Updated: 11 December 1998

Guidelines for OpenVMS Cluster Configurations

D
Data
access in OpenVMS Cluster environments
availability
backup
redundancy
Data center systems
uses
Data disks
shadowing for OpenVMS Cluster availability
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 #1
Fibre Channel #2
port address
port WWID
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
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
definition
extended LAN guidelines
fifty-one node OpenVMS Cluster
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
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
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
dual-ported storage controllers
multipath
path identifiers
Fibre Channel controller
Fibre Channel interconnect #1
Fibre Channel interconnect #2
supported media
Fibre Channel switch
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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