3. Managing the storage cluster¶
Before you create the storage cluster, you need to do the following:
- Configure your node network interfaces, as recommended in the Planning the network. You can also create bond and VLAN interfaces on each node, if required.
- Set up your networks and assign them to network interfaces.
- Configure an external DNS server, as described in Adding external DNS servers.
- Enable high availability of the management node, as described in Enabling high availability.
- Finally, ensure that the storage nodes are shown on the Nodes screen, and then proceed to create the storage cluster.
If you have remote iSCSI devices that you wish to connect to cluster nodes, you can configure them prior to cluster creation, as described in Connecting remote iSCSI devices to storage cluster nodes.
In this chapter:¶
- 3.1. Configuring node network interfaces
- 3.2. Managing networks and traffic types
- 3.2.1. Networks overview
- 3.2.2. Creating networks
- 3.2.3. Viewing network details
- 3.2.4. Renaming networks
- 3.2.5. Migrating networks
- 3.2.6. Deleting networks
- 3.2.7. Traffic types overview
- 3.2.8. Managing exclusive traffic types
- 3.2.9. Managing regular traffic types
- 3.2.10. Managing custom traffic types
- 3.3. Assigning networks to network interfaces
- 3.4. Managing node location
- 3.5. Creating the storage cluster
- 3.6. Connecting remote iSCSI devices to storage cluster nodes
- 3.7. Replacing node disks
- 3.8. Performing node maintenance
- 3.9. Shutting down and starting up the storage cluster
- 3.10. Releasing nodes from the storage cluster
- 3.11. Removing unassigned nodes
- 3.12. Re-adding unassigned nodes
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