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PRIMECLUSTER  Installation and Administration Guide 4.3
FUJITSU Software

6.12.2 Monitoring a Shared Disk

Note

If the I/O is overloaded, make sure to set a monitoring disk.

If a file system is overloaded, it may be determined that the monitoring with hvdet_gmount described above has an error.

In a system where the file system load is expected to be high, use a monitoring disk to detect access errors (including a cable disconnection) of shared disk units. Other file systems are not monitored so that a glitch can be avoided. In addition, a shared disk can be monitored per operation so that the setting of 2. Disk area (LU) below is recommended.

To remove a disk from being monitored for the operation, set the MonitorOnly attribute of a resource to "1."

  1. Shared disk device

    Access errors (including a cable disconnection) can be detected per shared disk device.
    For a single shared disk unit such as RAID as monitoring area, assign one disk area (LU) (for example /dev/sdf1). It needs 10 MB or more as a monitoring area.

  2. Disk area (LU)

    Access errors of a shared disk unit (such as LUN failure in addition to 1.) can be detected per operation.
    For a single disk area, assign one slice for monitoring (for example, if you use /dev/sdd11 and /dev/sde for the operation, assign /dev/sdd2 and /dev/sde2 for monitoring). It needs 10 MB or more as a monitoring area.