Veritas Cluster Server/High Availability (VCS/HA)

Glossary


Term
Definition
children resource
Resource that must be on-line before a parent resource can be brought on-line and taken off-line after the parent resource is taken off-line
cluster
multiple systems connected with a dedicated communications system and a shared storage system
failover
similar to switchover, but orderly shutdown is not possible, service group is just restarted on a different node
failover service group
service group that runs on one system at a time
hybrid service group
Behaves as a failover group within a system zone and behaves as a parallel service group across system zones.
node
a single system with in the cluster
orderly shutdown
unassign the virtual ip address, stop the application, deport the shared storage
orderly startup
import the shared storage, assign the virtual ip address and start the application
parallel service group
service group that runs on more than one node at the same time in the cluster
parent resource
Resource than cannot be brought on-line until the child resource is brought on-line and must be brought off-line before the child resource can be brought off-line
replicated data cluster (RDC)

resources
hardware or software that is part of the cluster.  Resources are started (brought on line), stopped (brought off line) and monitored.
service group
logical grouping of resources and resource dependencies
switchover
orderly shutdown of  a service group on one node and an orderly startup of the service group on a different node
system zones


Common Tasks

Listing the service group
Taking the service group offline