one cluster to another:
1
Start your Internet browser and enter the URL for iManager.
The URL is http://
server_ip_address
/nps/iManager.html. Replace
server_ip_address
with the
IP address or DNS name of the server that has iManager and the IDM preconfigured templates
for iManager installed.
2
Enter your username and password.
3
In the left column, click
Clusters
, then click the
BCC Manager
link.
4
Specify a cluster name or browse and select one.
5
Select one or more cluster resources, then click
BCC Migrate
.
6
Select the cluster where you want to migrate the selected resources, then click
OK
.
The resources will migrate to their preferred node on the destination cluster. If you select
Any
Configured Peer
as the destination cluster, the business continuity cluster software will choose
a destination cluster for you. The destination cluster that is chosen is the first cluster that is up
in the peer clusters list for this resource.
Migrating a pool resource to another cluster causes the following to happen:
1. If the source cluster can be contacted, the state of the resource is changed to offline.
2. The resource changes from primary to secondary on the source cluster.
3. Any SAN script that is associated with the pool resource is run.
