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Prepare the Shared Disk Manually in High Availability Environments

If the shared disk is of a format that is supported by , the High Availability (HA) configuration script prepares the shared disk, and you can ignore this section. See NNMi High Availability Configuration Information for more information about supported disk formats.

If the shared disk uses a non-tested configuration, such as disk formats supported by the HA product, you must prepare the disk manually. Enter the value none for the file system type during HA configuration, and then configure the shared disk and the NNMi HA resource group’s use of the shared disk.

Tip You can configure the disk before or after configuring the NNMi HA resource group.

To prepare the shared disk manually, follow these steps:

  1. Configure the shared disk as described in Configuring a SAN or a Physically Connected Disk.
  2. Configure the NNMi HA resource group to recognize the disk by completing both of the following procedures: