Installation/Upgrade Issues

Perform Cluster Pre-upgrade from an NT Workstation

You must run the Deployment Manager option to prepare your cluster for an upgrade from an NT workstation rather than from a Windows 9x workstation.

Also ensure that your cluster-enabled volumes are in the Running state. Use Cluster View in ConsoleOne^TM to check the state of each corresponding cluster volume resource.

Shared Cluster Volumes Disabled in NetWare Deployment Manager

Shared volumes are disabled after you complete the Prepare a Novell Cluster for Upgrade step in NetWare Deployment Manager. Once the upgrade to NetWare 6 is complete, the shared volumes are re-enabled.

Do Not Create Traditional Volumes during Cluster Upgrade

Do not create new traditional volumes on NetWare 5 servers when upgrading a cluster from NetWare 5 to NetWare 6.

After one NetWare 5 server in the cluster is upgraded to NetWare 6, upgraded NSS volumes on shared storage might appear as free space in a traditional partition. Creating a volume on the free space will corrupt the NSS volume.

NSS volume corruption occurs if all of the following conditions exist on your system:

• The Prepare a Novell Cluster for Upgrade option in the Deployment Manager was run and completed.
• At least one of the NetWare 5 servers in the cluster was upgraded to NetWare 6.
• One of the NetWare 5 servers not yet upgraded was rebooted and an attempt was made on that server to create a traditional partition using NWCONFIG.

Unable to Authenticate to a New Node during Installation

When using NetWare Deployment Manager to install a new node into a cluster, you might not be able to authenticate to the new node. If this happens, map a drive from the workstation running Novell Client software (right-click the red N) to each node in the cluster and then repeat the NetWare Deployment Manager steps to install the node into the cluster.

Directory Tree Not Visible during Installation

When running the Cluster Services installation, you occasionally might be unable to see the eDirectory^TM tree you want to install into from the installation browser. If this happens, type the name of the tree in the browser path: treename/cluster.context.