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HP Serviceguard Toolkit for NFS: customized for your unique environment

The HP Serviceguard Toolkit for NFS:

Allows you to use Serviceguard to set up highly available NFS servers.
Is easily customized for your unique environment
Includes special health monitors that provide continual watch over NFS services

What's new

The HP Serviceguard Toolkit for NFS has been enhanced to provide Modular Package support.

Business benefits

HP Serviceguard Toolkit for NFS (Network File Server) Toolkit uses HP Serviceguard to set up highly available NFS servers.

Technology advantages

An NFS server is a host that "exports" its local directories and makes them available for client hosts to mount using NFS. On the NFS client, these mounted directories look to users like part of the client's local file system. With HP Serviceguard NFS, the NFS server package containing the exported file systems can move to a different node in the cluster in the event of failure.

How it works

The HP Serviceguard Toolkit for NFS supports the following configurations:

Simple failover from an active NFS server node to an idle NFS server node.
Failover from one active NFS server node to another active NFS server node, where the adoptive node supports more than one NFS package after the failover.
A host configured as an adoptive node for more than one NFS package. The host may also be prevented from adopting more than one failed package at a time.
Cascading failover, where a package may have up to three adoptive nodes.

At a Glance

Supported nodes: HP Integrity servers, HP 9000 servers, HP Integrity VMs, vPars, and nPars
Supported versions of HP-UX: HP-UX 11i v3
Supported versions of HP Serviceguard: A.11.18, A.11.19. A.11.20
Filesystems: VxFS (non-CFS) and Veritas Cluster File System (CFS)

HP-UX 11i