B.5 December 2008 (NetWare 6.5 SP8)

Updates were made to the following sections. The changes are explained below.

B.5.1 Configuring Novell Cluster Services in a Virtualization Environment

This section is new.

B.5.2 Console Commands for Novell Cluster Services

This information was relocated from Managing Novell Cluster Services Clusters.

B.5.3 Installation and Setup

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Section 3.1, Requirements for Novell Cluster Services

Reorganized requirements under this topic.

Section 3.1.1, Hardware Requirements

Added an advisory about using similar hardware on each cluster.

Section 3.1.3, Configuration Requirements

This section is new. Information was reorganized from Software Requirements.

Section 3.1.4, Shared Disk System Requirements

Changed SBD partition size from 15 MB to 20 MB.

If you added new disks to the server that you want to use during the install, make sure to initialize them before you begin the install.

Section 3.3.2, Preparing a Shared Device for the SBD

This section is new.

Section 3.3.3, Running Novell Deployment Manager

This section is new. Information was reorganized from Running the Installation Program.

Section 3.3.4, Running the Installation Program

If the disk where you plan to create the cluster partition is not on list, you must abort the installation, initialize the disk, then run the installation program again.

B.5.4 Troubleshooting Novell Cluster Services

This section is new.

B.5.5 Upgrading NetWare Clusters

This information was relocated from Installation and Setup.

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Section 4.1, Converting NetWare Clusters to Linux

This section is new.

B.5.6 What’s New for Novell Cluster Services

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Section 2.1, What’s New (NetWare 6.5 SP8)

This section is new.