PRIMECLUSTER Global File Services Configuration and Administration Guide 4.2 (Solaris(TM) Operating Environment)

16.2 Resources Required for the Management Partition

The GFS Shared File System requires, in addition to the volumes that constitute the file system, one GDS Shared volume that is exclusively for the management partition for each cluster system. Even when using two or more file systems, the number of required management partitions is one.

The management partition uses disk space of forty megabytes. So, prepare a volume whose capacity is forty megabytes or more.

For details on how to set up the GDS Shared disk system, see the "PRIMECLUSTER Global Disk Services Configuration and Administration Guide."

The GDS volume which comprises the management partition should belong to a disk class of type "shared" and all the nodes that share the GFS Shared File System must be specified in the scope of this disk class. Also, the GDS volume must be set up to automatically activate when the node is started.

Set [ Exclusive use ] of the disk class use including the volume where the management partition exists to "no".
When the node starts, the volume state does not automatically become ACTIVE if the disk class including the volume where the management partition or GFS Shared File System exists by mistake is assumed to be RMS resource and Exclusive Use is set to the done mode. Therefore, the GFS Shared File Systems does not work.