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SRDF/CE GateKeeper Question
Two questions for anyone running SRDF/CE for MSCS regarding GateKeepers:
1. I have heard to provision 6 GateKeepers per cluster node. I also have heard to provision 6 GateKeepers per cluster node and per cluster resource group. Does anyone have any insight on these two comments as to what _REALLY_ is recommended?
2. When assigning a LUN number to a GateKeeper, what best practices have you been following. We start from the 0FF and work down. Does anyone leave gaps between LUN numbers for each host to allocate to in the event additional gate keepers are needed or is that not necessary?
1. I have heard to provision 6 GateKeepers per cluster node. I also have heard to provision 6 GateKeepers per cluster node and per cluster resource group. Does anyone have any insight on these two comments as to what _REALLY_ is recommended?
2. When assigning a LUN number to a GateKeeper, what best practices have you been following. We start from the 0FF and work down. Does anyone leave gaps between LUN numbers for each host to allocate to in the event additional gate keepers are needed or is that not necessary?
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October 8th, 2007 19:00
1. 6 GKs for all groups.
2. 6 GKs shared to all HBAs in this cluster host. If not, then if 1 HBA lost connection and followed a server reboot, physical disk number may be changed on Windows! Then quorum disk # change may lead cluster group failed to move.
3. same as above reason, lower GK addresses are recommended;
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cluster node. I also have heard to provision 6
GateKeepers per cluster node and per cluster resource
group. Does anyone have any insight on these two
comments as to what _REALLY_ is recommended?
I did setup 4 or 5 SRDF/CE Microsoft clusters .. and they all have 6 GK for each node .. The customer seems to be happy ..
Maybe someone else have different experiences to share.
best practices have you been following. We start
from the 0FF and work down. Does anyone leave gaps
between LUN numbers for each host to allocate to in
the event additional gate keepers are needed or is
that not necessary?
It's simply your taste ..