Document revision date: 19 July 1999
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Guidelines for OpenVMS Cluster Configurations


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D
Data
    access in OpenVMS Cluster environments
    availability
    backup
    redundancy
Data center systems
    uses
Database systems
Databases
    backup
    storage requirements
DEC Rdb for OpenVMS
DECamds
    for OpenVMS Cluster availability
    operations management
DECevent
    for OpenVMS Cluster availability
    predicting failures
    with volume shadowing
DECnet--Plus System Services (DSS)
    See DECnet software
DECnet software
    DECnet--Plus network transport
    DECnet--Plus System Services (DSS)
    OpenVMS Cluster alias
DECram for OpenVMS #1
DECram for OpenVMS #2
DECram for OpenVMS #3
Departmental systems
    uses
Device IDs
    configuring for SCSI
    Fibre Channel
        storage adapter
        storage adapter names
        storage devices
        WWIDs
    HSZ allocation classes
    multipath
        parallel SCSI
    node allocation classes
    port allocation classes
    See also SCSI disks
Differential signaling
    for SCSI
DIGITAL ACMSxp software
Disaster-tolerant OpenVMS Cluster configurations
Disk cache
Disk servers
    failover
Disk striping
    See RAID
Disk technologies
    RAID controllers
        SCSI storage
    See also RAID
Disks
    availability #1
    availability #2
    availability #3
    backing up
    caches
    data
        shadowing
    estimating requirements
    page and swap
    performance optimizers
    RF series
    SCSI
        accessing SCSI
        concepts
        configuration requirements
    solid-state
Distributed job controllers
    See Job controllers
Drivers
    DKDRIVER #1
    DKDRIVER #2
    DUDRIVER #1
    DUDRIVER #2
    Ethernet E*driver
    FDDI F*driver
    FG*driver
    MCDRIVER #1
    MCDRIVER #2
    PADRIVER
    PBDRIVER
    PEDRIVER #1
    PEDRIVER #2
    PG*DRIVER
    PIDRIVER
    PK*DRIVER
    PMDRIVER #1
    PMDRIVER #2
    PMDRIVER #3
    PNDRIVER #1
    PNDRIVER #2
    port
    TUDRIVER
DS3 communications service
DS3 intersite link specifications
DSGGA multimode Fibre Channel switch
DSSI (DIGITAL Storage Systems Interconnect)
    adapters
    definition
    highly available OpenVMS Cluster systems
    limits
    OpenVMS Cluster configurations
    supported storage devices
E
ELANs
    bandwidth
    bridges
    packet loss
    packet sizes
    PEDRIVER
    propagation delays
    queuing delays
    retransmission timeout rate
    ring latency
    traffic isolation
Environment files
    managing
Environments
    common #1
    common #2
    multiple #1
    multiple #2
Error-handling requirements
Error log entries and OPCOM messages
Ethernet
    advantages
    between two FDDI interconnects
    booting LAN segments
    extended LAN guidelines
    Fast
    fifty-one node OpenVMS Cluster
    Gigabit
    guidelines
    multiple
    satellite limit
    scaling
    six-satellite OpenVMS Cluster #1
    six-satellite OpenVMS Cluster #2
    throughput
    traffic considerations
    twelve-satellite OpenVMS Cluster
Ethernet-to-FDDI bridges
EXPECTED_VOTES system parameter #1
EXPECTED_VOTES system parameter #2
F
Failover
    definition
    direct SCSI to direct SCSI #1
    direct SCSI to direct SCSI #2
    direct SCSI to direct SCSI #3
    direct SCSI to MSCP served #1
    direct SCSI to MSCP served #2
    direct SCSI to MSCP served #3
    HSx modes
        multibus #1
        multibus #2
        multibus #3
        multibus #4
        transparent #1
        transparent #2
    multipath
        how performed by OpenVMS
    multiple access paths
    OpenVMS Cluster mechanisms
    planning for #1
    planning for #2
    planning for #3
    transparent
Fast Ethernet
FDDI (Fiber Distributed Data Interface)
    advantages #1
    advantages #2
    Alpha workstations
    definition
    multiple paths
    multiple-site OpenVMS Clusters
    scalability
    throughput
Fibre Channel addressing #1
Fibre Channel addressing #2
Fibre Channel configurations
    adding a node to an OpenVMS cluster system
    booting
    configuring host connections
    configuring logical units
    displaying information
    dual-ported storage controllers
    dumping
    enabling clustering
    multipath
    online reconfiguration
    OpenVMS SHOW DEVICE command
    path identifiers #1
    path identifiers #2
    requirements
    restrictions
    shared FC system disk
    wwidmgr command
Fibre Channel devices
    dual HSG80 controller
        setting to multibus failover mode
    host adapter
    HSG80 controller #1
    HSG80 controller #2
        setting to SCSI-3 mode
Fibre Channel disks
    booting
    dumping
Fibre Channel interconnect #1
Fibre Channel interconnect #2
    supported media
Fibre Channel switch #1
Fibre Channel switch #2
Fibre Channel WWIDs
    See Device IDs
        Fibre Channel
Files
    environment
    hot
    page and swap
    storage requirements
    system and environment
Floor space requirements
    storage
Foreign devices
    bus resets


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